Yongding Tulou is a memory of distant culture. The gray-yellow earth walls and messy stone piles are the mystery and magic precipitated by the running water by the village and the moonlight at the village head.
The ancient legend about Tulou: The birth of Tulou is closely related to the migration civilization of Hakka people. Hakka culture is the soul of Tulou. It is precisely around the core of Hakka that Tulou produces such a distinctive humanistic landscape. Yongding Tulou was born in the Song and Yuan dynasties and matured in the late Ming and Qing dynasties and the Republic of China. The Han Chinese who moved south from the Central Plains were unable to withstand the long-term intrusion of the frontier iron cavalry tribes. From the Western Jin Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, they migrated in batches from the Central Plains to live in the areas south of the Yangtze River Basin, and then continued to move south, forming a wandering landscape of Hakka scattered in many parts of the world.
Modern legend about Tulou: More than ten years ago, Americans discovered from photos taken by spy satellites that there were many circular buildings in the mountainous area at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi. They don't understand what these circular buildings are. According to military experts' analysis, they are very much like nuclear reactors. This alarmed the officials of the White House and the Pentagon! They sent nuclear experts, dressed as tourists, to visit Yongding County in western Fujian under the pretext of tourism. They discovered that they were huge earth buildings built by Hakkas during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Americans are amazed at the architectural art and use functions of these earth buildings, and they think this is another miracle in the history of ancient Chinese architecture. Some people even think it can be comparable to the Great Wall! After returning to the United States, they advertised that Hakka Tulou, which was not well known in China, became famous overseas. The American propaganda has attracted the attention of our Chinese compatriots. The cultural and cultural departments of Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi have organized field trips by experts and scholars in the fields of history, culture, architecture, and folklore. After in-depth research, they discovered that there are still such shining treasures hidden in such mountainous areas.
z1. Gaobei Tulou Group: Encounter with Tulou King
Landscape Evaluation: ★★★★☆
Tour Time: Half a day
Highlights:
z33, where the largest Tulou is located in Yongding, is high on the back of the lush woods and trees on the north side of the lush woods. The stream passes in front of the village from east to west, backed by mountains and water, and has a very good Feng Shui pattern. In the tulou group, the Chengqi Building, known as the "king of Tulou", can be regarded as the best tulou in Fujian in terms of form and scale! A jingle that is widely spread in Hakkas, "Four stories high, four circles inside, four hundred up and down; the circle is in the circle, the circle is round, and it has gone through the Cangsang for hundreds of years; the building is in the middle of the building, the sky is outside the sky, and the population is nearly 1,000. "This is the Chengqi Building. The Qiaofu Building on the side was built in 1962 by overseas Chinese capital. It is the youngest brother in the Tulou group.
1. "Tulou King" Chengqi Building
If you can only see one Tulou, then this choice is not "Chengqi Building". Chengqi Building is the round building with the largest number of circles. It consists of four concentric round buildings surrounded by rings, and is a typical interior corridor-style round building. The layout of the whole building echoes the Taiji, Liangyi, Sanyuan, Sixiang, Bagua, and 64 hexagrams of the innate sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes. Entering the building is like entering a labyrinth, which is indistinguishable from the southeast, northwest.
The equal settlement style of Chengqi Building is an example of the Hakka people living together. The couplet in the hall is the best illustration: one is born in a family, and there is not much closeness, why should we divide you and me; Living in the building, meeting in and out, it is most suitable to emphasize the legal relationship.
Chengqi Building is filled with a strong atmosphere of rural life, and it is even hailed as the "family city" by Japanese scholars. It is said that in its heyday, Chengqi Building once lived in more than 80 households with a total of more than 600 people, all of whom were of the same ethnic group. Even today with the great development of tourism, this place has not been swallowed up by tourism. The rooms in the building are still inhabited and used by locals, which can be described as "living historical heritage".
2. "Doctor Building" Qiaofu Building
Qiaofu Building was built very late and was donated by Haihua Overseas Chinese in 1962. It can be described as the youngest brother in the Gaobei Tulou group, showing his patriotism living abroad. Sincere feelings.
The origin of the "Doctor Building" is because there are 11 PhDs in this building.Well-known in the world. So far, in this earthen building, the strong cultural atmosphere can still be clearly identified.
Because Yongding is rich in tobacco leaves, the "homemade cigarettes" of Tulou has become a relatively special sight in the local area. For smokers, this has to be said to be a gospel.
3. View of Gaobei Village, Gaotou Township
Opposite view of Qiaofu Building and Chengqi Building in Gaobei Village.
Gaobei Village is certainly famous for the two famous buildings of "Chengqi Building" and "Qiaofu Building", but the village scenery of Gaobei Village is still worthy of our exploration. At the end of the village, you can find traces of history inadvertently.
Gaobei Village is not like a town, with clean and tidy streets. The gray-yellow walls and mottled gravel roads in the village seem to be "rusty in the earth" to outsiders. But without the hustle and bustle of the city, without the visual interference of urban reinforced concrete, what Tulou Village brings to everyone is absolutely pure visual aesthetic enjoyment. The fruit shop at the entrance of the village of
is very southern. The bunches of red bananas are quite fresh for tourists from the north.
2. Hongkeng Tulou Group: Come and "sleep" you
not far away. Landscape evaluation: ★★★★★
Tour time: One day
The highlight: Jiang Wen's "One Step Away" one of the filming locations
1. "Prince of Tulou" Zhencheng Building: The world heritage site
is known as the "Prince of Tulou". Its layout design has both the imprints of Suzhou gardens and the characteristics of ancient Greek architecture. It can be called a combination of Chinese and Western architecture. In 1995, its architectural model and the Temple of Heaven in Beijing participated in the "World Architecture Exhibition in Los Angeles, USA" as the representative of China's north-south circular architecture, which caused a sensation and was known as the "Pearl of Oriental Architecture".
Perhaps, in everyone’s impression, Tulou is just a world heritage site for "seeing". However, I would like to say that the true and correct way to open Tulou should be used to "live", which is also the original intention of their design. Locals say that the tulou was managed by people because it was inhabited, and it can last for hundreds of years. Many people go to the empty Tulou, but in the end they cannot escape the doom of collapse. "Zhencheng Building" is such a world cultural heritage that is open to tourists and can be used for tourists to live in. It is highly recommended for travel friends to come and feel the night of Xiatulou.
2. Kuiju Building: There is a temple in my house, and there is also a big theater
The small Kuiju building is not large in scale, but it took nearly five years to build it. The so-called "Sparrow is small but has all five internal organs", the small Kuiju Building is a collection of many traditional buildings, including an ancestral hall and a theater. Looking from a height, it looks like a mountain temple complex has lived in the Tulou home. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that "my family has a temple and a big theater".
3. Fuyu Building: The representative of the "Fu Di" earth building
Fuyu Building is very large in scale and high in form and level. In my opinion, it is very similar to the Fujian Tulou version of Shanxi Huangcheng Xiangfu and Qiao Family Courtyard. It is said that the building cost more than 100,000 Guangyang and it took three years to complete.
walked into the tulou, the hall was completely furnished in the northern Han style. The shape of the whole building is very special, like three mountains, implying the meaning of "three mountains" by the three brothers of the host.
4. The tulou group and primitive villages of Hongkeng Village are built along the river. There is a big banyan tree at the entrance of the village and a pond. The pattern of feng shui is excellent. There is also a Tianhou Palace at the entrance of the village of
, standing there quietly, mysterious and simple.
fade away the same uninspired tourist souvenirs from other scenic spots, and the local specialties sold in Hongkeng Village are quite grounded.
Hongkeng Village has an excellent view of the village. Streams and rivers pass through the village. The village is built on both banks of the river. The large and small, round and round earth buildings along the bank form a unique landscape.
Strolling in Hongkeng Village, from time to time you can find breathtaking rural scenes: either the life-like landscape in the earth building, or the earth building set up with the stream at the village head, or the withered private school in the village. Between ruined walls and gullies, you can always find a place that touches you
3. Nanxi Tulou Gully: The Tulou Great Wall in the Southland
Landscape Evaluation: ★★★★★
Tour Time: Half a day
Highlights: Jiang Wen "One Step One of the filming locations of "The Distance":
1. Jiaotang Village Lookout Tower: The best place to look at the Tulougou Great Wall:
The best view of Nanxi Tulougou should be obtained from the air. This should be the correct way to open it. Nanxi, originally a small stream in Hukeng Town. The countercurrent from Hukeng Town runs through the villages of Xiananxi, Xinnan, Nanzhong, Nanjiang and Shijia. A mountain bag in Jiaotang Natural Village can be said to be the best viewpoint overlooking Tulougou.
Yongding Hukeng Nanjiang Village can be described as a beautiful village in the Tulou ditch. The village is located between the ravines of the green hills, and Xihe is accompanied by the village. The 23 earthen buildings, the "daughter forest" and the terraced fields arranged among the mountains have witnessed the village's more than 400 years of history. The scene in Jiang Wen's "One Step Away" was filmed here when the handsome drove after his daughter.
boarded a viewing platform on a mountain bag in Jiaotang Natural Village, and looked around, I saw Yoyo Nanxi passing through a narrow valley, gurgling streams, green hills, and cascading terraces. On both sides of the Nanxi River, there are more than 100 earth buildings of different shapes, such as round, square, octagonal, hexagonal, triangular, D-shaped, elliptical, round front and rear, large or small, or tall or Low, gathering or scattered, inlaid in the terraced valleys, on the crooked river bank, like a rushing dragon, winding for more than ten kilometers, it is magnificent.
2. Nanjiang Village: The simple and tearful village
Because the river passes through the village, the most beautiful scenery of Nanjiang Village is almost all born out of the stream. The villages are built on the hills, and the highlands are undulating; the streams follow the topography, layered and jagged. A unique picture of rural life is slowly unfolding in this pattern.
Feng Shui is extremely important to the Hakka people. At the entrance of Nanjiang Village, we can also see the Tin Hau Temple built by the stream. The scene described by Taiwanese folk singer Wang Menglin in the "Temple Fair" "red candles burning with sandalwood, the Buddha is full of incense; praying for a good winter harvest and peace for the wanderers" is well commented here.
"The Hakka ancestors walked in such a hurry. Everywhere they went, they wandered as a guest with the hardships of wind and dust, floating a gradually thinning figure, until it disappeared in the quiet and deep black cloud and was tired and collected. They are all together. In the long night, one head follows the dawn. The footsteps traverse the stars and lightning, plate every beating note, and finally find the weight of human and living life."
For hundreds of years, the Hakka people have been for them. Proud of living in a big family, this is the proud living tradition they brought from the Central Plains. The dream that is immersed in the literati's desk sketch and hazy in the story of the grandmother, Jing is here to show real and clear, tangible and tangible. As TulouThe unique shape, magnificent momentum, and moisture-proof and shock-proof functions are known as the unique mythical residential buildings in the world.
"Why do I always have tears in my eyes? Because of my deep love for this land." The poet Ai Qing used his honest and simple language to express the Chinese people's nostalgia for the countryside, the land, and the homeland. It can be said that the people living in the village are the most precious wealth in a village. The traces of those years, the mottled history, and all the stories about the village are portrayed in the wrinkles and white hair of the old man...
4. Zhongchuan Ancient Village: Yongding's hometown of overseas Chinese
Landscape evaluation: ★★★☆☆
Visiting time: about 2 hours
biggest highlight: the famous hometown of overseas Chinese
Zhongchuan Ancient Village is located in Xiayang Town, Yongding. It is the hometown of famous overseas Chinese entrepreneur, newspaper and philanthropist Hu Wenhu in Nanyang. Create. The "Haw Leopard Villa" in the village is one of the three villas built by Hu Wenhu before his death (the other two are in Singapore and Hong Kong), and it has been listed as a heritage protection unit.
Linshui Old Street is the essence of Zhongchuan Ancient Village. Walking in the alleys, you are full of authentic ancient buildings. The residential buildings here are mainly earth buildings, either square or round, or high or low. A sense of simplicity is oncoming. The core of
village is an ancestral hall. It can be said that the strong Hakka culture is condensed in this small ancestral hall. In Zhongchuan Village, there is a peculiar phenomenon, that is, there are several times more overseas Chinese than there are in the hometown. Currently, there are more than 3,000 villagers in Zhongchuan Village, and there are about 15,000 overseas Chinese living overseas. The Hu Wenhu Memorial Hall, Tiger Leopard Tower, Hu Family Temple, and Zhongchuan Ancient Streets in the village attract tourists from all over the world.
V. Shuiyuan Tower: Day and Night of Hakka Tulou and Hakka Whole Cattle Feast
Landscape evaluation: ★★★★☆
Tour time: one night (dinner and accommodation can be solved here) The biggest highlight of
: taste the whole cow feast
1 The day and night of the Tulou
The day and night of the Yongding Tulou. If the Tulou in the daytime is a closed society with a strong taste of the market, then the Tulou at night is a mysterious space that makes people fascinated. The Tulou at night is not like a drunken fan of reading nightlife, nor does it have the feasting and feasting of Jiangnan Water Village at night. Some are more like greetings from different dimensions across time and space. Perhaps only in such an environment can we complete heart-to-heart exchanges and candid dialogue with history.
2. Hakka "all cattle feast"
this is the chaos into. However, the quality and taste of Mei Cai Kou Po in the countryside is really much better than that in the city. This is called meat!
Yongding Tulou "Full Cattle Banquet" is the most solemn table etiquette for Hakkas to entertain guests. A cow was used from head to toe, from inside to outside, all selected as food. In the past, the Hakka people lived in a trap, and the cow became the most valuable item of the family. Therefore, the whole cattle will be slaughtered for delicacies only during the holidays or when receiving important guests. Nowadays, the living conditions of the Hakka people have improved, but the cultural essence of the "full cattle feast" has been retained and gradually integrated into the lives of the people. Basically, every household can not do without cattle.Meat out. Therefore, when you come to Yongding, you must not only see the Tulou and live in the Tulou, but also have to taste the "Full Cattle Banquet" before you have been to Yongding.
6. Chuxi Tulou Group: Collision of Dry and Wet
Landscape Evaluation: ★★★★★
Tour Time: One day
The biggest highlight: The oldest "Jiqing Building" in Yongding Tulou, the biggest highlight of
: Jiang Wen "One Step One of the filming locations of "Remote", the red windmill
1. The Chuxi Tulou group
z5 This sharp contrast between dry and wet reaches its extreme in Chuxi and is very spectacular. However, after interviews, it was discovered that the conflict of interests between the people and the government has reached a point of intensification, and there have even been many conflicts. At present, the top-down elite development model of China's rural heritage protection and development has its drawbacks. World heritage in China, Chinese-style world cultural heritage is indeed a question worth pondering, and this is the main reason why I chose to stay for in-depth research!
2. The red windmill at the end of Jiang Wen's "One Step Away"
Chuxi Tulou Group is the main location for the ending plot of Jiang Wen's "One Step Away". The red windmill built in the mountains is the one that appeared in the movie! a step far! Tulou is only one step away from the blockbuster! Get up quickly and look at the domineering windmill.
3. Jiqing Building: Yongding Tulou is the oldest and most unique
Jiqing Building is a national key cultural relic protection unit. It is the oldest (built in 1419) and the most special (72 stairs) round earth building in Yongding. The wooden structure of the whole building does not need a single iron nail, and it has experienced nearly 600 years of wind, frost, snow and rain together with the raw soil wall nearly 2 meters thick.
4. Yu Qinglou: Tulou for tourists in Chuxi
For tourists who come to Chuxi, if the time is not so tight, it is recommended to stay at Chuxi for one night and choose Yu Qinglou near the river bank to stay at night. Sleeping on the river water. Like other habitable earth buildings, Yu Qing Building can be regarded as VIP treatment, and independent toilets are difficult to find in other earth buildings.
5. Village view of Chuxi Village
After reading this, you must have a general understanding of Yongding Tulou. If you have read this article carefully, I believe you should have good answers to questions such as "Which attractions should you visit", "How to plan your own travel route and time". The tulou is there, waiting for your arrival...
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