In which dynasty did Fujian Tulou begin? Why is it called Hakka Tulou?

Fujian Tulou began in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Because Fujian Tulou is a large-scale group building supported by rammed earth walls, it is also called Hakka Tulou.

Introduction of Fujian Tulou:

Fujian Tulou is mainly located in Zhangzhou City, Longyan City and Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, including Nanjing Tulou, Yongding Tulou, Huaan Tulou, Pinghe Tulou, Zhaoan Tulou and Quanzhou Tulou. There are more than 30 kinds of earth buildings, such as round building, square building, pentagonal building, octagonal building and diaojiao building, with more than 23,000 seats.

Fujian Tulou originated from barracks, castles and cottages when Chen Yuanguang opened its port in Tang Dynasty, and matured in the late Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. It is the product of the special social environment in southern Fujian since the Tang Dynasty. Fujian Tulou is a two-story building with adobe, wood, stone and bamboo as the main building materials, mixed with unbaked soil, sandy clay and clayey sand in a certain proportion, and rammed with sandwich plates.

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The development history of Fujian tulou;

Song and Yuan Dynasties (1 1 century ~13rd century) were the formation stages of Fujian tulou. The early earth buildings were small in scale, simple in structure, mostly without stone walls and rough in decoration, and basically square and rectangular in form. With regard to the oldest tulou, the earliest document that recorded tulou was the reconstruction of Gan Tai Zhi.

In the Ming Dynasty (from the end of 14 to the beginning of 17), with the development of economy and culture, residents paid more and more attention to education, and it gradually became a trend to set up learning museums and academies to persuade people to enter school. Through the imperial examination, officials emerged constantly. These official residences, which have made great progress, are built with earth buildings according to the architectural regulations of Datong, the capital of the Central Plains, with increasingly sophisticated architectural forms and diversified functions.

During the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China (/kloc-from the middle of the 7th century to the first half of the 20th century), the tobacco and tea processing industries in southern Fujian developed vigorously and were sold to the whole country and Southeast Asian countries. With the development of economy and the improvement of understanding of ecological environment, residents' demand for housing is more urgent and higher. On the other hand, due to the population growth, in order to safeguard the interests of the family, it is necessary to build larger buildings.

Let dozens or hundreds of people live together. To adapt to the prosperity of the family and the safety of life. So they built palace-style earth buildings, squares, circles and other earth buildings. It is characterized by large scale and many types. In the later period, the influence of foreign culture was reflected in the construction of some earth buildings.

After 1950s, residents in this area still built a large number of earth buildings, which have continued to this day. Earth buildings in this period paid more attention to practicality, simple structure and lack of gorgeous decoration.

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