A magical ancient house was discovered in Ningde, Fujian. It was built with bowl embryos and is still well preserved after 300 years.

Hello everyone, I am Xiao Zhou, a travel blogger who walks in the mountains of Fujian. Recently, I came to a remote fishing village in Ningde, Fujian Province, and found a house made of bowls that has been well preserved for 300 years, which is rare in the world.

In Feiluan Town, Ningde, Fujian, there is a magical century-old village. The building materials of this village are not stone, wood, or bricks. Instead, they use bowl embryos to build houses. They have survived for hundreds of years and have become a local A beautiful landscape.

When we arrived at the site, we could still vaguely see the ancient houses and walls built with pottery embryos in this village, but most of them were dilapidated and only a few were still well preserved.

As soon as you walk into this unique village, your eyes will definitely be attracted by this unique house. It is not made of traditional clay and stone, but is made of round "bowls" , one can’t help but wonder, what is the reason for this?

It is understood that this village has always been a poor village in ancient times, and the people lived in poverty. Until 300 years ago, a group of people from southern Fujian wandered here to make porcelain bowls and built many ceramic workshops, which promoted the rise of local overseas trade. From then on, the villagers of Wanyao Village began to live a prosperous life.

The locals discovered that when making pottery bowls, there would be a lot of bowl embryos left over. In order to save materials, they would take them home and use them to build their own houses. Some of the architectural ruins we saw before us were 300 years old. Those that have been passed down from ancient times to this day are still standing and are rare in the world, forming a unique ancient Fujian residence.

In fact, this kind of bowl is not a bowl used for eating in the true sense, but a tool for making bowls in the kiln, called a bowl embryo. The bowl embryo is cast in a high-temperature fire of about 1500 degrees Celsius, but it is usually discarded after two or three uses.

These round earthen bowls are stacked up in rows, mixed with soil to form the solid walls of the house, giving you a unique artistic atmosphere.

Wanyao Village is located at the junction of mountains and seas. Although its roots remain unchanged, it has dense pine forests and high-quality kaolin clay. Coupled with convenient shipping, it has been a good place for firing porcelain since ancient times. This attracts many The reason why the ancestors of the southern Fujian people migrated.

When the houses were piled up, they found that the effect was surprisingly good. The bowls forged at high temperature were very strong, neat and beautiful, and also had heat and sound insulation effects, keeping them warm in winter and cool in summer. Therefore, these old The house has been passed down from generation to generation.

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