About Fujian tulou Fujian tulou, because most of them are from Fujian.
Built by Hakkas, it is also called "Hakka Tulou". Tulou originated in Song and Yuan Dynasties and matured in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China. Taking soil, wood, stone and bamboo as the main building materials, adding a certain proportion of sandy clay and clayey sand into unbaked soil, and tamping it with sandwich board to form a house with more than two floors.
Fujian Tulou includes Gaobei Tulou, Hongkeng Tulou, Chuxi Tulou, Xiang Yan Tulou and Zhen Fu Tulou in Yongding County, and Tianluokeng Tulou, Hekeng Tulou, Gui Lou, Huaiyuan Lou and Hua 'an in Nanjing County.
Tulou and tulou in the county. Eryi Building is located in Hua 'an.
Dida Village, Xiandu Town, Xiandu County is an outstanding representative of the ancient houses in Yuanshilou, China. Known as "the king of tulou" and "the treasure of the country". It is famous for its large scale, scientific design, reasonable layout and well-preserved, and is a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Fujian Tulou, as a proud architectural form of Fujian Hakka, belongs to Fujian.
Treasures in folk houses. At the same time, human factors are added, which can be called the epitome of the combination of heaven, earth and people. Dozens of families and hundreds of people go to the first floor together, which embodies the family tradition of Hakkas living in harmony. Therefore, a tulou history is a rural family history. Descendants of Tulou often can tell the origin of Kan Kan family without genealogy.
On July 6, 2008, it was officially listed in the World Heritage List at the 32nd World Heritage Conference held in Quebec City, Canada.
What are the main types of earth buildings? Square earth building.
Square earth building, referred to as "square building" for short, has many shapes, such as square, rectangle, zigzag, Japanese glyph, net glyph and so on. From the outside, the square building is surrounded by high walls, with regular and closed corners, and its defense function is very prominent.
Among the square earth buildings, the single-ring square earth buildings with three to four floors are the most, and a few are as high as five to six floors. The ground floor is used as a kitchen, dining room or living room, the second floor is used as a granary or bedroom, and the third floor and above are used as bedrooms. Large square buildings generally have four public wooden stairs, which are located at the four corners; Medium-sized square buildings generally have two wooden stairs, which are installed on the left and right sides of the gate; Smaller square buildings usually have a wooden staircase next to the entrance hall.
There are public facilities such as paddy fields, paddy fields, stone mills and wells in Daduofang Building, and private schools and simple stage in Dafang Building. The room allocation of residents in the building is usually from the first floor to the top floor with a vertical room for each household; There are also those that disrupt the staggered distribution, commonly known as "plum blossom room".
Among the existing square buildings, the oldest is Fuxin Building under Leihu Village, which has a history of about 700 years. The typical and famous square building is the cultural relic building of Shanghai Gaobei, which is a standard square building with a side length of 38 meters. The He Jiong Building in Li Meilin Mountain is the tallest square building in Fujian's earth building. It has been built in the swamp for more than 200 years and is still stable.
Round tulou
The round earth building is called "round building" for short, and Yongding locals call it "round building" or "round village". The characteristics of circular buildings are: the main buildings such as gates and ancestral halls are on the central axis, and the buildings on both sides are symmetrical, which is the same as other kinds of earth buildings. According to the number of rings, it can be divided into single ring and multiple rings.
Single-ring circular buildings generally have only two or three floors, with the highest five floors and a patio in the middle. Some are small and exquisite, such as Rongchang Building in Pengkeng, Guzhu, with a diameter of 20 meters, 12 bay and 2 floors, only 1 household. This pocket-sized round building can be called a round villa.
There are also relatively large ones, such as Fu Sheng Building of Chen Dongyan, which is 4 stories high and 84 meters in diameter, with 56 bays on each floor.
The multi-ring circular building is large in scale and complex in structure, which has both overall unity and local flexibility. The most common is that two rings, such as a lake pit, vibrate into a building. Of course, the building with the largest number of rings is Chengqi Building, which has four rings. The plane layout of the whole building echoes Tai Chi, Two Instruments, Three Elements, Four Images, Eight Diagrams, Thirty-six Weeks and Sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes.
Mansion-style earth building
Mansion-style earth buildings, also known as "Five Pagodas" and "Three Houses", are generally composed of "Three Houses and Two Falls".
The whole building has an obvious central axis, some are completely symmetrical and some are asymmetrical. The front hall (commonly known as the lower hall or hall), nave (commonly known as the middle hall) and the back hall (commonly known as the main building) on the central axis are called "three halls". The first two halls 1-2 floors, and the back hall 2-5 floors. Front hall and nave, nave and back hall, each with a row of horizontal houses separated by patios, are collectively called "Erluo". The whole building is rigorous and magnificent.
The traffic from Fuzhou is direct to tourists. You can take a bus from Fuzhou south and north to Longyan and Zhangzhou, and then transfer to Longyan-Yongding Tulou through train after arriving at Longyan bus station, more than once a day.
Visitors from Xiamen can take a bus to Hubin South Road in Xiamen, and to the major scenic spots of Tulou in Fujian.
To charter a bus/train/coach
If you find the car inconvenient, you can also charter a car. If others don't fight, it's all our own; Freedom to leave whenever you want and stop whenever you want; A few friends come out to play, and it is wisest to choose a chartered car.
With the team
If you want to have a good time, of course, it is recommended to travel with a group, so that you can spend more energy enjoying the scenery of tulou.