Fujian Tulou (Nanjing) Scenic Area

The prototype of the place where Chun lives in the film 'Big Fish & Begonia' comes from the Fujian Tulou - Chengqi Lou, the king of buildings. Many people who come to Tulou for the first time will hesitate whether to go to Nanjing Tulou or Yongding Tulou. Considering the convenience of transportation and the diversity of Tulou types, it is recommended to choose Nanjing Tulou, because you can go to Yunshuiyao for a leisurely walk, see the Big Fish & Begonia version of Tulou, and see the 'Four Dishes and One Soup' often seen in Tulou promotional films. Fujian Tulou is mostly built by Hakka people, so it is also called Hakka Tulou. Because most of the Hakka people migrated from the Central Plains, they were deeply influenced by the culture of the Central Plains. During the migration process, in order to survive, they had to face various life hardships, so they built houses according to the Bagua. A Tulou is the center of a family's cohesion. The special nature of Hakka Tulou's collective living reflects the strong family ethics of the Hakka people. Route: Xiamen-Yunshuiyao Ancient Town-Taxia Village (accommodation)-Yuchang Lou-Tianluokeng Tulou Cluster-Zhangzhou or Xiamen Transportation: Prefer self-driving, public transportation is not very convenient Precautions: If you want to go upstairs, you need to pay the local villagers 5-20 yuan, depending on the off-peak season and the number of people you travel with, after all, it is indeed their current accommodation. First stop: Yunshuiyao was built in the Yuan Dynasty, with a 10-kilometer-long ancient road paved with cobblestones. Many TV shows and movies have been filmed here. Walking around Yunshuiyao, you can see many different types of Tulou clusters, including Hegui Lou, Huaiyuan Lou and other Tulous. Hegui Lou is the tallest square building among all Fujian Tulous (many are round). But what is truly amazing is that the entire building is actually built on a 3000 square meter swamp, with only more than 200 pine piles and pads underneath, and Hegui Lou has stood on this huge floating bed for more than 200 years, amazing! Accommodation: There are many homestays in Taxia Village, you can choose at will, the village is very comfortable, there are many places to eat, you can eat Zhangzhou specialty dishes at will. It's just that sometimes when there are too many cars, the road is narrow and it's not easy to drive. Second stop: Yuchang Lou, Nanjing Yuchang Lou is a very old and largest round Tulou, built in 1368, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. I posted a video before, it's very spectacular. The pillars are leaning east and west, with a maximum inclination of 15 degrees, it looks shaky, but it has stood up after countless earthquakes! Third stop: Tianluokeng Tulou Cluster, Tianluokeng is an excellent place to appreciate the local natural environment. Because its appearance is four round buildings surrounding a square building, it is also jokingly called 'Four Dishes and One Soup' by people. The five Tulous are said to represent gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. You can enjoy the view from the viewing platform, or you can go down the mountain from the viewing platform to the inside of the Tulou one by one

The Fujian Tulou  is a Unesco World Heritage site. A Tulou is a type of dwelling built  in the mountains of southern Fujian. A Tulou is a large round, enclosed structure that is usually circular or rectangular in shape and is used to house multiple families. They are usually between 2 to 5 storeys high and the largest Tulou can hold up to a hundred families. Every family in the Tulou community enjoys perfect equality because every room in a Tulou is the same size and has exactly the same design. You can get to Fujian Tulou by car, train or bus. We hired a driver for the day so it was very convenient to travel between the different Tulous. This is a very unique experience and I would highly recommend it to anyone. #summervacation

#hiddengems Fujian Tulou, inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, are extraordinary examples of traditional Chinese architecture nestled in the Fujian province of China. These unique earthen buildings, constructed by the Hakka and Minnan communities centuries ago, stand as remarkable testaments to their ingenuity, communal living, and defensive capabilities. The Tulou are massive circular or square structures, fortified with thick walls and featuring inner courtyards, housing multiple families and providing protection against external threats. Each Tulou is a self-contained village, with living quarters, communal areas, and spaces for agricultural activities, reflecting the collective lifestyle of its inhabitants. These architectural marvels are not only significant for their structural design but also for their cultural and historical importance. They represent the harmonious coexistence between humans and nature, as well as the resilience and adaptability of traditional communities. Visitors to Fujian Tulou are treated to a glimpse of a bygone era, where time seems to stand still amidst the tranquil countryside. Exploring these ancient settlements offers a profound insight into the rich heritage and cultural diversity of China, making it a must-visit destination for history enthusiasts and cultural travelers alike. #FujianTulou #UNESCOWorldHeritageSites #ChineseArchitecture #HakkaCulture #MinnanCommunity #TraditionalLiving #CulturalHeritage #HistoricalSignificance #ArchitecturalMarvels #CommunityLiving #CulturalDiversity #TravelInspiration #Wanderlust #BucketListDestination #CulturalExploration #HistoricSites #TimelessBeauty #NatureandCulture

5A South Jing Tu Lou Scenic Area is a very historical scenic area, where you can fully understand the culture and life of the Hakka people. They unite to resist foreign enemies, they are hardworking and enduring, and they have built their own magical round houses and live here. The four round houses surrounding a square house are called 'four dishes and one soup' by people.

Nestled in the scenic landscapes of Fujian Province, Fujian Tulou stands as a testament to the ingenuity and communal spirit of the Hakka people. 🌳 These unique earthen structures, designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, date back centuries and continue to captivate visitors with their architectural charm and cultural significance. Fujian Tulou, or "earthen buildings," are large, round, or square communal residences built with rammed earth, wood, and bamboo. 🏡 These fortified dwellings served as homes, temples, and clan halls for multiple families, offering protection against bandits and natural disasters. The intricate craftsmanship of Fujian Tulou reflects the Hakka people's deep connection to their surroundings and their commitment to sustainability. 🌱 The circular layout fosters a sense of unity and harmony among residents, while the thick earthen walls provide insulation and protection from the elements. Visitors to Fujian Tulou can explore a variety of architectural styles, from the iconic "round houses" of Chengqi Lou to the grandeur of the "square houses" of Zhencheng Lou. 🔄 Each Tulou is adorned with ornate carvings, traditional paintings, and symbolic motifs that offer insights into Hakka culture and beliefs. As you wander through the narrow corridors and spacious courtyards of Fujian Tulou, you'll be transported to a bygone era of communal living and shared heritage. 🌿 The timeless beauty and cultural significance of these earthen structures make Fujian Tulou a must-visit destination for travelers seeking to delve into China's rich history and architectural wonders. #FujianTulou #HakkaCulture #UNESCOWorldHeritage #ArchitecturalWonders #CulturalHeritage 🇨🇳

Zhangzhou, a city with a long history and enchanting natural scenery! It boasts both the artistic and fresh coastal views and the unique and spectacular Tulou buildings, making it a Minnan town full of life and an old-timey atmosphere~ 🚘Transportation Guide ✈️Plane: First take a flight to Xiamen Gaoqi Airport→Transfer to a high-speed train to Zhangzhou Station 🚄High-speed train: Take a train to Zhangzhou Station, or Yunxiao Station, Nanjing Station, etc. 🚌City: Mainly by bus/taxi/ride-hailing/electric bike . 3 Days and 2 Nights Itinerary Day1: Lingtong Mountain-Zhangzhou Ancient City-Yanan South Road Day2: Dongshan Island-Fengdong Stone Scenic Area-Nanyu-Nanmen Bay-Ding Street Day3: Nanjing Tulou-Yunshuiyao Ancient Town . 【Essential Attractions】: 1️⃣Zhangzhou Ancient City: The district has preserved three major types of ancient residential buildings: arcade-style shops, Sino-Western hybrid architecture, and Minnan-style houses 2️⃣Yunshuiyao Ancient Town: A historic village with a long history, it preserves a wealth of Tulou architecture and a strong Hakka culture 3️⃣Dongshan Island Filming location for movies like 'The Left Ear' and 'Your Wedding', featuring white sandy beaches, clear waters, exciting water sports, and a rich marine landscape 4️⃣Nanjing Tulou Scenic Area Known as a 'world architectural wonder', the Tulou cluster includes various shapes of Tulou buildings, and is the filming location for 'Big Fish & Begonia'! Check out the Tianluokeng 'Four Dishes and One Soup', and the 'leaning' Yuchang Building 5️⃣Lingtong Mountain A place of strong incense, where after a rain, one might catch a glimpse of the temple hanging amidst a sea of clouds, and even encounter the famous spectacle of 'Rain Transforms into a Curtain of Beads' 🍜Food Recommendations Oyster omelette, hand-grabbed noodles, mochi, salty rice pudding, braised noodles, four-fruit soup, cotton candy ice, oyster pancake, braised noodles, pot-side paste, sweet soup, satay noodles, turnip cake, roast pork rice dumplings, Ah Jun tofu pudding, mochi 🏠Accommodation Recommendations 1. Zhangzhou City Area: Stay inside Zhangzhou Ancient City, where there's plenty of food, lively at night, and great value for money 2. Dongshan Island: It's recommended to stay near Tongling Town or Nanmen Bay, close to various attractions, with convenient transportation and dining 3. Nanjing Tulou: Recommended homestays near Yunshuiyao, for a quiet, artistic, and slow-paced life Tips 1. The attractions in Zhangzhou are far apart, it is recommended to self-drive/charter a car/join a tour group for convenience 2. On Dongshan Island, you can ride a small electric scooter🛵, less than a hundred yuan for 24 hours

A love but not get, deep affection but regrettable 'Yunshuiyao' let Nanjing's Changjiao renamed Yunshuiyao. A love for love, silent but better than a thousand words 'Big Fish Begonia' let Nanjing's Tulou become a kind of yearning. Ctrip's Nanjing one-day tour is basically divided into two types: A: Yunshuiyao Ancient Town Scenic Area + Tulou Light Cultural Park + Tulou King Scenic Area (Longyan Gaobei Tulou Group) B: Yunshuiyao Ancient Town Scenic Area + Tianluokeng Tulou Group Scenic Area (Four dishes and one soup + East to West) + Taixia Ancient Village. Among them, Yunshuiyao Scenic Area includes Huaiyuan Building, Hegui Building and Yunshuiyao. The Tulou King Scenic Area includes Chengqi Building, Qiaofu Building, Shize Building and Wuyun Building. Tianluokeng Tulou Group includes four dishes and one soup and Yuchang Building. Taixia Ancient Village includes a road of ancient village small earth building, more than 400 years of family temple and puppet show. Line A is from south to north and then to the Tulou King Scenic Area, Line B is from north to south and then to Tianluokeng and Taixia Ancient Village. Huaiyuan Building, is the best preserved and most cultural connotation of the double ring circular earth building in Nanjing, is also the largest volume of the earth building. The two biggest points in Huaiyuan Building are the 'This is the room' in the building, and the gold-engraved couplets on both sides of the main hall 'The moon moves over the flowers, the wind comes to the bamboo' and 'The good plan in the world is reading and farming, the good deed in the world is loyalty to filial piety' fully reflect the Confucian thought of respecting ancestors and emphasizing education. And the left 'well' and right 'copper money' of the two sides of the glass window 'The future is like a brocade' explains the Tao clearly. Hegui Building, the ugliest but also known as 'the first strange building in the world'. Ugly because the front of the earth building has two obvious cracks, strange because it is built on a swamp, and there are two wells of Yin (clear) and Yang (turbid). In front of the Guanyin Hall is a piece of broken stone paved land, which is a swamp. It is said that if more people jump on it, the whole earth building will shake with it. This is where Qiu's home is in 'Big Fish Begonia'. Yunshuiyao Ancient Town, this is a place with quiet water, tranquil ancient banyan trees, long ancient plank roads and the good old days in the hearts of tourists. Whether it's the stone embankment connecting the two sides of the river, or the big water wheel silently waiting under the banyan tree, or the old earth house with mottled decay, every place, every point, seems to have you and me in the past... Chengqi Building, known as 'the king of round buildings', is the core of the Gaobei earth building group. Chengqi Building is east to the square earth building Shize Building and Wuyun Building, and west to the round earth building Qiaofu Building. Chengqi Building also has a story of aunt and sister-in-law praising the building, also known as the city of family. This is where Chun's family holds ceremonies and sacrifices in 'Big Fish Begonia'. Shize Building is a rectangular earth building, Wuyun Building is an earth building without stone wall foundation, and Qiaofu Building is a new type of earth building combining Chinese and Western styles. Tulou Light Cultural Park, a museum of earth building culture with exhibits from historical periods. Tianluokeng Tulou Group, commonly known as four dishes and one soup, consists of a square building, three round buildings and an oval building. With the distant green mountains, the view from above looks like a rich family feast. When you walk to the middle of the mountain, the layers of thick yellow in the distance look like a palace, which the locals jokingly call Nanjing's Potala. Yuchang Building, known as 'the mother of earth building', is famous for its 'east to west for 700 years'. East to west refers to the clockwise tilt of the pillars of the corridor on the third and fourth floors, and the counterclockwise tilt of the pillars of the corridor on the fifth floor, with the maximum tilt angle reaching 15 degrees. Inside the earth building, there is a kind of glutinous rice wine called earth building cola for sale, which is sweet and refreshing, but you can only walk out of the earth building in a daze. Taixia Ancient Village, a typical Hakka village, is built in the 'two mountains and water, iron fan closed door' Tai Chi pattern of the ancient village. What's amazing is that in such a typical Hakka village, there are also Zhejiang-Hangzhou water town style stilted buildings, high and low, large buildings with small buildings. The village has a 400-year-old De Yuan Tang and a stone dragon flagpole that marks the Hakka culture's adherence to and inheritance of the Central Plains culture, and the Hakka puppet show performed next to Zhang's family temple adds to the historical depth of the ancient village. Line A, is a trip to see the earth building to vomit. Line B, is a trip that combines history, culture and beautiful scenery, and is also my favorite trip.

| Zhangzhou is waiting for you. Wow, Zhangzhou really is a city hidden with countless treasures! ❗️ It was incorporated into the central territory during the Qin Dynasty and became the birthplace of Southern Fujian culture, truly a witness to history. 🏝 Compared to Xiamen, Zhangzhou has more beautiful islands, historic earthen buildings, and delicious food that satisfies the gluttonous stomach. The travel guide is ready, if you don't know where to go for the National Day, get your bags ready! 🐎 2 days and 1 night, ready to leave at any time! 【Transportation】🍃🍃 🚄 Nanjing Station (near Nanjing Tulou) is the first choice, you can rent a car if driving, and pick up the car near the high-speed rail station. Since the attractions in Zhangzhou are far apart, it's more convenient to have a car. To get to Nanjing Tulou, there is a mountain road that requires an experienced driver. 【Route】🍃🍃 ☑️ Day1: Nanjing Tulou (Yunshuiyao or Tianluokeng) -- Zhangzhou Ancient City ☑️ Day2: Dongshan Island *Tulou recommendation is Yunshuiyao for its greater fame; you can also choose to go to Tianluokeng. Folklore enthusiasts can visit both, the two attractions are a half-hour drive apart. 【Attractions】🍃🍃 ❶ Yunshuiyao Scenic Area 🎫 Ticket price is 90 yuan, estimated 2 hours for a visit ➠ Filming location of 'Big Fish & Begonia', home to the tallest earthen building in Fujian. ➠ Main attractions include Yunshuiyao Ancient Town, Huaiyuan Building, and Hegui Building. ➠ It is recommended to visit Hegui Building first, as it is less crowded and has a unique view. ➠ Generally, residents charge ¥5/10 for a visit inside the building 🥘 Food recommendation: Chunyan Restaurant ❸ Zhangzhou Ancient City (rich in traditional delicacies) 🚄 Near Zhangzhou Station 🎫 Free admission, estimated half a day for a visit ➠ Recommended route: Yan'an South Road → Zhangzhou Confucian Temple → Hong Kong Street → Ancestral Temple → Zhencheng Port → Zhongshan Park ➠ Food recommendations: 🥘 Confucian Temple Juice, Mochi Shun 🥘 Old Zheng Meat Skewers, Aqin Beef 🥘 Ajun Tofu Pudding, Old Guo Triangle Kuih 🥘 Qingnian Road Pot Edge Paste, Jianguo Oyster Pancake Oyster Noodles 🥘 Li Tai Busy Salt Baked Pistol Leg, Qingye Egg Burger 🥘 Monk Park Dried Bean Noodles, Original Park Back Door Four Fruit Soup ❷ Dongshan Island 🚄 Near Yunxiao Station, take bus 15 after getting off the high-speed rail🚌. ➠ Jinluan Bay: Recommended for sunrise viewing ➠ Nanmen Bay: Filming location of the movie 'The Left Ear', recommended to go for the sunset around 4-5 pm. ➠ Nanyu Lighthouse: Filming location of 'Your Wedding', view the lighthouse during low tide. ➠ You can ride electric scooters on the island 🛵, less than 100 yuan for 24 hours. 🍢 Food: 🥘 I Want to Be Quiet Courtyard, Chen Ji Meatball Old Store 🥘 Awei Sister's Stir Fry, Lianyi Oyster Pancake 【Accommodation】🍃🍃 It is recommended to stay near Zhangzhou Ancient City to experience the slow life of Southern Fujian. The ancient city is where local residents go to cool off at night, full of life and atmosphere. The prices are also relatively affordable.

Tulou (土楼) are massive round or square earthen buildings constructed by Hakka people throughout south China, particularly in inland Fujian. Built for residential and defensive purposes, they were home to one or more clans comprising several families, with individual apartments facing inwards to a common courtyard. Some are still inhabited nowadays while others are in poor condition, but they're now one of the most popular tourist attractions in the area and well worth visiting. Getting There - The tulou are scattered throughout the countryside, so it's difficult to visit them without a car. We took the train from Xiamen to Nanjing (南靖 — not to be confused with the former capital Nanjing 南京) where we found many drivers. We negotiated a route and price with one driver, who took us first to a guesthouse (not included in the price) and then on an excellent one day tour of several Hakka villages. This was probably the most flexible way to see the area without our own car and the price was reasonable. Note that it's also necessary to buy a ticket to the tulou area; the funds raised by these passes supposedly go towards preservation of the ancient buildings. Attractions - As well as the tulou, there are ancient temples and high terraced fields, making this a great place for photography. Hotels - There are many guesthouses and small hotels in the area, including some inside tulou themselves. We stayed in the hotel recommended by our driver, which was clean and comfortable and run by a very friendly local couple. Food & Restaurants - Many guesthouses offer food and there are many other restaurants catering for the crowds of tourists who visit this area. Shopping - Inside the tulou many families have opened small shops selling tea and other local produce, handicrafts and knick-knacks. Many of the tea shops offer a chance to taste several different kinds of Fujianese tea (our driver took us to a couple of places for tasting.) #solstice #summervacation #urbanexplorer

A day tour in Nanjing Tulou which inscribed in 2008 by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites and it was named National 5A scenic spot in 2011 include Tianluokeng Tulou cluster(consisting of four rotundas and a square tulou in the center), Yuchanglou(the oldest tulou built in 1308), Taxia Village, Yunshuiyao, Heguilou and Huaiyuanlou(tulou built in drum shape). #hiddengems #visitchina #awesomepic #travelwithgeo #fujiantulou