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Who Said Houses Had To Be Round Anyway?
... style of communal living found in the Longhouses that I had seen in Borneo with living areas and storerooms surrounding a large communal courtyard with cooking areas. Some of these buildings they would hold entire clans in them!
Day 214: Tuesday 21st August 2012
Arriving at Liulian in Yongding County I was immediately greeted by a few touts. I had been warned to expect that though and for a change I was actually pleased to see them. See unlike normal ...
Living like a Hakka
... dirty and for some reason or another, I discovered (not in a good way), you must bring your own tissue paper to the bathroom. Surprise, Justin!
The Tulou's were beautiful even if it was raining. It almost even added to the effect of the old culture. Some tulous have been remodeled and been made into hotels to include electricity. Others remain tattered and on their last breath.
The pictures will tell all. Take a ...
Hakka Tulou's
Went for a day trip to Yongding County some 3 hours drive west of Xiamen. This area is home to hundreds and hundreds of round and square mud houses, ranging in time from the 1300's all the way to the 1940's. In some cases up to 100 familys can live in one building which is split into different levels, the ground for cooking, ...
Province du Fujian : les Tu Lou
... repartent vers 14h pour XIamen. Vous pourrez donc vous promenez dans les vallées et visiter tranquillement les Tu Lou avant 10h et après 14H.
Il semble que la fonction principale de ces Tu Lou était d'offrir un endroit protégé à tout un clan, à toute une famille, mais comme les Tu Lou sont situées dans les montagnes, il se pourrait que ces Tu Lou servaient tout simplement à regrouper les familles, à mettre en ...
Round houses and Rodents
... Made of compacted earth they look at bit like medieval forts and serve as communal living buildings, a kind of ancient apartment block really. They all seem to follow the same standard format, with an ancestral hall for worshiping and individual family kitchens around the ground floor, and then sleeping quarters upstairs. Some of them were enormous, housing dozens of families, totaling hundreds of people, not to mention lots of chickens, pigs, ...
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