Jinjiang tower

Jinjiang building, built in 1918, is a typical public building. The building is a 5-storey, 17.36m high, reinforced concrete structure. The top floor is a cantilever platform. There is a gray plastic pattern of Chinese and Western fusion outside the wall. In the middle is a building hanging on the top of the mountain. The wall is densely covered with gun holes, the window is narrow, and there are iron doors and windows. The building is simple and plain, which is a watchtower with remarkable defensive.

Jinjiang tower

Jinjiang building is a three circle corridor earth building. The inner ring is 25 meters in diameter, three stories in height, and the inner wall is 0.5 meters thick. The outer wall of the first floor is made of stone, and the upper wall is made of laminated concrete, with 12 partitions. The north room is used as the square stone column of ancestral hall to connect the wood column. The second floor has an inward corridor, and the third floor has no compartments. The fourth floor of the main building can lead to the top of the third floor, with double sloping roof. The outer wall is higher than the roof, and it is made into a female wall, with a plaque: "Jinjiang building" And "Qianlong Xinhai duanyuegu Danjian". The central circle has a plane diameter of 42 meters and a height of one floor. It is divided into 24 rooms, and consists of seven units. The door plaque is engraved with "Anlan Zhuqing" and "Yuegu Danzhi in Guihai year of Jiaqing". Outer ring plane diameter 58 meters, two-way slope top, are bungalows, separated by 37. In front of the building, a 16 meter wide passage is reserved, and a three-layer brick building is laid. A stage and a pool are set in front of the building.

Introduction to scenic spots

On the East Bank of the Wujiang River at the junction of the old town and Shentu Township in Zhangpu County, Fujian Province, there are the famous "five star three buildings", namely Shenxiu building, Rui'an building and Jinjiang building. The first two buildings are in disrepair and have collapsed. Only Jinjiang building is still intact after more than 200 years.

In Yongding, Nanjing, Pinghe and other places, both the double ring and the three ring towers are high on the outside and low on the inside, but this three ring Jinjiang tower is just the opposite. The first ring bungalow, the second ring and the third ring are higher than the first ring from the outside to the inside. From a distance, Jinjiang tower is like a pyramid, showing an extraordinary momentum.

General situation of Jinjiang building

Jinjiang building, located in Jinjiang natural village, Jindong administrative village, Zhangpu County, Fujian Province, is a circular earth building with three circles of high inside and low outside. It was first built by Lin Shengze in 1791, then by his wife Li can in 1803, and then by later generations in the middle of Qing Dynasty. His descendants lived in the building from generation to generation.

The inner ring of Jinjiang building is 25 meters in diameter and 3.0 meters in height. The main building has four floors. The thickness of the inner wall is 0.5 meters. The inner wall of the outer wall is about 0.2 meters layer by layer, and the inner wall is about 0.3 meters from 2.0 meters above the ground. On the first floor, the exterior wall is made of stone, and on the top of it, it is made of three concrete slabs. The bottom layer is 1.2 meters thick, with an average of 12 rooms inside, each with a depth of 5.0 meters. On the second floor, the wall is 1.0 meters thick, and the Zhengbei room serves as the ancestral hall for Lin Shengze, the builder of Jinjiang tower. The front is a corridor, 1.6 meters wide, supported by square stone columns and wooden columns; the second floor is an inward corridor of wood structure, with three outer walls, 0.8 meters thick, without compartments, reaching the whole circle, and the inner side is supported by wooden columns. Eighteen groups of beams are set, and the beams are of bucket type. The other two groups of gables in the first room in the south are 20 groups in total. The first room in the south is a stairwell, and the stairway leads directly to the fourth floor of the main building The main building is equipped with two small doors on the left and right. Through the small doors, there are three floors of the roof. The roof has a two-way slope top. The external wall is 0.5 meters thick and 0.7 meters higher than the roof. It is a female wall type. The inside and the middle ridge of the roof are paved with big bricks for people to walk. Twenty granite chisels are set on the wall, with a length of 0.3 to 0.47 meters for drainage. The eaves purlin inside the building is supported by hard arch and main arch, which is about 0.5m long. The granite structure of the building door is fine, with three floors, flat top inside and outside, and middle-level ticket top. There are stone plaques on it, engraved with "Jinjiang tower" and "Yuegu building at the end of the reign of Emperor Qianlong in 1911". A canopy is set between the plaque and the main building in the central circle, which is composed of four beams and two groups of beam frames. It is a roll shed type and is now abandoned. There is a water channel near the plaque of the second floor external wall for foreign enemies to use fire. When the door is opened, water is injected to extinguish the fire. The diameter of the well in the building is 12.0 meters. There is a well in the building. A round hole is dug in the stone slab of the well cover, which can only be put into the bucket. All the buildings are well preserved.

The central circle has a plane diameter of 42 meters and a high floor. The inner wall is 0.5 meters thick and the outer wall is 1.0 meters thick. Each room has 24 compartments with a depth of 4.5 meters at a height of 2.6 meters. In front of each room, there is a canopy with a depth of 1.6 meters. One room in the south is the doorway, and the other three rooms are in a group. There are seven groups in total. The other two rooms in the north are the public hall. The middle of each room is the hall, and the left and right are bedrooms. It is a small kitchen made of wood. The door and the inner door are the same type, and they are located on the same central axis. The plaque on the door is engraved with "an LAN Zhuqing" and "the Moon Valley at the end of Jiaqing Guihai". On the door is a three-story gatehouse with two-way slope top. It can also climb up the building wall from the small doors on both sides of the gatehouse. The top of the building is an inward single slope top. The outer wall is 0.7 meters higher than the top of the building. A sidewalk with a width of 0.7 meters is also set along the wall to prevent punctuality.

The outer ring has a plane diameter of 58 meters and a two-way slope top. All of them are bungalows with a wall thickness of 0.45 meters. There are 37 rooms with a depth of 5.5 meters. The rooms are 2.7 meters wide and the halls are 3.6 meters wide. Each family has one hall and one to three rooms. It can be seen that they are organized by the family and built by each family. There are four drops between the outer ring and the middle ring, with a height of 0.2m. In front of the building, a 16.0-meter-wide passageway is reserved and three-layer brick Cheng is laid. A stage is 50.0 meters in front of the Cheng for worshiping ancestors and gods.

Jinjiang tower used to be the main location of the film "happy hero" and "the world of yin and Yang".

Jinjiang tower, as a family castle, the construction and expansion of the building, the distribution of the compartments in the building, and the extension and expansion of the two round buildings from the inside to the outside are the witness of the survival, reproduction and development of a family, which has certain research value in sociology.

The construction of Jinjiang tower is closely related to the history of Pirates rampant in the coastal areas of Southern Fujian in the Qing Dynasty, which is of great value to the study of the social, military and economic history of the coastal areas in the early Qing Dynasty.

Jinjiang building is rammed with the mixture of stone and concrete. The wall quality is heavy and high. So far, only a few slight cracks have appeared. The wood structure in the building is exquisite in materials, fine but not carved. As a defensive building, Jinjiang building has the ability of defending and attacking foreign enemies, fire prevention, burglary prevention, drainage and so on, which can be imagined by this kind of building form. During the Qianlong Jiaqing period, where earth buildings were built all over the south of Fujian, Jinjiang building, as a round building, is relatively mature in terms of plane layout, facade treatment and building materials To be imitated by the builders of earth buildings in the surrounding areas. Jinjianglou is also an important material for studying the development of Tulou in southwest Fujian.

Jinjiang building has three inner and outer circles. The highest inner building has four floors in the center, and the lowest is one floor in the outer circle. The appearance of the whole building is pyramid shaped. This unique architectural form is the only one in southwest Fujian. JUNHE building also adopts this form, which has high aesthetic value.

Jinjiang building includes all the space allocation forms of earth buildings in southwest Fujian. The inner ring of the two round buildings is a typical inner corridor type, and the bottom layer of the outer ring is a unit type, while the inner corridor type is preserved on the second floor, and the large corridor type is adopted, which reflects the trace of the transition from the inner corridor type to the unit type. In addition, the reconstruction of the outer ring by later generations shows the coordination between the distribution form of Tulou and the traditional living form.

The wall structure of jinjianglou is extremely strong, which may be the highest level of ramming technology with brown sugar and glutinous rice slurry. And a large number of wood structure, and form more, quite exquisite, many practices, unique, is the local contemporary wood carving art in the form of Tulou application model. And pay attention to the relationship between the primary and secondary, in the main space such as stairs, axis, added the decorative function of wood structure.

The building of Jinjiang is the essence of the architectural art of Southwest Fujian earth building. Its architectural form and architectural history have very high historical value, scientific value and unique artistic value, which embodies profound and multi historical and cultural connotations.

Legend of Jinjiang tower

Jinjiang tower is said to have been built by a man named Lin Shengze. In memory of him and his wife, later generations called them louzu and louzuma.

Lin Shengze is a loyal man who has been farming for generations. His father died early and he and his two younger brothers served his mother. Soon, his two younger brothers died one after another, and the whole family only depended on him for support. Later, he married a wife. His wife was very hardworking, virtuous and good at raising chickens. She asked Shengze to take the chickens to the fairs to sell them to make up for the family income. Sheng Ze got a reputation for selling chickens. He gradually didn't have enough to sell, so he became a chicken peddler. One day, when he went to sell chickens in the polder, he found a piece of cloth beside the chicken coop. He asked people all over the polder, but they didn't know who left it. So he had to take the cloth with him when he sold chickens in each polder to invite the Lord. After more than ten days, a Zhangzhou man came to his shoulder pole and asked him whether he wanted to sell the cloth hanging on the shoulder pole instead of buying chicken. Lin Shengze told him that he wanted to get it. The bearer frankly said that he had lost the cloth here more than ten days ago. He also said that there was a bill in the cloth. Once Shengze saw that it was completely in line, he gave it back to him. The man was so grateful that he introduced himself and said, "my name is Dai Jing. I live in the five-star jukuixia at the intersection of Zhangzhou." He knew that Lin Shengze's family was poor, so he suggested that Shengze transport the seafood here to Zhangzhou. He could help promote the sales, and then bring back the Zhangzhou goods. He could make a heavy profit, which was ten times better than selling chickens.

Lin Shengze listened to Dai Jing and changed his mind

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