Is there any information and pictures of Hakka dwellings?

Data and pictures of Hakka dwellings

The Hakka Tulou (dwellings), also known as the Fujian Round House, is a jewel of Chinese civilization and a fabulous mountain village dwelling architecture that is unique in the world,?

Tulou is a collective building built with earth as walls, which is round, semi-circular, square, quadrangular, pentagonal, cross-chair, dustpan-shaped and so on, each with its own characteristics. The earliest earth building is square, there are palace type, house type, body shape is different, not only peculiar, but also rich in mystery, solid and firm. Building in the accumulation of food, livestock; wells, if you need to protect the enemy, just close the door, a few young adults to guard the door, the earth building is like a strong fortress, women, children, old and young as much as possible can rest easy. Due to the square earth building has a directional, darker corners, ventilation and lighting are different, so the Hakka people and designed a good ventilation and lighting, neither the beginning nor the end of the round building earth building.

Tulou belongs to the collective building, its biggest feature is its shape is big, whether from a distance or go to the front, Tulou are shocked by its huge monolithic building, the volume of its size, known as the most residential. In our visit to the most common round building in the earth building, its diameter of about more than 50 meters, three, four-story height, *** more than a hundred housing, can live in thirty, forty families, can accommodate two to three hundred people. And large round building diameter up to 70 or 80 meters, five or six stories high, there are four or five hundred housing, can live seven or eight hundred people. From the Tulou this way of residential architecture reflects the Hakka people gather and live in the folk customs.