When is the right time to go to Zhangzhou Tulou?

The best time for Zhangzhou Tulou: the overall climate is mild and the rainfall is abundant, which belongs to the maritime climate. It's hot here in summer, and it's usually above 30℃ in July and August. The temperature in winter is often lower than10℃; The annual average temperature is 265438 0℃. The sunshine is long and sunny, so Xiamen is full of flowers and trees all year round.

Zhangzhou Tulou is located in mountainous areas such as Nanjing, Hua 'an, Pinghe, Zhao 'an, Xiao Yun and Zhangpu in Zhangzhou City. Because of its peculiar shape and unique style, it is known as the mythical mountain dwelling building. The earth buildings in Chen Yuanguang in the Tang Dynasty, formerly known as barracks, castles and bungalows, were the product of the special social environment in southern Fujian where foreign invaders and thieves clashed. Zhangzhou tulou is made of raw soil as the main material, with lime, fine sand, glutinous rice, brown sugar, bamboo chips, wood strips and so on. And it is usually three to five stories high. The first floor is the kitchen, the second floor is the warehouse and the third floor is the living room, which can accommodate 200 to 700 people. It has the characteristics of gregarious, anti-theft, earthquake prevention and animal prevention. There are nearly 2,000 tulou dwellings in Zhangzhou, and there are more than 300/kloc-0 in Nanjing County alone, which is called Tulou Kingdom. It is also the place with the largest number of earth buildings in the country.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Yuan people withdrew from the customs, but the coastal pirates and pirates repeatedly invaded Zhangzhou towns, looting and burning, and the people were in dire straits. Many villages imitate the acropolis model and gather together to build earth buildings for self-defense. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Zheng Chenggong led the army and the Qing army to fight a tug-of-war in southern Fujian. Many earth buildings and stone buildings were built by the people for settlement. The buildings in Zhangzhou are round, square, rectangular, oval, arc, octagonal, square and pentagonal, among which a large number are square buildings and round buildings. Tulou in Zhangzhou first appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, Yong 'an Building in Shi Qiaocun, Shuyang, Nanjing was built in the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, and Yuchang Building and Jiguang Buildings in Xiabanliao Village in Shuyang were built in the late Yuan Dynasty (about 1368), which has been more than 600 years since. According to the statistics of Nanjing County, there are 27 tulou buildings over 400 years old, 37 tulou buildings over 300 years old and 130 tulou buildings over 200 years old. The largest tulou is Yuchang Building, Shuyang Township. It is five stories high, with 54 rooms and 270 rooms on each floor.

The tallest earth building is the Plaza and Gui Building in Meilin Township, with five floors, 2 1.5m and * * * 140 rooms. Adobe houses are mostly located in slopes near mountains and rivers or valleys near streams, or in the geographical environment where mountains, water, fields and buildings blend together. The Tulou Formation of Tianliaokeng in Shuyang Township, Tulou Formation of Hekeng Village in Qujiang, Tulou Formation of Taxia Village, Tulou Formation of Xiaban Village and Tulou Formation of Houqiao Village are all surrounded by mountains and waters, with beautiful natural environment and unique rural scenery in southern Fujian. Huaiyuan Building Huaiyuan Building is located in Xiaokanxia Village, Meilin Township, Nanjing County, and was built in Xuantongyuan Year of Qing Dynasty (1909). It is a beautifully built and well-preserved medium-sized garden tulou. 1988 is listed as a county-level cultural relics protection unit. The building is 13m high and 38m in diameter. The bottom floor of the circular building is made of river pebbles and concrete, which is more than 3 meters high. The second floor above is an earth wall, which is very strong and firm. The circular building is open every 34 years, with 4 floors *** 136 rooms.

The room is 3. 1m wide and 3.5m deep. There are open corridors on the first to fourth floors, with sufficient light and good ventilation. There are many small windows on the fourth floor for defensive shooting. There are four outposts on the fourth floor, which highlight the defense function. The entrance of Huaiyuan Building is a circular patio. Opposite the gate is a four-cell, three-room ancestral hall called "Shi Si Room", which is also a private school for children to study. "Shi Si Stone" is exquisitely built, elegant and exquisite. There is a couplet on the seal script in the hall, which is engraved with gold: "When the moon passes, the flowers move, and the wind comes and goes. Books are eternal, flowers and trees are in spring. " "History of Shi Si" is full of scholarly atmosphere, which embodies the desire of "farming and reading". Huaiyuan Building was built by the Jane family. There are 18 households 1 15 people living in the building. Changyuanlou Changyuanlou is located in Shi Qiaocun, Shuyang Township, Nanjing County. It was built in the first year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1723). Changyuan Building is a square earth building, which is located on the bank of Xixi tributary of Jiulong River and built according to the slope of the river bank. Form green mountains and green waters, earth buildings and people's gardens. The wall of Changyuan Building near the stream is made of cobblestones along the stream bank. The central main building has only one floor, ten bays, three bays and thirteen bays, and its wings are composed of two and three floors, forming a square earth building with a low front and a high back. Locals also call it the "top floor".

In order to prevent foreign invasion, the first floor is closed around, and there is only one door on the left. There is a patio in the building, facing the patio, there is a ancestral hall in the middle, a kitchen and a warehouse on both sides, bedrooms on the second and third floors, and an open cloister, which has a wide view and excellent ventilation and lighting. The whole building of Changyuanlou conforms to the terrain and blends with the natural environment, which embodies the intelligence and skills of Tulou. Japanese architectural experts call Changyuan Building "Slope Earth Building". Domestic tulou scholars think it is a variant of Wufeng Tower. There are 30 people from 7 Zhang families living in 53 buildings in Changyuan Building, and the number of overseas Chinese in Taiwan Province Province or abroad of this building's descendants is far more than those who stay in their ancestral homes. He Jiong Building and Gui Building are located in Pushan Village, Meilin Town. They were built in the 10th year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1732) and are the tallest rectangular earth buildings in Nanjing County. The building is 5 stories high, 2 1.5 meters. 28 rooms on each floor, * * * 140 rooms. There is a gate in the middle of the building, and there are stairs up and down in the east, west, north and south.

The patio is paved with pebbles, and there is a well on the left and right, which is sufficient for the whole building to draw. In the center of the courtyard, there is a three-hall school. On the gate of the school, the words "prospering learning and benefiting the future" are written on a wooden board, which reflects the grand ambition of respecting learning and attaching importance to teaching and cultivating talents together with our ancestors. And your building is tall and magnificent, majestic and solid, quite like an ancient tower. There are 22 families living in the building, 120 people. Yuchang Building and Yuchang Building are located in the Festival Society of Banliao Village, Shuyang County. It was built in the late Yuan Dynasty, with five floors and 270 rooms. It is the oldest and largest circular building. The construction site was originally a swamp, which was dumped after completion and rebuilt after laying a large number of pine reinforcement piles. The thickness of the building wall is1.5m, and all the walls in the building are built with Chinese fir. Due to the age, the wooden pillars of the cloister in the building are partially inclined, but they can still withstand the test of repeated earthquakes.

There is a semi-circular two-story building in Yuchang Building compound. There are 13 wells in the building, all dug by the kitchen. When the water source is full, the bucket can be hoisted into the water one meter down. Yuchang Building is surrounded by mountains and waters, with a quiet environment. There are 18 households 1 10 people living in the building. Tianliaokeng Tulou Group Tianliaokeng Tulou Group is the most spectacular scenery among many tulou in Fujian. Its pictures have appeared in many media at home and abroad and are world-famous. The five earth buildings in Tianliaokeng are located on the hillside in the canyon, surrounded by terraces. Looking from the bottom up, five earth buildings are patchwork. Looking down from a height, the five tulou are like a four-petal plum blossom. In the middle is a square building, built in Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, named "Buyun Building", with 84 rooms on three floors. There are four round earth buildings around, called Hechang Building, Zhenchang Building and Wenchang? Ruiyun Building ". Built in 1952, 1930, 1966 and 1930 respectively.

"Wenchang Building" is an oval building with 96 rooms on the third floor, due to the terrain limitation and local conditions. This is the only oval earth building in Nanjing County 1000. The layout of Tianliaokeng Tulou Group is unique. Shiqiao Tulou Group Shiqiao Tulou Group is located in Shi Qiaocun, Shuyang, at the foot of Tian Ling Mountain. Nearly 20 square and round earth buildings are built on the slopes in the valley along the stream, which is a great landscape for building earth buildings according to the geographical environment. Guqiao Village has the oldest earth building "Yong 'an Building", the inclined earth building "Changyuan Building" which attracts many experts and scholars at home and abroad, and the largest round earth building "Yushun Building" in the county, with 288 rooms on four floors and a patio diameter of 59 meters. Hekeng Tulou Group Hekeng Tulou Group is located in Qujiang Hekeng Natural Village, Shuyang Township. There are fifteen new and old earth buildings with more than three floors, which are built on the gentle ground beside a stream less than one kilometer in Fiona Fang Valley, and are the most densely distributed places of earth buildings. Overlooking, earth buildings are dotted among beautiful mountains and rivers. It is another landscape of Tulou community. The second floor of the second floor of Dida Village, Xiandu Town, Hua 'an County is the first ancient round building listed as a national cultural relics protection unit. It is an outstanding representative work of Fujian Tulou, which was once called "the treasure of round buildings" by Taiwan Province United Daily News and han sheng magazine.

The gate of eryi building faces west, and the stone plaque on the threshold is engraved with the word "eryi building", each 40 cm square. Close to Zhao Ti but not gentle and charming, the thin golden body is slightly weak and unique. The word "21" has the meaning of "one Iraq landscape, one family history, one inside and one outside, one place in Xiong Yi, one son, one grandson, one thing in literature and art". This plaque has been included in the book "Famous Plaques in China". The Eryi Building is surrounded by mountains and waters, and there are many mountains behind it, and the nearby mountains fluctuate like centipedes. The terrain in front of the mountain is gentle and open, and two clear streams meet in front of the building and go straight to the southwest. Bridges, pavilions, bamboos and cottages are dotted with beautiful scenery. The green mountains and green waters complement each other with the yellow walls and black tiles of the building, so it is called "Yishan" Eryi Building, which was built in the thirty-fourth year of Qing Qianlong (1770) and was founded by Jiang Shixiong. He is the second child in the family, and he is an expert in land reclamation. He cultivated hundreds of acres of land in Anxi and Zhangping and accumulated some wealth. After getting married and having children, I want to build a foundation for future generations.

He hired a surveyor to choose this geomantic treasure for him, and it took him 12 years to build this building. The plane diameter of the building is 73.4 meters, the outer ring building is four stories high and the inner ring building is one floor. Divide it equally into 12 units except doors, halls and stairs. Today, it is well preserved and still lives in the Jiang family, with more than 220 people in 36 households. Its spatial structure is quite reasonable. The bungalow in the inner ring is "wearing the sky", with kitchen, dining room and living room. The first to third floors are bedrooms and warehouses, and the fourth floor is the ancestral hall with stairs up and down. The center of the building is the inner courtyard of a public place, covering an area of 600 square meters. There are only two wells and many stone pillars more than 2 meters high, which can dry clothes and crops. It has the advantages of two kinds of circular buildings: the inner corridor and the unit building. Wind-resistant, earthquake-resistant, warm in winter and cool in summer, both public and private, stable and comfortable, so it is called "livable and suitable room". The residents in the building are in their own world, the outdoor is the family world, and the outside is the green village. They work at sunrise, rest at sunset, and live an idyllic life, which is really "suitable for the inside and suitable for the outside".

Er Yi Lou "unifies the world and divides the space equally" in the architectural pattern, which is very conducive to the unity within the family and plays its functions of cohesion, unity, restriction and guidance. It is also appropriate to say that it is "suitable for older brothers" and "suitable for children and grandchildren". The outer ring building on the second and first floors is18m high. There are no windows on the first to third floors, only small windows and holes on the fourth floor, and the bottom wall is 2.5m thick. Dome-shaped doors are made of granite strips, with double door panels, riveted iron plates in the inner layer, double bolts behind the doors, and water and sand leakage devices at the top of the doors, which can prevent fire and attack. On the fourth floor, there is a "hidden corridor" running through the whole building between the mud wall and the board wall, and there are small doors communicating with the residents. The overall design is very scientific. The ancestral hall is located in an important position at the end of the central axis, with exquisite beams and columns, bright colors, and simple and simple in Central China. It is no exaggeration to say that it is suitable for literature and martial arts.