On each sampling occasion, mosquitoes were sampled simultaneously in all six sampling rooms of the hamlet.
It probably represents a thatch-and-daub building (30 m long by 5 m wide), at the center of a hamlet.
In 1700 this was a small rural village of perhaps thirty houses, scattered over a handful of distinct, tiny hamlets.
Each parish (an ecclesiastical unit) covered several dozen square miles, and included one or several main villages and a number of smaller hamlets and homesteads.
After being reduced to a hamlet, however, a change would have taken place.
Almost all the inhabitants are farmers dispersed in small hamlets of a few families each.
In the land registers and poll tax registers, the properties were named after the hamlet and given a unique number.
Newly appointed responsibility heads (baihu) and hamlet (zhai) heads were to work closely with a new line of troop posts linked with the main garrisons.
