Characteristics and formation of Hakka Tulou

The Hakka Tulou is a large-scale group of Hakka dwellings with rammed-earth walls that have been inherited by the Hakka people from generation to generation, where they live in clans and flourish. Hakka Tulou building has sufficient economy, good solidity, wonderful physical, outstanding defense, unique art and other superiority. From the point of view of the Tulou buildings themselves, the layout of Hakka Tulou buildings is overwhelmingly characterized by the following 3 features:

1. The central axis is distinctive, and the hall-type houses, five phoenixes buildings, mansion-type square buildings, square buildings, etc. are particularly prominent.

2, with the hall as the core. The building has a hall, and there is a main hall. Hall as the center of the organization of the courtyard, the courtyard as the center of the group combination. Even if it is a round building, the location of the main hall is also very prominent.

3, the corridor through the whole building, can be said to be well-connected. But similar to the Jikei building such a small unit type, each household is self-contained, do not communicate with each other in Yongding and even the Hakka region for a very small number of earth building.

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Distribution Areas:

The Hakka Tulou buildings are mainly located on the south side of the Boping Mountain. Several counties and cities on both sides of the southern pulse of the Bo Ping Ling, mainly Longyan City and Zhangzhou City in Fujian and Tai Po, Rao Ping and Jiaoling in Guangdong.

Such as the town of Longyan in the south, Yongding in the southeast of the high slopes, the city of Kan, Fushi, Hu Lei, Guzhu, Qiling, Daxi, Hukeng, under the ocean and other townships, Nanking northwestern townships of Kuiyang, Meilin, Shuyang, Pinghe west of the townships of Luxi, Xiazhai, Hexi, Xiufeng, Zhao'an northwestern Xiuzhuan, Guanpi and other townships, and the junction of Fujian, Guangdong, Raoping, Taipo, Jialing, Guangdong, part of the region.

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