Tianluokeng Village

Tianluokeng village, belonging to Shuyang Town, Nanjing County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, is a Tulou village. It is composed of five Tulou, including one square, three round and one oval. The square Buyun building in the middle and the round Hechang building on the upper right were built in the first year of Jiaqing Dynasty (1796). Later, Zhenchang building, Ruiyun building and Wenchang building were successively built around it. The five Tulou are arranged randomly according to the mountain situation. Surrounded by the mountains, they look like a plum blossom in full bloom on the earth, or like a flying saucer falling from the sky. They form the unique scenery of human arts and natural environment, which is amazing. They are a wonderful flower in the garden of folk architecture. In May 2001, it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Tianluokeng Village

Tianluokeng village, belonging to Shuyang Town, Nanjing County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, is a Tulou village. It is composed of five Tulou, including one square, three round and one oval. The square Buyun building in the middle and the round Hechang building on the upper right were built in the first year of Jiaqing Dynasty (1796). Later, Zhenchang building, Ruiyun building and Wenchang building were successively built around it. The five Tulou are arranged randomly according to the mountain situation. Surrounded by the mountains, they look like a plum blossom in full bloom on the earth, or like a flying saucer falling from the sky. They form the unique scenery of human arts and natural environment, which is amazing. They are a wonderful flower in the garden of folk architecture. In May 2001, it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

General situation of the village

Located in Nanjing

Tianluokeng Tulou group in SHANGBAN village of Shuyang town is a national key cultural relic protection unit. It is composed of one square building, three round buildings and one oval building. It is known as "four dishes and one soup". Its exquisite architectural combination has become the most typical representative of Fujian Hakka Tulou group, which has been accepted by the world heritage center and listed in the world heritage list. In November 2003, the Ministry of Construction awarded tianluokeng village in Nanjing as the first batch of famous historical and cultural villages in China.

Tianluokeng Tulou group in Shuyang town of Nanjing County, which is called "four dishes and one soup", is located in tianluokeng natural village of Shuyang SHANGBAN village in the west of Nanjing County. It is the settlement of Huang family. It is 60 kilometers away from Nanjing County. It is composed of square Buyun building, round Zhenchang building, Ruiyun building, Hechang building and oval Wenchang building, all of which are well preserved. All the residents are of the Huang family.

Zhangzhou is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese and the ancestral home of Taiwan. There are 700000 overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao compatriots living abroad. One third of Taiwan's population has their ancestral home in Zhangzhou, where overseas Chinese and Taiwan compatriots seek their roots and visit their ancestors.

Historical evolution

Tianluokeng, as the name suggests, is named because of the image of tianluokeng, the surrounding mountains are high, and the terrain in the middle is low-lying, which looks like a pit, so it is called tianluokeng.

The ancient tianluokeng is surrounded by mountains and ancient trees. The air here is fresh, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and there are all kinds of rare animals and birds. The beautiful scenery here has become a paradise for all living beings to live and multiply.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Huang Xigui, the ancestor of Huang family in tianluokeng village, with his son baisanlang, set out from aoyao, Yongding County, Fujian Province, and chose to move to Baodi. They went through huyangkeng, Xiaban village, Liwu, shangbanliao and tianluokeng. At that time, the families of Chen, Jiang, Yang and he lived in tianluokeng. Seeing that they lived in harmony and worked hard, they decided to settle down here. Huang Xigui and his son Bai Sanlang set out to build a thatched shed and live by raising ducks.

In the process of production and life in tianluokeng, Huang's ancestors thought that tianluokeng was surrounded by mountains, wind and gas, and sunshine was long all year round, which was a good place for Jianyang house. From the perspective of geographical location, tianluokeng is located in the position of Bagua, and Qian, Kan and Gen are three auspicious directions. In the upper, middle and lower three elements, Qian and Gen had the longest lucky luck. Tianluokeng is a gen square, one of the three auspicious squares, so the halls of the existing buildings are Gen seats, and sitting Gen is one of its major characteristics. Tianluokeng, where the water flows from the right to the left, flows out of dingweikou, Chenwei and Xuwei. It is not the tomb of Jiamu and Guishui, or the combination of heaven. Naturally, it is a good place to live in peace.

In the early years of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, Bai Sanlang, the ancestor of Huang's family in tianluokeng, was instructed by Mr. Feng Shui of geography. He built a grass shed in Bai Sanlang, which was the treasure land of all. At the same time, he set the money for the homestead, set the direction, set the line, and set the shape of the building. Build a three story, single story, 20 bay square earth building Hechang building. After the completion of Hechang building, a ancestral hall, Jiangxia hall, was built on the field below it to show the memory of Huang's predecessors.

After Huang was handed down to the 12th century, he successively built Buyun building and other earth buildings. Until 1966, he still built Wenchang building, which lasted more than 600 years.

With the rapid development of Huang's family, tianluokeng has unified Huang's family.

Main buildings

Tianluokeng earth building

Tianluokeng Tulou is composed of five Tulou with one side and four circles. It is like flowers blooming in the mountains. Some people call it "four dishes and one soup". People can't help sighing the vividness of folk language!

The origin of the name of tianluokeng is quite strange. Some villagers say that it gets its name from the lake behind the village. The mountain looks like a snail. Others say that the fairy tale of the snail girl is about Huang's ancestor, the lucky man named Huang baisanlang. Because of the help of the snail girl, she became a rich gentleman from a young duck farmer.

The snail girl may not be true, but Huang baisanlang is a real person. Huang's genealogy in tianluokeng proves that Huang baisanlang moved here from Yongding during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty and began his legendary life here. In the middle of Huang's ancestral hall in the Tulou group, there is an ancestral tablet. Huang baisanlang ranks first, and his tomb is in wugengliao, two kilometers away from tianluokeng. He receives the sacrifice of tianluokeng people every Qingming Festival.

This young duck farmer made full use of the advantages of mountain mud, deep valley and dense forest to expand reproduction and earn "the first pot of gold" for himself. Like most Chinese, Huang's favorite thing to do when he has money is to build a house. The first building to be built is fanglou, which is also known as "the bowl of soup" and its elegant name is "Buyun Lou". Along the high and low terrain, the central hall is built into a ladder shape, so that people can experience the pleasure of "rising step by step" after entering the gate. This not only highlights the important position of the ancestral hall, but also reposes the good wish of "rising steadily". It's strange that such a wise man and snail girl don't like it.

Following the completion of Buyun building, Huang baishiro's descendants built four round buildings around it, including Hechang, Zhenchang, Ruichang and Ruiyun. After the modern architecture experts come to inspect, they all admire the architectural wisdom of the ancients. By increasing or decreasing the height of the columns of the first floor along the terrain, the builders of the four round buildings have successfully obtained the plane of the second floor, which is greatly convenient for living.

In southwest Fujian, the tradition of building earth buildings has a long history. Compared with masonry and wood structure, the construction process of earth building is obviously much more complicated. In a large amount of raw soil, lime, fine sand, glutinous rice, brown sugar, bamboo slices, wooden strips, etc. are mixed, pounded and rammed repeatedly. The building scene is very warm. The whole process seems not like building a house, but like a festival.

In the earthen building where people live together, the first floor is the kitchen, the second floor is the warehouse, and the third to fifth floor is the living room. The courtyard has a well and a wide activity space. The warm and harmonious scene is beautiful. Hakkas like earth buildings because of their excellent properties such as anti-theft, shockproof, animal proof, fire prevention, moisture-proof, warm in winter and cool in summer.

Tourism related

Tourism season

Tulou can be photographed all the year round, especially before and after "mang Zhong". At this time, the terraces near Tulou are full of water. If it rains and there are clouds and fog in the mountains, you can choose a good angle to make a good work. For example, during the Spring Festival, there are many folk activities, which can also add bright colors to the photos.

traffic

The scenic spot is 98 kilometers away from the city and 60 kilometers away from the county. You can take a bus from Zhangzhou West Railway Station, and the ticket is 20 yuan.

get accommodation

The accommodation conditions in the county seat of Nanjing are good. There are hotels of various grades. The township level is slightly worse, but it's convenient to see the earth buildings scattered in various villages. Recommend the Tulou hotel in Shuyang Township, Nanjing. The condition is general, but it is clean. It's a good idea to live in Tulou. Although the conditions are hard, you can enjoy the authentic Hakka style.

delicious food

Hakka cuisine is characterized by "salty, fat and cooked", with salty chicken, fermented bean curd and braised meat.

Lobak

Mix half fat and half lean pork strips, chopped scallions, chopped water chestnuts, dried shrimps and other raw materials, mix five spice powder, sugar, shrimp oil, add sweet potato powder and water, mix them evenly to form a paste, and then roll them into a round strip with a diameter of about 4 inches and a diameter of about 1 inch with bean curd skin, and fry them in an exothermic oil pan. Eat it while it's hot. It's crisp outside and moist inside. It's fragrant and delicious.

Moisten cake

The main raw materials are spring bamboo shoots, carrots, Korean cabbage, leeks, mung bean sprouts, mushrooms, crispy seaweed, pork legs, shrimps, egg skin, etc. when eating, use the cooked dough as thin as cicada wings to roll all kinds of dishes into pillows, and then dip them in various sauces according to personal preferences. Its characteristics: tender, crisp, sweet and mellow. Can also be a good package of Run cake fried crisp, commonly known as "spring cake", do not have a flavor. Zhangzhou people have the habit of eating moist cakes, especially around the Qingming Festival.

Fried oysters

The xiqian area near Shima town in Longhai county is rich in "pearl oysters". "Pearl Oyster" has thin shell and less meat, but it is rich in protein and minerals, and contains a lot of protein

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