Characteristics of Hakka dwellings - structure.

Hakka Tulou, also known as Fujian round building, is a pearl of Chinese civilization, is the world's unique mythological mountain village residential architecture, is a wondrous flower of China's ancient architecture, which is independent of the world's residential architectural art of the forest with a long history, unique style, grand scale, exquisite structure and other characteristics. Tulou residential caste and group living characteristics and its construction features are closely related to the history of the Hakka people. Whenever the Hakka people go to a place, their own family members will always live together. In addition, the Hakka people live in most of the remote mountainous areas or deep in the mountains, not only the lack of building materials, jackals, wolves, tigers and leopards, thieves and noisy, coupled with the fear of local attacks, the Hakka people will create a "defense" of the castle-style architecture of the residence. This also formed the unique architectural form of Hakka dwellings - Tulou. Tulou is mainly located in Longyan, Zhangzhou and other areas of Fujian Province.

Shape

Tulou is a collective building built with earth as wall, which is round, semi-circular, square, four-pointed, five-pointed, chair-shaped, 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 earth building. In the existing earth building, the most notable round, the local people called the round building or round cottage.