Where is Yongding Tulou in Fujian?
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 in xiazhai village, Lei Hu Town. It is the earliest existing tulou in Fujian. Built in 769 AD, it has a history of 1200 years, and it is the oldest one in Fujian Tulou Group.
There are many kinds of earth buildings in Yongding, which are divided into two systems: square buildings and circular buildings. Yongding is known as the China Hakka Tulou Museum without a gate. Among many earth buildings, the most representative ones are Wufeng Building, Dafang Building and Round Building.
Architectural characteristics of Yongding earth building in Fujian
Fujian tulou is built on the mountain with reasonable layout. It absorbs the "Feng Shui" concept of traditional architectural planning in China, adapts to the living and defense requirements of people living together, and skillfully uses the narrow flat land in mountainous areas and local building materials such as raw soil, wood and pebbles. It is a self-contained, economical, strong and defensive high-rise building type with great aesthetic feeling.
These unique residential buildings in mountainous areas have pushed the long-standing rammed earth technology to the extreme. Hakka is an important ethnic group in the Han nationality, and its ancestors came from the Central Plains. Due to wars and disasters, Hakkas have moved south on a large scale five times. Some of them moved to Fujian and formed Hakka clans.