Chuxi Tulou group

Chuxi Tulou group

Chuxi Tulou group is located in Chuxi village, Xiayang Town, Yongding District, Fujian Province. It has been built for hundreds of years from Ming Dynasty to modern times. It is the settlement of Xu family, with a total area of 14.72 hectares.

Chuxi Tulou group is one of the "three groups and two buildings" in Yongding. It consists of five round buildings and dozens of square buildings (mainly Jiqing building, Yuqing building, Shengqing building, Huaqing building, Gengqing building, Xiqing building, Fuqing building, Gongqing building, Fanqing building, Shanqing building, etc.), and the main types are rectangle, square, circle, hexagon, etc.

There is a word "Qing" in the middle of the building names of Chuxi Tulou group, which shows that people are prosperous and everything goes well. The unique architectural style and ancient charm of Chuxi Tulou group reflect high aesthetic and historical value, and show the wisdom and creativity of Chinese working people. The scale of Chuxi Tulou group and the cultural atmosphere created by its architectural art are rare all over the world, showing the legacy of Central Plains and Hakka folk customs.

In February 1999, Chuxi Tulou group was identified as a cultural relic protection unit at the county level (Yongding County), and became one of the declaration places for Yongding Hakka Tulou to be listed in the world heritage list.

In November 2009, Chuxi Tulou group was identified as the seventh batch of provincial cultural relics protection units in Fujian Province.

Historical evolution

In the early Ming Dynasty (early 13th century), the Xu family began to build earth buildings in Chuxi village, Xiayang Town, Yongding District.

Chuxi was originally named Chuxi, which means Chuxi. It has the meaning of carelessness. Because of its bad moral, it was renamed Chuxi.

In 1419, the Xu family built Jiqing building.

In 1799, the Xu family built the Shengqing building.

In 1840, the Xu family built the Gengqing building.

In 1949, the Xu family built the Gongqing building.

In 1979, the Xu family built Shanqing building.

Architectural features

pattern

Chuxi Tulou group is located in Chuxi village, Xiayang Town, Yongding County. It is the settlement of the Hakka people surnamed Xu.

It consists of five round buildings and dozens of square buildings. The layout of Chuxi Tulou Group retains the traditional pattern of ancient times,

It has strong architectural characteristics of Hakka dwellings.

Jiqing building is composed of two circular rings,

There are 9 lookouts and a number of stairs on the top exterior wall of the outer ring.

There are four watchtowers under the eaves of the outer wall of the fourth floor, and the whole earth building has only one gate.

Shengqing building is a square earth building residence, facing north and south, covering an area of 1482 square meters. It is a civil structure composed of two square earth buildings inside and outside.

Adjacent to Jiqing building, Shanqing building is a round earth building. Facing north and south, it covers an area of 630 square meters, with civil structure and three stories high.

Gengqing building is a round earth building with three stories of civil structure and covers an area of 660 square meters.

Gongqing building is a hexagonal Tulou residence, facing north and south, civil structure, four floors.

characteristic

The oldest and youngest of the world heritage Fujian Tulou are in Chuxi Tulou group. Jiqing building, 66 meters in diameter, is 600 years old, while Shanqing building, 31 meters in diameter, is only 30 years old.

General round building, small set two public stairs, big set four stairs, the ground floor is interlinked and layers of corridor access, mutual communication. On the ground floor, each household in Jiqing building has its own staircase from the first floor to the fourth floor. The passageways on each floor are separated by wooden boards. Seventy two staircases divide the whole building into seventy-two independent units. The rooms, stairs and partition walls are all made of Chinese fir. They are all connected by the head of the neighboring Falcon without an iron nail. After nearly six centuries of wind, frost, rain and snow, the Jiqing building is skew and stands up with the two meter thick raw earth wall.

Jiqing building is composed of two circular rings,

There are 9 lookouts and a number of stairs on the top exterior wall of the outer ring.

There are four watchtowers under the eaves of the outer wall of the fourth floor. The whole earth building has only one gate, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and its defense function is very prominent.

Different from other earth buildings, there is no well in Jiqing building, so it can only draw water from the river beside the building, and only has one gate, which is different from other earth buildings with three to four gates. Jiqinglou, a mode of living together and independent of each other, not only eliminates the fear of single door and single family in turbulent times, but also avoids the shortcoming that ordinary earth buildings have no private space and excessive noise.

In the hundreds of years after Jiqing building, all the floors of the earth buildings are connected by rings.

The corridor and patio on the first floor of Shanqing building are all paved with square granite of the same specification, which has good lighting and ventilation effect.

The gallery and patio on the ground floor are paved with square granite, and the external wall is painted with lime.

Gongqing building is low in the front and high in the back, with four corners in the front and two corners in the back. There are 152 halls and rooms in the whole building, with only one entrance.

Cultural relics

Chuxi Tulou group includes Jiqing building, Yuqing building, Shengqing building, Huaqing building, Gengqing building, Xiqing building, Fuqing building, Gongqing building, Fanqing building, Shanqing building, Xu's ancestral hall, Yongfeng nunnery, etc. among them, Jiqing building is a national key cultural relic protection unit,

The rest are cultural relics protection units in Fujian Province.

Jiqing building was built in 1419, the 17th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty. It is the oldest, most stairs and the most special structure existing in Yongding. There are 72 stairs in the building, one for each household.

The Jiqing building was built by a man surnamed Xu who runs the paper industry. The scale of the building is much larger than that of the surrounding buildings. The earth building is divided into 72 units by partition, which is different from the general earth building design.

A large Hakka folk custom museum is set up in Jiqing building to display precious cultural relics of various times.

More than 50 exhibition rooms have been initially built on the first floor of Jiqing building to display carving, opera, musical instrument workshop, pastry shop, old medicine shop, engraving printing, textile, Academy, wine shop, fortune teller, bank, folk costumes, farming tools, etc. In addition, ancient inscriptions, imperial plaques, Ming and Qing official costumes and supplies are also on display.

Cultural relic value

The architectural style and charm of Chuxi Tulou group reflect high aesthetic art and historical value, and show the wisdom and creativity of Chinese working people.

The scale of Chuxi Tulou group and the cultural atmosphere created by its architectural art are rare all over the world, showing the legacy of Central Plains and Hakka folk customs.

Chuxi Tulou group is located on the mountain and has a reasonable layout, which reflects the integration of human and nature, and has a strong Hakka residential architectural characteristics.

Cultural Activity

Legends and anecdotes

In the 20th century, U.S. satellites used Chuxi Tulou group as a missile launch base, and the data were stored in the White House. It was not until President Nixon's visit to China that they realized that it was just a kind of residential building called "Tulou".

Activity construction

In 2009, director Shen Haofang selected Chuxi Tulou group as the shooting base for his "going south".

protective measures

In February 1999, Chuxi Tulou group was identified as a cultural relic protection unit at the county level (Yongding County), and became one of the declaration places for Yongding Hakka Tulou to be listed in the world heritage list.

In July 2008, Fujian Tulou including Chuxi Tulou group was listed in the world cultural heritage list.

In November 2009, Chuxi Tulou group was identified as the seventh batch of provincial cultural relics protection units in Fujian Province.

Tourism information

address

Chuxi Tulou group is located in Chuxi village, Xiayang Town, Yongding District, Fujian Province.

admission ticket

Ticket price: individual (70 yuan / person / time), team (55 yuan / person / time)

Parking charge: 10 yuan per vehicle per time for less than 15 seats (including 15 seats) and 10 yuan per vehicle per time for more than 15 seats.

Team ticket price refers to the price of more than 10 people in a single group of a contracted travel agency.

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Address: Chuxi village, Xiayang Town, Yongding County, Longyan City

Longitude: 116.905523

Latitude: 24.54746

Tel: 0597-5830397; 0597-55

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