One-day tour guide to Kaiping Diaolou
One-day tour guide to Kaiping Diaolou recommends the famous toilets in Zili Village and Zuzhai Village.
1. Zili Village
Zili Village has 15 watchtowers of different styles, exquisite shapes and rich connotations. They are outstanding representatives of Kaiping watchtowers in their heyday. However, it seems that only Mingshi Tower, Ye Sheng Ju Lu and Lan Sheng Ju Lu can be visited. The most famous one is probably the Mingshi Tower. In the movie "Let the Bullets Fly", Huang Silang stood in the Mingshi Tower, observed through the telescope that the new county magistrate came to take office in Goose City, and shouted the classic line "Domineering exposed" .
2. Internet celebrity toilet in Zuzhai Village
“This is not just a toilet.” It was rebuilt on the original site and combined with the elements of rural revitalization and memory inheritance, and became a rural toilet. Internet celebrity check-in point. If you don’t have enough time, you don’t have to check in.
The cultural value of Kaiping Diaolou
The Kaiping Diaolou most typically represents the characteristics of overseas Chinese culture in China. Overseas Chinese are the communicators of culture, and the blending and collision of various Chinese and foreign cultures are its development It is an inevitable product, and the cultural conflict it brings will inevitably touch all aspects and all strata of traditional Chinese society. This is also the unique law of immigrant culture in the world. This kind of cultural conflict and integration is extremely externalized in Kaiping. Still maintaining its own tradition, vernacular architecture that integrates Chinese and Western architectural cultures is rare in rural areas and is mainly found in counties and towns.
Kaiping Diaolou embodies the traditional environmental awareness and Feng Shui concepts of the overseas Chinese people. It is a beautiful combination of planning, architecture, natural environment, and humanistic concepts. Diaolou, a single building, is mainly distributed behind the village and with the surrounding areas. The bamboo forest, the pond in front of the village, and the banyan tree at the entrance of the village form a harmonious environment with deep roots, luxuriant leaves, peace, wealth, and cultural prosperity.
The combination of dotted watchtowers and clusters of residential buildings serves as a backer for the whole village in the plain area, satisfying the villagers' need for safety and protection. The transition from low to high from residential houses to watchtowers expresses the villagers' desire to "promote step by step."
The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Kaiping Diaolou