Very special ancient building although it's dilapidated and left few old folks living there.

The Chuxi tulou cluster in Yongding Fujian is the most primitive and most Hakka-characteristic Tulou clusters. With a history of 600 years ago, the Xu clan's ancestors migrated to the mountains to build tulou in order to escape war and bandits. The ancient Chinese believed that the sky was round and the earth was square, so the Chuxi tulou clusters can be divided into two shapes; round and square.

It's a beautiful small village. The architecture is very unique and full of traditional Chinese culture. The most unique feature is that people actually live in those buildings and you can observe how they live their daily life! Besides, there are many restaurants in the village that offers delicious local dishes. The price is fair too, unlike many tourism attractions.

Of all the tulou the Chuxi is my absolute fav. It’s maintained to near original authenticity without the touristy add ons. The tulou buildings are a sight to behold. If your legs are up to it, do take the short hike up the hill for an exquisite view of the structures from a vantage point

An interesting cluster of Hakka traditional round houses. It is funny that the USA thought these were nuclear missiles war head when they first spotted them from the spy plane high in the sky.

Very beautiful tulou cluster, i wish i could spend more time here to explore around. Worth the visit

Fantastic place! I took mom and her friends, over 70 years old stayed at Tulou's traditional homstay a night. Drove from Meizhou 2.30 hrs and bought the ticket for person who not over 60 years old, probably about 120 yuan (I'm not sure, you should ask them when arrive). Quite easy to access here! The room has heater and air condition, water heater, and boiler. The bed is quite comfy but noisy a bit. (I recommend 3rd floors but you need to carry the baggage to the upstair by self) There is the restaurant for served Hakka food to guests also. You can sightsee around Tuluo and walk up to the top of hill (beat up your heart a bit) for check in to the top of view. ( the opposit side of Tuluo). Hope you all great trip to there.

Ancient

It's nice visiting and looking at these historical buildings

(Translated by Google) Earth building architecture is a living fossil of the wisdom of our ancestors! precious! How to revive the earth building life is a big question. come on! (Original) 土楼建築是先民智慧活化石！珍貴！如何讓土楼生活重現，這是大學問。加油！

Personally, I fell it is not really worth the trip into this building as I felt it was an intrusion into other's privacy. Just visiting and looking at the place from the outside is good enough.

(Translated by Google) If you're alone, the best way to see the scattered tulou is by taking a motorbike taxi on the back of a motorbike. It's probably something the locals do on their own, but they were very kind and it wasn't that expensive. (Original) 1人なら、散在する土楼を見て回るのには、バイクの後ろに乗るバイクタクシーがあります。多分地元の人が勝手にやってるのでしょうが、なかなか親切でそんなに高くなかった。

This is the famous UNESCO site of a Hakka village. The location on the satellite view is a bit off, but it's easy to locate it. I arrived by car with a local and there are good signs in English on the way and huge car park. Luckily, I was visiting it during the Spring Festival, I can imagine why the car park is so big - must be a rather popular spot. Better to get a combined ticket for other Tulou (called King of Tulou - you'd need to drive another 3km down the road to get there) and I ignored the local tourist guides and just bought a ticket at the ticket office. There's a walkway that leads to the village or you can take a taxi in a golf car (for extra charge). There are lots of Earth Houses and all of them are really authentic with real people still leaving. A local grandpa approached us at one of the main buildings and offered to let us upstairs (we paid 10 RMB per person and he didn't speak any English and I don't understand why is it not regulated in a UN site, but hey) and take pictures. Otherwise, there are local who don't let you go up (signs say you can't go up). There's one square shaped building where you can actually go up and it is designed to be a museum, there are some rooms with paintings and models, make sure you don't miss it. Amazing site if you like to explore history, really lets you to feel the life at the older times.

It's a great place to visit and explore for Chinese culture and World Heritage. Strongly recommend you to go in an off-season tourism period.

This village has several interesting Tulous. The one called Fuyulou is a unusual tripartite rectangular one. There is also a large round house called Zhenchenglou. We stayed in a guesthouse called Changdi Guesthouse within the Fuyulou. I think it was the best way to experience life in the tulou as well as to enjoy home cooked Hakka food. There are all kinds of interesting agricultural activities in the village. You can enjoy the local vegetables, mushrooms, tobacco, tea and fruits, all at very low cost. There is even a rice wine maker. For less than $9 we got a 2 hour tour of the roundhouses. Visiting this village was a highlight of our two weeks Fujian trip.

Great cultural heritage.

Great to be there.

(Translated by Google) It cost 20 yuan to ask the tour guide to explain. It is different from just walking around and looking at the flowers, so you can better understand the historical background of the earth building. It is worth a visit. (Original) 花了20元人民幣請導遊解說，有別於走馬看花更加了解土樓的歷史背景，很值得來一看。

(Translated by Google) The first time I went to Tulou was nearly 30 years ago. At that time, the earth buildings were still ordinary people's homes. The journey from Xiamen by car was bumpy and bumpy for most of the day, driving on winding mountain roads. Since then, I have been there three or two times. Now, with the expressway open, it only takes more than two hours to get there. In the high mountains of Fujian and Guangdong, there are some residential buildings of various sizes, round or square, with unique shapes. These are earth buildings, also known as enclosing buildings, which are a wonderful flower in Chinese architecture. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Han people moved south one after another to avoid war. In order to defend against wild beasts and fight against bandits, they relied on the mountains and local materials to design this architectural model that was suitable for living together as a group and could jointly defend against foreign enemies. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, During this period, this architectural model gradually matured and formed its current layout. The first floor is where the courtyard, ancestral hall, and kitchen are located. The second floor is used for storing grain and stacking farm tools. The third floor is for home bedrooms. There are no windows on the first and second floors, but there are gun holes and arrow holes. Above the third floor Open windows. The Hongkeng Earth Building Group, located in Hukeng Town, Yongding County, is an outstanding representative of earth building architecture. There are more than 40 earth buildings of different shapes and sizes built in different eras, as well as Lin's ancestral hall, temples, schools, etc. built along the river. , so spectacular. Among them, Zhencheng Building was built in 1912. It took 5 years to complete and cost 80,000 silver dollars. It was jointly built by Lin Hongchao, uncle and several brothers, the grandson of Lin Zaiting, the 19th generation of the Lin family. The Zhencheng Tower is a round tower with two concentric rings and a trigram shape, with carved beams and painted pillars. It is beautifully decorated, simple and elegant, and combines Chinese and Western styles. Therefore, it is called the "Prince of Earth Buildings". Kuiju Tower was built in the 14th year of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty (1834) and took nearly five years. The owner of the building, Lin Kuiyang, asked Wu Yifu, a Hanlin scholar from Meng Brothers, to design it. The building was built on the mountain, with a low front and a high back. It has a palace-like structure, with a high central hall and low sides. The building is connected to the ridge behind it. The couplet on the gate is inscribed: " The civilization of Kuixing Langzhao flourished, and the gathering of clans here brought a new atmosphere." The construction of Fuyu Building began in 1880, costing more than 100,000 Guangyang, and took three years to complete. It was designed by Zhang Xingbing, the prefect of Tingzhou, a friend of Lin Zhongshan, Lin Renshan, and Lin Deshan, the sons of Lin Zaiting. Its structure is a mansion-style structure, shaped like three A mountain implies the meaning of the three brothers. The main building on the central axis is low in front and high in back. There are two horizontal buildings with orderly height and clear priorities. The gate and surrounding walls are paved with river pebbles, integrating seamlessly with the surrounding environment. In July 2008, Fujian Yongding and Nanjing Tulou were successfully included in the World Heritage List. Time has passed and I went to Hongkeng again. I found that due to factors such as tourism development and commercial growth, the simplicity and ancient charm of Yongding Earth Buildings in the past have been greatly reduced, and the pastoral scenery and mountain scenery have also been greatly reduced, which is sad. (Original) 第一次去土楼，距今已经近30年。当年的土楼依旧是百姓人家，从厦门坐车一路颠簸大半天的时间都行驶在蜿蜒的山路间。此后，陆续去过三两次，如今，高速公路开通，只需要两个多小时就可抵达。 在福建、广东的崇山峻岭间，分布着一些大大小小或圆或方，造型独特的民居建筑，这就是土楼，也被称为围楼，中国建筑中的一朵奇葩。 宋元更替，汉人为了躲避战乱陆续南迁，为了防御野兽，对抗盗寇，依山就势，就地取材，设计出这种适应聚族而居，并且可以共御外敌的建筑模式，到了明清时期，这种建筑模式日渐成熟，形成目前的布局。一楼为庭院、宗祠、厨房的所在地，二楼用来贮藏粮食、堆放农具，三楼则是居家卧室，并且一楼、二楼不设窗户，但是设有枪孔、箭孔，三楼以上开辟窗户。 位于永定县湖坑镇的洪坑土楼群是土楼建筑的杰出代表，建于不同时代、形态各异、规模不一的四十多座土楼，以及林氏宗祠、寺庙、学堂等沿溪而建，巍为壮观。 其中振成楼，始建于1912年，费时5年建成，耗资8万银元，由林氏家族十九代林在亭之孙林鸿超叔伯数兄弟合资所建。振城楼系同心两环八卦形圆楼，雕梁画栋，装饰秀丽，古朴典雅，中西合璧，因此被称为 “土楼王子”。 奎聚楼建成于清道光十四年(1834年)，耗时近五年。楼主林奎飏请盟兄弟翰林学士巫宜福设计，该楼依山而建，前低后高，为宫殿式结构，中厅高，两厢低，楼宇与背后的山脊连成一体，大门对联题写：“奎星郎照文明盛，聚族于斯气象新”。 福裕楼于1880年开始兴建，耗资十多万光洋，经历三年时间才建成，由林在亭之子林仲山、林仁山、林德山的朋友汀州知府张星炳设计，其结构为府邸式结构，外形像三座山，隐含楼主三兄弟之意。中轴线的主楼前低后高，两座横屋，高低有序，主次分明。楼门坪和围墙用河卵石铺砌，与周边环境浑然一体。 2008年7月，福建永定和南靖土楼被成功列入世界遗产名录。 时过境迁，再次前往洪坑，发现由于旅游开发及商业增长等因素影响，今天的永定土楼昔日的质朴、古趣消减很多，田园景色和山野情趣也大打折扣，令人唏嘘。

A peaceful old village with daily life as usual. Good to go in the morning when the earth just wake up.

(Translated by Google) One of the Xiamen Tulou Group’s internal wooden buildings has square and round shapes. (Original) 廈門土樓群之一內部木製建築有方形圓形

(Translated by Google) Yanxiang Tower is located in Xinnan Village, Hukeng Town, Yongding District, Longyan City, Fujian Province, China. On January 20, 2001, it was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Fujian Province. In 2008, it was listed as a world cultural heritage as one of the typical representatives of Fujian earth buildings. (Original) 衍香楼位于中国福建省龙岩市永定区湖坑镇新南村。2001年1月20日公布为福建省文物保护单位。 2008年作为福建土楼的典型代表之一被列为世界文化遗产。