What kind of feelings does Fujian Tulou bring to you?

Speaking of pastoral buildings with a high degree of harmony between man and nature, many earth buildings emerge in my mind. Some are elegant, some are magnificent, some are elegant, and some are small and jasper, which naturally blend with green mountains and green waters, drawing a beautiful picture full of Hakka life.

I recall many experiences of pursuing earth buildings in Yongding and Nanjing. The most distinctive one is the time of Chengqi Building. The girl with colored beads was born and raised here, which narrowed the distance between me and earth buildings.

Chengqi Building is located in Gaobei Village, Gaotou Township, Yongding County. It was built in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. The whole building is arranged according to the Book of Changes and Eight Diagrams. In its heyday, it was the king of more than 80 households and more than 600 buildings. Issued by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications on 1986? Fujian folk houses? Stamps are designed as a link between the past and the future.

When we arrived, it was already near the Mid-Autumn Festival. There are few stars in the moon, and a cool breeze blows gently. Cai Zhu's parents prepared delicious food for us. Cai Zhu called us lucky to eat because her mother made taro buns. Taro steamed stuffed bun is one of Hakka's favorite and most distinctive foods. Taro and cassava flour are used as skins, and dried bamboo shoots and pork are used as stuffing. It usually takes Chinese New Year to eat. Caizhu's taro bag is also added with shrimp skin and fried duck eggs, which is more delicious.

Another dish I like is stewed peanuts, trotters and red dates in sea bowls. The most special thing is that this dish is made into sweet soup, pork knuckle sweet soup, which is my first time to eat. A plate of fried duck eggs, ducks raised by ourselves and fed by millet, are more fragrant than those bought in the market.

There are also celery fried winter bamboo shoots, all fresh vegetables just picked in their own fields. Caizhu advised us to eat more. I couldn't answer with food in my mouth and nodded frequently. Dad colored beads moved out of the old wine, medlar and some medicinal liquor brewed by herbs to persuade him.

Colorful beads tell us the story of a wonderful building while eating. Their ancestors migrated here from the stone wall two or three hundred years ago. The earliest Wuyun Building was bought from someone else's house. The ancestors had four sons, and gradually Wuyun Building could not accommodate another clan, so they built buildings such as Chengqi and Shize, which flourished in the local area.

The second generation has four sons, and the third generation has sixteen. My father, Caizhu, chimed in and passed it on from generation to generation. He then introduced the number of men in the fourth and fifth generations. I'm not sensitive to numbers, so I forgot after listening to them.

But to my surprise, he said that sixteen are boys and each family has four sons, so the family is not rich.

Shibi is a town in Ninghua, Sanming, Fujian. In the old society, it belonged to Tingzhou government. People usually think that Shibi is the first gathering place where Hakka ancestors migrated to Fujian, and it is the place where Hakka people formed. Since the Jin Yongjia period, due to many factors such as the war, the Han people in the Central Plains left their ancestral home in Heluo and moved south, crossing the Wuyishan Mountains to Shibi, building their homes with the help of Wuyishan, and living a stable life to stop the turmoil in the Central Plains. Later, the Hakkas in Shibi migrated many times in the long years, radiating to counties in Tingzhou and southern Fujian, until they formed a Hakka settlement in Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi, and even migrated to Sichuan and other places.

The oldest Wuyun Building was about 200 years old when Caizhu ancestors bought it. Now this 500-year-old earth building is uninhabitable, and only an 80-year-old man is voluntarily guarding it. Famous? Square and circle? Photographer Li Yuxiang's classic earth building photo was taken between Chengqi Building and Wuyun Building.

I met the old man. Once there was a typhoon, I stayed in the building for a long time and listened to many stories told by the old man. The old man sat on the wooden chair at the entrance of tulou and talked to me. He pointed to the green slate at the door and said, you see, it has been worn so flat for hundreds of years. Don't worry about the collapse of this building. I've been leaning like this since I was a child, and it's still fine now.

The traditional earth building inherited the ancient rammed earth technology in the Central Plains. It is made of raw soil, lime and fine sand by repeated mixing, kneading, ramming and tamping. Some also add brown sugar water and glutinous rice slurry to the soil to increase the hardness of the soil wall. For each rammed height, Chinese fir strips and old bamboo pieces are put in the soil wall as wall reinforcement to evenly distribute the load. So the wall built is more than ten meters high.

Another time, in Chengqi Building, another old man, a retired teacher of a local primary school, talked with me for a long time about the origin of Hakka earth buildings. He asked me, do you know why we Hakkas changed the earth building from square to round? I smiled and said nothing. I read some books about Hakkas, learned a little common sense, and didn't answer. I want to hear how ordinary Hakkas other than experts explain it.

The old man said that the advantages of circular architecture are: first, it can make full use of land; Secondly, you can try to avoid the darkness at the four corners of square buildings; Thirdly, circular centripetal force can better prevent earthquake and rain, and is also more conducive to unity; Fourth, the distance from the edge of the circle to the center of the circle is equal, which symbolizes complete equality. The old man made it clear that he showed me the profile of the tulou he painted.

After dinner, I went upstairs to sleep. Each family's kitchen and storage room are on the first floor, and the bedrooms are on the second and third floors. Before going to bed, my father pointed to the lintel of HongLing's package and said, Look, there will be a wedding here tomorrow. Oh, I am always so lucky.

The next morning, I woke up from my sleep. It should be around seven o'clock then. A burst of crackling firecrackers rang, and the bride was taken back! Dad told us that the bride is a foreigner, so the process of marrying the bride is relatively simple, which is not convenient for outsiders to see.

I imagined the girl from Jiangxi, standing at the door of Tulou, holding a handful of candy in her hand and holding her hand behind her, thus ending her girlhood and looking forward to a happy marriage. Behind her, a group of children are fighting for candy on the ground. And her children will also spend their childhood in this earth building.