Where are Tulou located in Fujian?

Fujian Yongding Earth Building is located in Hongkeng Village, Hukeng Town, Yongding County, Longyan City, Fujian Province.

Yongding Earth Building, also known as Tongzi Building, is located in Yongding County, Longyan City, Fujian Province, on the southeast coast of China. The oldest one is Fuxin Building located in Xiazhai Village, Leihu Town. It is the earliest existing earth building in Fujian. Built in 769 AD, it has a history of more than 1,200 years and is the oldest among the earth buildings in Fujian.

There are many types of earth buildings in Yongding, which are divided into two systems: square buildings and round buildings. Yongding is known as the Chinese Hakka Earth Building Museum without a gate. Among the many earth buildings, the most representative ones are Wufeng Building, Dafang Building and Round Building.

The architectural features of Yongding Tulou in Fujian

Fujian Tulou are built along the mountains and have a reasonable layout. It absorbs the "Feng Shui" concept of traditional Chinese architectural planning, adapts to the living and defense requirements of people living together, and makes clever use of the narrow flat land in the mountainous area and local raw soil, wood, cobblestones and other building materials. It is a self-contained, economical, solid, and highly defensive type of high-rise building with great aesthetic appeal.

These unique mountain residential buildings push the time-honored rammed earth technology to its extreme. The Hakka people are an important ethnic group among the Han people, and their ancestors come from the Central Plains. Due to wars and disasters, the Hakka people migrated southward on a large scale five times. Some of them moved to Fujian and formed the Hakka clan.