Fuyu building

Fuyu building, located in hongkeng village, Hukeng Town, Longyan City, Fujian Province, is an outstanding representative of Yongding mansion style earth building.

Fuyu building

Fuyu building, located in hongkeng village, Hukeng Town, Longyan City, Fujian Province, is an outstanding representative of Yongding mansion style earth building.

It started in 1880 and cost more than 100000 yuan. It took three years to complete, covering an area of more than 7000 square meters. The building was designed by Zhang Xingbing, a friend of the three brothers (Lin Zhongshan, Lin Renshan and Lin Deshan). The name of the building was also inscribed by Zhang Xingbing.

Development history

It started in 1880 and cost more than 100000 yuan. It took three years to complete, covering an area of more than 7000 square meters. The building was designed by Zhang Xingbing, a friend of the three brothers (Lin Zhongshan, Lin Renshan and Lin Deshan).

Its structural features: on the central axis of the main building, the front is low and the back is high. There are two horizontal rooms with orderly height and distinct primary and secondary. There are three gates in front of the building. There are small gates separated between the main building and the cross room. The exterior of the building is integrated, and the interior is divided into three units. Loumenping and the wall are paved with local river pebbles. The workmanship is very fine and harmonious with the natural environment. It looks like three mountains, implying the meaning of "three mountains" of the three brothers. The name of the building was also inscribed by Zhang Xingbing.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the three brothers of Lin family, the landlord of the building, were engaged in the business of tobacco and tobacco knives. Their products were sold to Japan and Southeast Asian countries and made a fortune. They also donated a lot of money to set up "Rixin school". Rixin school is also designed by Zhang Xingbing. It is an elegant and beautiful school with a combination of Chinese and Western culture. Since the establishment of this school, many talents have been cultivated and its reputation has been well-known. Many foreigners have come to Rixin school to study. "For hundreds of years, people have accumulated good deeds, and the first good thing is to study." there are many talented people in Fuyu building.

When Li Yuanhong was president, Lin Xunzhi (the son of Lin Renshan, the designer and manufacturer of zhenchenglou) was a member of the Central Committee. His calligraphy, painting and couplets were also very famous. Almost all the couplets of zhenchenglou were written by Lin Xun. Lin's younger brother, Lin Liangzhi, studied at Waseda University in Japan and obtained a doctor of law degree. After returning home, he successively served as county magistrate of Minhou, Huian and Ninghua counties. He was the former principal of Yongding middle school for many years. In the early days of liberation, he was rated as an enlightened person.

Architectural features

On both sides of the hall are wing rooms. Behind the hall stands a double closed three open partition of the same height as the first floor, which serves as both the middle door and the screen wall. The upper half of the six loose leaf doors is engraved with gold motifs. The back facing of the partition is a rectangular patio paved with triad clay. A small door is set on both sides of the partition, which is connected with the corridor on both sides of the patio in front of the middle hall (ancestral hall). The corridor is more spacious than other corridors, and can be used to hold banquets. The front facing of the widened part opens a small door to the horizontal building. Climbing the two steps behind the corridor is the middle hall corridor, with a door on each side leading to the henglou. As the ancestral hall, the central hall is of brick and wood structure. It is tall and spacious. The entrance of the hall is open to the patio in front of it. It is more than one meter higher than other rooms in the same building. It has carved beams and painted buildings and is exquisitely decorated.

A glass plaque is hung on the top of the hall; wooden couplets are hung on the pillars on both sides of the hall: "people have been good for hundreds of years, and the first good thing is to read books"; on the pillars of the wing rooms on both sides of the hall, exquisite wooden congratulatory couplets presented by Lin Zhen, a senior official of the capital, are hung. There are two columns on the left and right sides of the front of ancestral hall. The lower part between the two columns is clay sculpture, with flowers and plants in the front and "Fulu" in the back; the upper part is inlaid with green glazed Plaid screen. The two sides of the back of the hall are concave backward. A door is set in the front and the side to lead to the back hall. The front is carved wooden screen door, the side is brick arch door, and the back of the screen door is patio. On both sides of the patio are two-story, three Bay wing rooms with a small door in front of the brick arch. Both sides of the hall are back to the corridor of the back wing room. The back of the back wall of the hall is a staircase leading to the second floor, which is connected with the wing rooms and corridors on both sides of the hall. Guanyin hall is located in the middle of the second floor of the middle building. Its floor is higher than the corridor on the second floor of the wing room behind the hall. A short ladder is set in the front of the corridor on both sides of the hall to enter the Guanyin hall in the middle through the arch. Guanyin hall is large and spacious, offering statues of Guanyin. There are carved wooden screens on both sides of Shenge. The buildings and beams of the hall are painted red and decorated with large-scale eight diagrams in the middle of the top.

Hall entrance

A platform with a height of 1.2 meters and a width of 1 meter is set at the entrance of the hall. The outer edge of the platform is glazed lattice guardrail. Glazed lattice screens are inlaid on both sides of the entrance of the hall, on the inner edge of the platform and between the columns butting with the front columns of the ancestral hall on the ground floor, as high as the roof beam. On both sides of the hall are the front attic and the back attic, which are accessed by the short ladder of the side arch of the hall. A door is set in the front attic to connect with the platform in front of the hall, and the second floor of the wing room in the back of the hall is connected with the wall of the back floor. The corridor in front of the back building forms a closed corridor between the wall of the back building and the wing room, and a door is set at both ends to connect with the horizontal buildings on both sides.

Zhonglou

The middle building, the inner corridor on both sides of the front and back, and the front and rear wing rooms divide the whole building into six patios, which makes the interior space richer and more comfortable.

Back building

There are 9 rooms in the back building, which are divided into 3 units. Each unit has 3 rooms, and each unit is equipped with a staircase up and down. The staircase is located in the middle of the larger area. The staircase on each floor is the hall in the front and divided into two small rooms in the back. The structure above the second floor is the same as that of the bottom floor, and the top half floor is the attic. There is a well on both sides in front of the back building. In the old days, the patriarch lived in the back building to show his honor. The two sides connected with the front and rear buildings are two stories high, with brick and wood structure. The two floors are symmetrical, with inner corridor type, and mixed timber frame with bucket and beam. There are a row of brick and wood structure bungalows on the outside of the horizontal building, which are symmetrical on both sides and parallel to the horizontal building. There are toilets, pigsty, sundries room, mill room, good room, etc.

The front hall (building) and the middle hall (building) of the building are suspended on the top of the mountain with broken eaves, while the back hall (building) is suspended on the top of the mountain with broken eaves and overhanging eaves. The roof of the front, middle and back hall (building) falls in three sections and rises from the front to the back layer by layer. The slope of the roof is much larger than that of other kinds of earth buildings, which makes it more magnificent.

Address: hongkeng village, Hukeng Town, Longyan City, Fujian Province

Longitude: 116.977779

Latitude: 24.662135

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