The enclosed house of Hakka culture in Meizhou

The distribution of Weilong-style enclosed houses is centered on Meijiang District, Meixian District, and Xingning in the hinterland of Meizhou where Hakkas live, and radiates to the surrounding areas, spreading to the Dongjiang River Basin and the Shenzhen area around the Pearl River Estuary. The Weilong-style enclosed house is the most numerous and grand-scale residential building among the Hakka houses in Guangdong. It integrates traditional etiquette, ethical concepts, yin and yang and the five elements, Feng Shui geography, philosophical thought, and architectural art.

The main body of the Weilong-style enclosed house is the main room. The so-called hall, that is, the central axis building is a square hall, with at least two halls and usually three halls. The halls are separated by patios. The upper hall is the ancestral hall, the middle hall is the meeting hall, and the lower hall is small in depth and rectangular. , for the foyer. There are ancestral halls on both sides of the main hall, usually separated by lanes into the bright room, the secondary room, the tip room and the end room. There are horizontal houses on both sides of the main hall, and a half-moon-shaped enclosure is built at the back to connect the horizontal houses, with a flower head inside the half-moon shape. There are two horizontal and one surrounding dragons, four horizontal and two surrounding dragons... The largest one is the ten horizontal and five surrounding dragons. Most of the Weilong-style enclosed houses are built against the mountains, with the front low and the back high, protruding from the central axis of the main hall, making it a spectacular sight. In front of the door is Heping, with a low wall and a half-moon-shaped pond in front. The overall shape of the dragon-style enclosure is round, like the Tai Chi diagram of yin and yang, which embodies the meaning of a round sky and a round place.

There are some dragon-style enclosed houses. For the purpose of defense, watchtowers are built in front and behind the outer horizontal house. The watchtowers are often one floor higher than the main house, so they are also called "four-cornered buildings" or houses with four watchtowers. Dragon style enclosure. The number of enclosures for a dragon-style enclosed house depends on factors such as the family's development status and terrain location. Generally, there is only one enclosure when it is first built, and it will continue to increase later.

Meizhou Hakka Weilong House is a famous residential building in my country. The most famous one is Huacalyx Tower in Dadong Town, Dabu County, Meizhou, adjacent to Fujian.

This is a full-circle earth building with a history of a thousand years. It is three stories high and houses more than 200 families living together (to avoid harassment from local people, no windows are opened to the outside.

There is only one gate, which is closed at night. When attacked, hundreds of families defend themselves together.) There are still several families living in it.

By being there, you can appreciate the difficulties and hardships faced by the Hakkas from the Central Plains to this barren land, and you can also understand the fighting spirit of the Hakkas all over the world.

. Mr. Zeng Xianzi, who founded Goldlion Company, is a representative of the Hakka people.