Yongding Tulou, also known as Tongzilou, is located in Yongding County, Longyan City, Fujian Province, on the southeast coast of China. The oldest is Fuxin Building, located in xiazhai village, Lei Hu Town, which is the earliest existing tulou in Fujian.
Yongding, a pure Hakka county, has the largest number of earth buildings in Fujian, with more than 23,000. It is a unique and magical mountain residential building in the world, and a wonderful work of ancient architecture in China. In July 2008, it was successfully listed in the World Heritage List.
Yongding earth building has a long history, unique style, large scale and exquisite structure. Earth buildings are divided into square, round, pentagonal, octagonal, sawtooth, sawtooth, diaojiao building and other internal types. Yongding County has 360 famous circular buildings and more than 65,438 square buildings.
The Cultural Value of Yongding Tulou
Hundreds of people live in a huge earth building, where people work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and their lives are orderly. Weddings and funerals, birth and death, follow the ancient tradition of our ancestors. This is the architectural reflection of the values produced under the social form with agricultural civilization as the main body in ancient China.
Yongding Earth Building is a Fujian Earth Building guided by the three pillars of China's ancient architectural theory: architecture, gardens and geomantic omen. Its structure and layout not only profoundly reflect the moral and cultural views of the Hakka people in Yongding, but also naturally incorporate the charm of many classical buildings in China, which is the life culture of ancient buildings in Yongding and China.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Yongding Tulou.