Nanxi Tulou group

Local people recommend a panoramic view of Nanxi from the viewing platform at the top of the mountain. The viewing platform is surrounded by vegetable fields and rice fields. Looking around, it is the beautiful valley of Nanxi. Several earth buildings of different sizes form a complete community. Looking further away, it is still a group of earth buildings in twos and threes, hiding and flickering among the landscape trees. However, there is no shuttle bus here, so it will be more difficult for unfamiliar tourists to go there by themselves.

Among the famous buildings in Nanxi Tulou group, there are Zhenfu building, Yanxiang building and Huanji building, as well as the octagonal building, Dongcheng building and Qingyang building. The unique earth buildings are worth appreciating.

Nanxi Tulou group

Nanxi Tulou group is one of the representatives of Yongding Tulou. The most popular tourist attraction is Zhenfu building, which is called "sister building" of Zhencheng building. Like Zhencheng building, it is a grand round building. It is an earth building with a combination of Chinese and Western elements. It is designed and built according to the layout of eight trigrams. The scenery is very beautiful.

Nanxi is a small stream in Hukeng Town, Yongding County, Fujian Province. From Hukeng town upstream, through the villages of xiananxi, Xinnan, nanzhong, Nanjiang and Shijia, you can get on a hill in Jiaotang natural village. When you look around, you can see the long Nanxi River running through a long and narrow valley with murmuring streams, green mountains and terraced fields. On both sides of Nanxi River, there are more than 100 round, square, octagonal, hexagonal, triangular, D-shaped, elliptical, front round and back round earth buildings with different shapes. They are large or small, high or low, or gathered or scattered. They are inlaid in terraced valleys and curved river banks, just like a long running dragon, winding for more than ten kilometers.

Zhenfulou

Zhenfulou

It is located in xiananxi, Hukeng Town, with beautiful scenery. "The Phoenix rises, the Danshan is beautiful, and the Jiaoteng is surrounded by clear water.". This couplet accurately describes a mountain landscape composed of Zhenfu building and its surrounding environment. The gate of Zhenfu building faces Nanxi. The stream is broad and gentle, with big rocks lying in the river. The embankments on both sides of the river are high, thick and solid. Not far from the bridge, deep pool, green water, ancient banyan verdant, such as umbrella, such as cover. If you look back at Zhenfu building from the Village Road on the opposite side of the gate, you can see that the roof of Zhenfu building is just between the mountains on both sides of the canyon. The building is neither high nor low, and it just plays a role of "transition" between the two mountains. It can be said that the beautiful and quiet landscape and pastoral environment with Zhenfu building as the center is a masterpiece of the integration of heaven, earth and man.

The title of the 8-episode TV series "Tulou family" selects this landscape as the main picture. Zhenfu building is also a magnificent round building. It is designed according to the layout of eight trigrams. Many stone and brick materials are used in the building, and the carving is fine. It is also an earth building with external soil and internal ocean, and Chinese and Western walls. It is called "sister building" of Zhencheng building. Zhenfu building covers an area of more than 4000 square meters, with a total of 3 halls and 96 rooms. The central hall is two Zhang high and two Zhang wide, with granite pillars on both sides, engraved with a couplet of "Zhenxing, Qingzhan, Huanhuan, Fulu and suisong, chichang". On the right side of the building are the former tobacco factory and workers' houses; on the left side, the collapsed building was originally a western style school and entertainment place, which was destroyed during the cultural revolution. Zhenfu building was built in 1913. Su Zhentai, the builder of the building, was born in poverty. After studying in a private school for a few years, he first learned how to plane cigarettes, then he learned how to sell cigarettes. He made a fortune in tobacco business in Guangdong, Shanghai and other places. He chose this geomantic treasure land and built Zhenfu building with tens of thousands of ocean. There are many descendants of Su Zhentai, including more than 100 overseas descendants, many of whom are experts and scholars.

Huanji building

Huanji building

It is located in nanzhong village. The founder is Su buchen, who built this large-scale and magnificent Dayuan village with civil structure in 1693. The building has four floors, about 20 meters in height, 43.20 meters in diameter, 130 meters in circumference, 1.70 meters in thickness on the ground floor and 0.9 meters on the top of the wall; there are 32 rooms on the first floor (for kitchen and dining room), and a large foyer and main hall, 34 rooms on the second floor (for storage), 34 rooms on the third floor and 34 rooms on the fourth floor. Inside the building, there are two living rooms, ten rooms (for Hospitality) and two male and female bathrooms. The corridor inside the building is 1.56 meters wide and the eaves corridor outside the building is 1.82 meters wide. The door of the building is 2.96 meters high and 3.4 meters wide, with iron sheet nailed. There is a well inside and outside the building. There are 16 bedrooms, 8 stables and 6 grinding mills outside the building. There are 21 households and 116 people living in Huanji building. There are more than 400 people in this township, many of whom live in Nanyang, and most of them live in Myanmar. It is called huanjilou. There is a saying that the North Star, also known as Beichen star, is the leader of all the stars in the celestial body. Some people wrote a poem: "water will tend to the East, no star does not arch north", which means that the stars arch around the north pole and rotate. This building is located at the position of beirenzi to Bingwu, so it is named "Huanji building"; another saying is: ring is circle, "circle (ring)" is auspicious word, "Huanji" is to wish its good luck (good circle). The biggest characteristic of Huanji building is its strong seismic performance. It has experienced many earthquakes in the past 300 years. According to the county records, on February 13, 1918 (the third day of the first lunar month in the seventh year of the Republic of China), a 7.0 earthquake occurred in Yongding, which caused the mud water in the nearby fields to spray several feet high. Almost all the bricks and tiles on the top of the building were shaken down, and the aftershocks occurred several times, totaling more than 10 minutes. The thick walls on the third and fourth floors above the main gate of Huanji building were destroyed The crack is nearly 20 cm long and more than 3 meters wide. However, after the earthquake, due to the centripetal force of the round building and the traction of the structure, the cracks miraculously slowly closed, leaving only a slender crack, and the whole building was safe and upright. Some Japanese friends visited and said, "it would be great if such a building is built in Tokyo." At the central point of Huanji tower, if you stamp your feet or sing aloud, you can hear a very obvious echo, like the echo wall of the temple of heaven in Beijing. There is another special feature of Huanji building: there is no ancestral hall in the center of the building, but an open courtyard. This is unique among the numerous earth buildings in Yongding. This is inconceivable in the feudal society which attaches great importance to rites and principles. Huanji building is also known as "Wuli building". When people sigh about the architectural art of Huanji building, they also admire the creative rebellious spirit of architects.

Yan Xiang Lou

Yan Xiang Lou

It is a round earth building, located in Xinnan village. It was built in 1880 by Su Guchun. Su Gu's family was poor in his youth. In his middle age, he ran a tobacco business in his hometown and Shanghai. His business flourished and he became rich, so he built this building. The main body of Yanxiang building is 40 meters in diameter, the bottom wall is 1.5 meters thick, the top wall is 0.7 meters thick, and the wall is 14.5 meters high. There are one gate, two wells, three halls, four staircases, 34 rooms on each floor, and 136 rooms on the fourth floor. There are 4 bathrooms beside the stairs on the ground floor and 6 bathrooms beside the hall. The first floor is the kitchen and restaurant, the second floor is the granary, and the third and fourth floors are the bedrooms. The door is nailed with steel plate, and the top of the door is equipped with a water pipe and water tank for fire fighting. In the past, there were robbers and thieves who wanted to set fire to the door, but they could not succeed.

The main building is also constructed according to the eight trigrams, and its characteristics are: the interior Hall of the building imitates the mansion style building, including the back hall, the middle hall and the front hall, and there are wing rooms on the left and right sides of the hall. The walls inside and outside the hall and the small doors on the left and right are exquisitely carved, and the paintings and calligraphy on the walls are exquisite. The overall layout is harmonious, unified, beautiful and practical. In front of the building, there are streams, running water and unique scenery. The terrain and environment of the building are as follows: on the left, there are "literary stars and saddles", on the right, there are "parrots presenting auspiciousness and golden basin on the shelf", in the front, there are "pen frame jade case", and in the back, there are "Phoenix spreading wings". The scenery is excellent and pleasing to the eye. The most peculiar thing is that there are three ancient pine trees of more than 200 years behind the building. From 1979 to 1981, in the evening at the turn of summer and autumn for three consecutive years, smoke rose slowly and went straight up into the sky. Thousands of people saw this strange landscape. The same spectacle appeared in the evening of May 7, 1993. There is no scientific explanation for this strange sight.

The meaning of the name of Yanxiang building is "to breed children and grandchildren, to be prosperous and well-developed, and to be handed down from generation to generation.". "Dafudi" is written on the front door of the building, and the couplet on both sides is: "the accumulation of virtue is more extensive, the collection of books is ancient fragrance". It is a "inheritor of poetry and etiquette". Among the 13 grandchildren of Su Guchun's descendants, five scholars and one of them worked in Fuzhou and other places. So far, there are five or six hundred people, of whom more than 400 live in Southeast Asia and other places. At present, there are 16 households and nearly 100 people living in Yanxiang building, including 25 teachers and 32 college students. It is a typical scholarly family.

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Article 1 free tickets shall be granted to those who meet one of the following conditions.

1. Children under 1.2m (including 1.2m) in height.

2. Retired personnel (with retirement certificate).

3. Elderly people over 70 years old (with ID card).

4. Disabled (with disability certificate).

5. National labor model (with national labor model certificate).

6. Soldiers in active service (with valid certificates).

7. Hold valid tourism administrative law enforcement certificate issued by national tourism authorities, national tour guide certificate (local tour guide certificate issued by provinces and cities)

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