What is the most famous building in Jiangmen, Guangdong?

The most famous building in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province is Kaiping Diaolou.

Kaiping City, located under the jurisdiction of Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, is a unique type of local architecture in China. It is characterized by the combination of Chinese and Western dwellings and has many styles such as ancient Greece, ancient Rome and Islam. In 2007, it was officially listed in the World Heritage List, and the World Heritage Conference assessed: "It can provide a unique witness for a fading civilization or cultural tradition."

Kaiping Diaolou, born in the late Ming Dynasty, is located in Kaiping City, Jiangmen. It is a multi-storey tower building integrating defense, residence and Chinese and western architectural arts. Kaiping is located at the remote junction of Xinhui, Taishan, Enping and Xinxing counties, and it is a place of "looking around". Once bandits were rampant and social security was chaotic, villagers built bunkers to prevent floods and bandits.

After the Opium War, Kaiping people went abroad in large numbers to make a living and gradually developed industries. During the Republic of China, in order to avoid bandits, overseas Chinese had to build towers when they returned to China to build new houses. At its peak, there were more than 3,000, and there are currently 1833. In 2007, "Kaiping Diaolou and Village" was officially listed in the World Heritage List.

Kaiping Diaolou is a material that rural people in China actively combine western architectural plastic arts with local architectural aesthetics, which reflects their self-confidence, openness and tolerance in dealing with foreign cultural innovation, and also contributes to the spread of foreign architectural plastic arts in rural China.