This is an enclosed house in southern my country.
During the Jin Dynasty to the Tang and Song Dynasties, due to war, famine and other reasons, the Han people in the Central Plains of the Yellow River Basin were forced to move south. After five major migrations, they successively lived in the south. Because people already live in flat areas, they have to move to mountainous or hilly areas. Therefore, there is a saying that "there must be guests in the mountains, and if there are no guests, you can't live in the mountains." When local officials registered the household registration for these immigrants, they established them as "hakka" and called them "customers" and "Hakka". This is the origin of the name Hakka. In order to prevent the intrusion of foreign enemies and wild beasts, most Hakka people live together in groups, forming Weilong House, Zouma House, Wufeng House, Shiwei House, Four Corners House, etc. Among them, Weilong House has the most surviving and most famous buildings and is the Hakka building. The concentrated expression of culture. Weilongwu began in the Tang and Song Dynasties and became popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Hakka people use the most advanced techniques of the Han nationality in the Central Plains to combine the lifting beam style and the bucket style, and choose hilly areas or slopes to build dragon houses. The main structure is "one entrance, three halls, two rooms and one enclosure". Most of their residences are in remote and remote mountainous areas. In order to prevent the harassment of thieves and the exclusion of local people, the border inspectors built camp-style houses. They mixed lime into the soil, used glutinous rice and egg white as a sticky agent, and used bamboo. The earthen buildings were built with pieces of wood and wooden strips as ribs and bones, with walls 1 meter thick and over 15 meters high. Ordinary Weilong houses cover an area of ??8 or 10 acres, while large Weilong houses cover an area of ??more than 30 acres. It often takes five or ten years to build a complete Weilong house, and some even take longer. A dragon house is a huge Hakka fortress. There are multiple bedrooms, kitchens, large and small halls, wells, pig pens, chicken coops, toilets, warehouses and other living facilities in the house, forming a self-sufficient and contented social group. Regardless of the size of the Weilong House, there must be a field and a half-moon-shaped pond in front of the gate. The field is used for sunbathing, enjoying the shade, and other activities. The pond has functions such as water storage, fish farming, fire prevention, and drought prevention. Within the gate, there are three halls: upper, middle and lower. The left and right are divided into two or four chambers. They are commonly known as horizontal houses and extend backward. At the ends of the left and right horizontal houses, wall-shaped houses are built to surround the main house. There are more than ten small halls. There are more than twenty large rooms, and the one in the middle is the "Dragon Hall", hence the name "Weilong" house. Small dragon houses generally have only one or two dragons, while large dragon houses have four, five or even six dragons. There is a six-wall dragon house in Hualuodunluowu, Xingning. The unique characteristics of the enclosed house in architecture are that the north and south meridian is the central axis, the east and west sides are symmetrical, the front is low and the back is high, the priorities are clear, the location is orderly, and the layout is regular. The pond in front of the house and the "enclosure" behind the main hall "Dragon" is combined into a whole, with dozens or hundreds of living units centered around the hall and patio, suitable for dozens, more than 100 or hundreds of people living in the same house. The more sophisticated ones also have study rooms and martial arts practice rooms. The hall is breathtaking. The design and construction of Weilong House integrates science, practicality and ornamental value, showing the outstanding talents and superb skills of the Hakka ancestors. The Weilong House, together with Beijing courtyard houses, cave dwellings in Shaanxi, Guangxi's "bar-and-rail style", and Yunnan's "one seal", is called China's five distinctive residential buildings by Chinese and foreign architectural circles. Nowadays, the Hakka people have walked out of the closed Weilong House, walked out of the narrow mountain gate, and walked into the vast world. The Weilong House has become a historical relic and a unique landscape. Today, there are hundreds of Weilong houses preserved in Meizhou City within 40 kilometers of Meizhou city and suburbs