How about the ancient buildings in Tukeng Village?

The ancient building complex in Tukeng Village is a national key cultural relic protection unit.

The ancient building complex of Quangang Tukeng Village is located in Tukeng Village, Houlong Town, Quangang District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. It is an outstanding representative of the ancient Maritime Silk Road port city. The ancient buildings in Tukeng Village are arranged in a staggered manner with an orderly layout, roughly forming a four-horizontal and five-vertical street pattern. The main ancient buildings include: Million House, Zhongcuo Cloth Store, Chuanshengju (Yinglin), Bohe Mansion, Jianlong Mansion, Jiaju Food Store, Shibu Pawnshop, Zhaoyuan Jinshi Hall, and Changchun Hall. Medicine Shop (Jianlian Mansion), Wanjie Thirteenth Bank, Ancestral Hall Well, Jianjie Seafood Trading Company, Ligong Academy, Shunyu House (Duanshan Mansion), Jianzhen House, Laipu Pawn Shop, Embroidery House, Kaitai Jinshidi, Duanyu House (Dafeng Jinshidi), Sankongjing, Xiamen City Wharf, Baishi Palace, Shibukou Street and Citangkou Street, etc. Both were established in the mid-Qing Dynasty and were built successively by the Liu family, a local maritime merchant. The Liu family in Tukeng started in sea farming and developed in sea trade. The front door is a shop and the back door is a warehouse, which is used for both commercial and residential purposes. The arrangement is staggered and staggered, and the layout is regular and orderly. In addition to traditional southern Fujian practices, the content, themes and techniques of architectural decoration also incorporate Western, Southeast Asian and other foreign cultural factors, which are harmonious and unified with the overall intention of the building, and have the characteristics of southern Fujian's traditional red brick culture and maritime culture.

On October 7, 2019, the ancient buildings in Tukeng Village were selected into the eighth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Tukeng Village: Tukeng Village is located in the middle of Houlong Town, Quangang District, bordering Bixia Bay to the east, Fulian Living Area to the south, and Nanpu Town to the north, covering an area of ??approximately 1.6 square kilometers. The total population is more than 3,900 people. In 2003, it was approved by the Fujian Provincial People's Government as a provincial historical and cultural village. It is also one of the stronghold villages in the old revolutionary area of ??Quangang District. Tukeng has beautiful mountains and rivers, comfortable air, prosperous generations, and outstanding people. There are 27 ancient houses in the village, but nearly half of them collapsed and destroyed. There are 15 ancient houses that are relatively well preserved, basically all of them. It is a typical courtyard-style masonry and wood structure.

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