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Introduce the Tulou :

1.Chuxi Earthen Building Cluster

Chuxi Earthen Building Cluster: Located at Chuxi Village, Xiayang Town, this building cluster consists of five round buildings and dozens of square buildings. Standing by the creek in a row are three massive round buildings and one square building, like uncut diamonds hidden amidst the deep mountains and lush trees, exuding unaffected elegance.

2.Gaobei Earthen Building Cluster


Gaobei Earthen Building Cluster: Located at Gaobei Hamlet Gaotou Village, this building cluster is dominated by the Chengqi Building, the most famous earthen building which is dubbed the ”°King of Round Buildings”± and has been designed as a key natural cultural heritage site. The hamlet is home to hundreds of earthen buildings nestled snugly between the mountains and the creeks. The ancient earthen buildings, including the long-standing Wuyun Building, bear witness to the entrepreneurship and wisdom of the Hakka people.

3.Zhencheng Building

Zhencheng Building: The earthen Princess Zhencheng Buidling was built in 1912. Its outer building has 48 rooms on each of its four floors. The rooms are divided into four grades according to the ”°Eight Diagrams”± with firewall in between; they form separate courtyards and are interconnected through doors, forming an integrated whole. The inner circle has two floors, housing an ancestral hall and rooms for social functions. The multi-ring concentric architectural structure is a mix of Chinese and Western architecture, making the building a gem of round earthen buildings.

4.Zhengfu Building

Zhengfu Building: Located by the South Creek at Hukeng Town, this building is a perfect fusion of human creation and natural landscape. The gate of the building faces the gentle and wide creek dotted by grotesque boulders. A stone arch bridge on the lower course of the creek links up the two banks where there are flat fields. The creek embankments are high and sturdy. Further down the bridge is a deep pond flanked by ancient banyan trees with massive canopies. The enchanting natural landscape, the zigzagging stream and the serene bridge combine to form an idyllic sight and turn the mystic oriental ancient castle into a paradise on earth.

5.The Viviparus Pit Earth Buildings Cluster The

The Viviparus Pit Earth Buildings Cluster (four vegetable one soup) the viviparus pit earth buildings cluster by 1 square shape, 3 circulars and 1 ellipse altogether 5 earth buildings was composed, the square shape the Buyun building and the upper right circular Hechang building is founded in Jiaqing first year (in 1796), later in peripheral one after another constructed the Zhenchang building, the Ruiyun building, the Wenchang building. Five earth buildings according to appearance of the mountain scattered about layout, in hills surrounds, the advantage bird's eye view, looks like the plum blossom which is in full bloom to embellish on the earth, is also likely the flying saucer drops from the clouds, the constitution humanities make the scenery which certainly the skill and the natural environment ingenious day becomes, makes one praise to the heavens, is the common people residence constructs in hundred gardens rare and beautiful flowers. In May, 2001 is included in the country key Cultural relic preservation organ.

6.The Eryi Earth Building

   The preservation is completest - - the construction, to decorate perfectly, is the scale is biggest until now, preserves most complete earth building

   The culture connotation to be richest - - the mural, the colored drawing on pottery, the woodcarving, the couplets hung in front to find at everywhere, being possible be called folk art treasure house

   The construction pattern is most unique - - the design science, the function to be complete, lives at the life, the fortification to unify the person to occupy

   The original ecology perfectly to be rarest - - the foundation earth building Jiang posterity, until now still lived together as an ethnic group in one community in the building

7.The Yuchang Building

The Yuchang building (extant the most ancient earth building in Nanjing County) constructed in 1350 Leaning Tower of Pisa is well-known the world. Its becoming famous, lies in slanting, but not actually. For more than 600 years, the tower body has inclined slowly to the south, nearly one century incline seemed to be potential of the acceleration, passes through in 1972 after particularly the big earthquake, its ascent nowadays has amounted to 8 degrees. Leaning Tower of Pisa's slanting, is tower body whole slanting. Se from the body, each structure is also horizontal even vertical, in gauge moment. Within the boundaries of the Nanjing County,Fujian,China, some endures the historic building which compares with the Leaning Tower of Pisa, it is known as ”°leans this way and that the building”± the Yuchang building. The Yuchang building is a circular earth building, constructs at the Yuan end beginning of Ming Dynasty, the construction age compares the Leaning Tower of Pisa only late several years. The Yuchang building altogether has five floors, auriculo-ventricular 270, from the third starts, in the building the winding corridor wooden pole then from left to right incline, the greatest ascent amounts to 15 degrees; But the fourth winding corridor's wooden pole from right to left inclines by the similar ascent reversed direction, two building's wooden poles seem lean this way and that. Crooked but if regards as to fifth wooden pole winding corridors a whole, the most base's wooden pole and the most crown's wooden pole actually maintains on the identical strip spool thread. The Yuchang building's slanting, is partial structure slanting, looks like today's CCTV new building, is shocking but not dangerous, slanting, but not danger.

8.The Hegui building

The Hegui building located at Pushan village, Meilin Town,Nanjing County, 53 kilometers far away Nanjing county. Constructs in Yong Zheng ten years the Qing Dynasty, occupying a land area of 1547 square meters, is the Nanjing's highest earth building . This earth building is on the swampy ground, cuts in line, the upholstery with more than 200 pine lumbers, was still steady after more than 200 years, preserves completely. In May, 2001 is included in the nation key Cultural relic preservation organ.