There is a mysterious building in western Fujian, all built with adobe, round. Some people say that since the days of fall from the sky like a "flying saucer", some people say underground emerge as the "mushroom", in fact it is the Hakka Earth. Hakka Earth Buildings is a pearl of oriental civilization, is unique in the world of the mythical mountain village residential buildings, is a wonderful work of ancient Chinese architecture, it has a long history and unique style, large-scale, structure and other characteristics delicate alone in the world forest of residential architecture.
By the end of 2001, we are starting from Shenzhen, after nearly 14 hours of the difficult road, and finally to a concentration of Hakka Earth Building - West Fujian Yongding, the county has a round floor 360, a square floor, more than 4,000 blocks. Especially in the most rich in strange circular Tulou Hakka traditions, the most shocking people. Round Earth Building Hakka houses a model rated best in the world floor.
The beginning of a round floor guest house, giving the feeling often is: a entered the gate, immediately enter the circle into the sky, the roof under the roof line of sight can not help with the circled an instant feel like being in the ancient Roman theater, there is an involuntary the feeling of dizziness. Into the inner courtyard, space unexpectedly bright and open, feel and appearance are completely different. Internally composed of slender wooden structure surrounded by a ring, filled with soft light; corridor gate post couplets, the bright colors with the ancestral hall on the roof Tailv, coordination and beautiful.
Closed fortress-style large scale appearance and a strong defensive performance, showing the majesty of an aggressively threatening. The Earth Building interior space is formed with thin wood components, and internal hospital open living space, using a standard small bays and near-human scale, and thus people feel warm, it was a people to build the scale space It is man's life and providing an ideal environment. Hakka Earth Building gives the perception is: a large-scale a small scale, a mud wall a fir corridor, a majestic an intimate, but also reflects the harmony between man and nature.
Zhen Shing House - Earthen Prince Yongding Hakka Earth, many of Earthen is based on gossip plans designed imprint of traditional Chinese culture which is deeply etched. The most typical representative of course ought to vibration into the floor.
Zhen-Cheng Hung Dongkeng Town House is located in Lake Village, built in 1912, covers an area of 5000 square meters divided into inside and outside the two laps to form a floor has floor, outside the building and flat pattern. Outside the ring floor, 4th floor, each floor 48, by "Eight Diagrams" construction, each hexagram set a staircase, as a unit; Gua and Gua compartment between the firewall, a hexagram fire, do not bring disaster to the whole building; Gua and Gua Gua is located also between the doors, close up, self-contained side, open up, all parties can be interlinked. Once the thieves house, Gua door was shut, you can grasp urn in the living turtle. Ancestral hall like a stage, the stage there are four large stone pillars legislation, the stage up and down both sides of the two 30 laps into an inner room, second floor corridor is a delicate cast-iron grille fence. There is a permanent hall and doorway couplets and inscriptions of more than 20 pieces, fully demonstrated the Earthen culture. Among them, "green belt through the cultivation, love bamboo Xiao famous garden," a joint containing a known as "the word king" of the "band", which allegedly has the word word, word to make sentences, can be broken out over a hundred words, the mystery of infinity. Buildings there are two wells, spaced 30 meters, however, were in the same horizontal plane, but the water temperature, water level and water clarity vary, so far is an unsolved mystery.
Full-floor facility layout of Suzhou gardens, both Western blot, but also the characteristics of ancient Greek architecture. Be called Chinese and Western architectural wonderful work. In 1995, its architectural model and the Temple of Heaven Beijing as China's representatives to participate in the North-South Rotunda of the United States Los Angeles World Architecture Exhibition, caused a sensation, known as "Pearl of the East Building."
Chaintech House - Earthen Floor, King Chaintech high head Township is located in the high northern village, Li Shi-Ming and Qing three generations, reading half a century, when completed, its magnitude, shape strange, antique, full of rich local flavor. "High-four-story, floor, four laps, up and down 400; round in the round, trap circle, vicissitudes of life after three centuries", which is the building is a vivid portrayal. The most popular, lived in more than 600 people.
Local is also circulating a funny story: There are two live in a building to the young woman did not know each other. On one occasion, they each boast their own living Tulou, the did not know that their is actually boast about their own lives Chaintech floor, only one floor living in the East, one floor living in western Bale.
Chaintech House with its tall, thick, rugged, majestic architecture and garden courtyard dignified Korea off of the plastic arts, financial, and poetic charm of the Township, so that many visitors breathtaking, Taiwan and Shenzhen Splendid China Lilliput has a Chaintech floor model. Revenue in 1981 was famous Chinese dictionary, known as "Tulou King", the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes and other Chinese landmarks compete with the release splendor.
In 1986, China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued a group of Chinese houses series of stamps, including stamps, Fujian is to Chaintech floor residential as a pattern, the stamp as the year in Japan, the best stamps.
If l F - l F Pocket Earthen such as total so far is the smallest circular building, built in AD 1901, nearly a hundred years ago. According to legend, the original home of Lou Zhu lack of housing, the latter have a dream "the whereabouts of a red here", it will do everything possible to raise funds for the completion of three years with such a circular floor. Because floor is small, such as Hakka Bo made of the amount of rice with bamboo tool "m l", hence the name, such as l floor. Many visitors also known as "pocket Tulou." Name "such as the l floor," There are a deeper meaning, "such as the day Dongsheng, light years."
Fu Yu House - mansion-style Earthen Fook Yu Hung Dongkeng Town House in Lake Village, is Yongding Earthen mansion-style contributions. 1880 AD, the start of construction at a cost of tens of thousands of light-yang has experienced three years to build, covers an area of 7000 square meters. Building is three brothers from a friend Tingzhou Louzhu prefect Zhang Xing Bing design. Imitation Western-style architectural style, magnificent. There are three front doors, in the main building and cross a small door between the house apart, appearance fused, which is divided into three units. Lou Men Ping and walls paved with local river pebbles, fine craftsmanship and the natural environment is very seamless, very harmonious. Looks like three mountains, hidden Louzhu three brothers, "Three Mountains," was intended. House name is Zhang Xing Bing wrote.
Koyu floor - ancient square floor Guangyu Building was built in 1775, about 230 years ago. Covers an area of about 8,000 square meters. Building for the three-tier architecture, a total of 102. Shimen Ochi buildings carved windows, filling its past glory. The floor was the Hong Hang earliest and most complete being shaped Tulou, formerly the city. As the importance of education, since the move into this house, after a flourishing population, talent, fame Hilltop. During the Qing Dynasty, there were nine doctors, chin-shih 4, scholar more than 40 people, Wu scholar 2.
In addition, there is the largest circle Minxi House "far-reaching House"; the largest party floor "spreading through the floor"; of the oldest Tulou "Fu Hing House," etc., Hakka where they created a unique adobe architecture - Tulou homes.
In the mountains, ancestors of the local materials, using rocks, built this adobe and wood homes like castles Kennedy "Hakka Earth Buildings" (the Americans thought it was the nuclear base), so that your children and grandchildren in the building peacefully to live here, I just think they are really great. An Earthen is a temple of art, each one another Hakka Earth like a little community. Hakka Earth Buildings is always well stocked with an encyclopedia!
(Figure 1: You can see the vibration into the floor, the owner is giving us Ageng vibration into the floor to explain the origins, but also talk about his home calendar.)
(Figure 2: round, "Chaintech flat" with the square of the Earthen Earthen combined into a "thin strip of sky," like a beautiful symphony villages.)
(Figure 3: a small "if l House" is from the "m l" came. Which are like the Dongsheng, is the minimum Tulou. How looks is like a golden autumn, "if l" wish you Mancang! )
(Figure 4: "Fu Yu House" and "Koyu House" is the most complete, the oldest square Tulou. This world of vicissitudes, you can see the former glory it?)
(Figure 5: luxuriant hills in the cement pit soil-rise buildings, from four round buildings and a square floor, composition, first glance, the word is just fantastic. This is the plum blossom? No! Is falling the sky a UFO? cover the ground grow mushrooms? mountains, at your most tired, when, suddenly, the immediate scenery is so that you tired Dunxiao.)
(Already 2002.06.23_ Hong Kong Commercial Daily - Human Geography published)
Author: kk6677
