kaiping diaolou

Kaiping Diaolou is a special residential form, mainly distributed in Kaiping, Guangdong. To be exact, Kaiping Diaolou is a pavilion-style residential building combining local culture with foreign culture, a unique local architectural type in China, and a multi-storey tower building integrating defense, residence and Chinese and Western architectural arts. The history of Kaiping Diaolou can be traced back to the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and even the 1920s and 1930s. The shape of the lower part of Kaiping Diaolou is almost the same, but the size and height are different. Large tower, each floor is equivalent to three bays, or even more; Small diaolou, each floor is only equivalent to a half-opened room. The tallest watchtower is the south tower of Chikan Township, which is as high as seven stories, while the short watchtower is only three stories, which is not much higher than ordinary buildings. The shape change of the watchtower mainly lies in the top of the tower. From the existing 1400 buildings in Kaiping, the shapes of roof buildings can be summarized as 100, but the more beautiful ones are Chinese roofs, mixed Chinese and western roofs, ancient Roman mountain flower roofs, domes, American castle roofs, European and American villa roofs, courtyard balcony roofs and so on. Kaiping Diaolou rarely reflects the extensive exchange of modern Chinese and western cultures in rural areas of China; It combines the unique architectural art of traditional rural architectural culture in China and western architectural culture, and becomes a memorial monument of overseas Chinese culture in China. This is also the most convincing historical testimony that China immigrant culture and different national cultures influenced each other, merged with each other and promoted the common development of mankind in that historical period. In 200 1 year, it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit. It was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2007.