One-day tour of Kaiping Diaolou

The tour guide of Kaiping Diaolou recommended the online celebrity toilets in Gigi Lai Village and Zuzhai Village.

Gigi Lai village 1

Gigi Lai Village has 15 watchtowers with different styles, exquisite shapes and rich connotations, and is an outstanding representative of Kaiping watchtower in its heyday. However, it seems that only Shi Ming Tower, Ye Sheng Road and Lansheng Road can be visited by tourists. Perhaps the most famous is the Shi Ming Tower. In the movie "Let Bullets Fly", Huang Shirang stood in Shi Ming Building, observed the new county magistrate coming to Goose City through a telescope, and shouted the classic line "Domineering".

2. Internet celebrity toilets in Zuzhai Village

"This is not just a toilet", a rural toilet rebuilt on the original site, which combines the elements of rural revitalization and memory inheritance, and has become a punching point among online celebrities. If you don't have enough time, you don't have to punch in.

The Cultural Value of Kaiping Diaolou

Kaiping Diaolou is the most typical representative of the cultural characteristics of overseas Chinese in China. Overseas Chinese are disseminators of culture. The blending and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures is the inevitable product of its development, and the cultural conflict it brings will inevitably touch all aspects and classes of China's traditional society, which is also the same law of the world's immigrant culture. This kind of cultural conflict and blending is vividly displayed in Kaiping. It still maintains its own tradition, and the local architecture with the integration of Chinese and western architectural cultures is rare in rural areas, mainly concentrated in counties and towns.

Kaiping Diaolou embodies the traditional environmental awareness and geomantic concept of overseas Chinese. It is the perfect combination of planning, architecture, natural environment and humanistic ideas. It is a single building, mainly distributed behind the village, and forms a deep-rooted, peaceful, prosperous and culturally harmonious environment with the surrounding bamboo forests, ponds in front of the village and banyan trees at the entrance of the village.

The combination of tower and residential buildings, like the backer of the whole village in plain area, meets the psychological needs of villagers for safety protection. The transition from low to high from folk houses to watchtowers expresses the villagers' desire to "rise step by step".

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Kaiping Diaolou.