Traditional Chinese dwellings on water

Gua Ling Ancient Village Walled City is the only Qing Dynasty architectural residence built on water in Guangzhou, with a history of more than 500 years, and was set up as an internally controlled historical and cultural protection zone by Guangzhou Municipality after its discovery in 2003. Zengcheng Gua Ling Village Walled City is a typical Lingnan water village style. Waterway, litchi forest, towers, ancestral halls, residential layout in the era of war, there is a strategic significance, the waterway around the village, play a role in protecting the village, the opposite side of the growth of 100 years of litchi forests, quite dense, harvest season, the scene should be very lively; residential in the village in the center of the village, ancestral halls, as well as large-scale buildings into a word set open in the banks of the waterway, can defend against invasion by foreign enemies, play a role in protecting the villagers.