How to build Tulou Hotel

1, site selection and positioning. Before you build a tulou, you must first invite Mr. Feng Shui to choose the site. Most of the areas where Fujian Tulou is located are mountainous areas. How to choose an ideal living environment is very important, so geomantic omen is very popular in the area where Tulou is located. After the site selection, it is necessary to locate it specifically. Taking a circular building as an example, Mr. Feng Shui must first determine the plane position of the main entrance, that is, the midpoint of the threshold. Then use the compass to determine the central axis of the building, that is, the connecting line between the midpoint of the threshold and the midpoint of the back wall of the hall. At the end of the axis, a "Master Yang Gong" pile, namely a positioning pile, was erected, thus determining the position of the earth building.

2. Open the foundation. If a circular building is built, the scale, number of floors, number of rooms and radius of the circular building should be determined according to the size of the base, the possibility of financial and material resources and the number of rooms needed. It is not difficult to find the center of the circle along the central axis from the threshold. Draw a circle around the center of the circle with a rope and divide the bay, so that the axes of the inner wall and outer wall of the circular building can be determined. Then draw the gray line of the foundation trough according to the width of the foundation, which is "setting out". After the departure, we should choose an auspicious day to start digging ditches, which is called "digging foundation" locally. According to the local soil conditions, the foundation trench of earth building is generally dug to the old soil (hard soil), with a depth ranging from 0.6 meters to 2 meters. The width of the building foundation is basically the same as the foot of the wall, and some are slightly loose.

3, hit the stone foot. After the foundation trench is excavated, the foundation of the wall is padded and the foot of the wall is built, which is called "stone foot" locally. The foot of the wall is made of river pebbles or a piece of Shi Gan, and the inner and outer surfaces are bonded with mud. Looking at the existing earth buildings, we can find that the earth buildings in the early Ming Dynasty usually did not build stone walls, but rammed earth walls on the bridge deck. Later, the earth wall was covered with pebbles, which played a waterproof role.

4. Walk along the wall. After the foot of the wall is paved, the earth wall is built by tamping, commonly known as "walking the wall". On the eve of walking the wall, you should eat construction wine and set off firecrackers when you start walking the wall.

5. Provide a framework. Every time a floor-high earth wall is rammed, a groove should be dug at the top of the wall where the wooden keel of the floor is laid, and then the carpenter will erect a wooden beam. This process is called "framing". The first floor of the vertical column should be timed well, not necessarily more than the second floor. The column starts from the hall, and it is also necessary to paste couplets, set off firecrackers and make glutinous rice snacks to ensure that the column stands stably.

6. water. Generally speaking, large earth buildings can only be built once a year, and three or four-story earth buildings can only be built in three or four years. After tamping the top wall, cover it with tile roof, which is called "water outlet" locally.

7. Indoor and outdoor decoration. After the earth building is capped, the interior and exterior decoration work will take another year. Interior decoration includes floor, door and window partitions, corridor railings, stairs, ancestral hall decoration and so on. External decoration includes window opening, window frame painting, wooden window, gate, decoration entrance, building plaque, door couplet, abutment foundation, stone steps, etc. It usually takes four or five years to build a big earth building, and even more than ten years to build a big earth building.