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About Hongkeng Tulou Cluster
Hongkeng Tulou Cluster (洪坑土楼群) is a group of earthen tulou buildings in Hongkeng Village (洪坑村), Hukeng Town (湖坑镇), in Yongding District (永定区) of Longyan (龙岩), Fujian, built between the Qing dynasty and modern times.
The cluster takes in Zhencheng Lou (振成楼), Fuyu Lou (福裕楼), Kuiju Lou (奎聚楼), Guangyu Lou (光裕楼), Rusheng Lou (如升楼), Jingyang Lou (景阳楼), Qingcheng Lou (庆成楼), Fuxing Lou (福兴楼), Yucheng Lou (玉成楼) and Qingfu Lou (庆福楼). Besides the houses, the provincial listing covers the village's Tianhou Temple (天后宫), the Rixin School (日新学堂), a primary school of the Lin clan, and the Lin clan ancestral hall (林氏宗祠).
Zhencheng Lou, nicknamed the "prince of tulou", is a round building in the south-central part of the village. Lin Hongchao (林鸿超) and his brothers, of the 21st generation of Hongkeng's Lin (林) clan and descendants of a wealthy tobacco merchant, put it up in 1912, the first year of the Republic. It has two rings laid out on the Bagua (八卦), the eight trigrams: a four-storey outer ring of 184 rooms and a two-storey inner ring of 32. Yongding County protected it in 1988 and Fujian province in 1991.
Rusheng Lou is a miniature round tulou only 18.2 m across. Fuyu Lou takes the mansion form (府第式): its blocks rise and fall in an ordered way with main and secondary parts clearly ranked, and the interior is split into three large units. In 2001 Zhencheng Lou, Fuyu Lou and Kuiju Lou were named together, as typical Fujian tulou, in the fifth batch of national key cultural relic sites. The cluster joined the World Heritage List with the other Fujian tulou sites in 2008, and Fujian added the whole cluster to its seventh batch of provincial protected sites in 2009.
What to look for
- Zhencheng Lou (振成楼), the 1912 double-ring round tulou called the "prince of tulou", laid out on the eight trigrams
- Rusheng Lou (如升楼), a miniature round tulou 18.2 m in diameter
- Fuyu Lou (福裕楼), a mansion-style tulou divided into three units
- Kuiju Lou (奎聚楼), one of the three buildings listed nationally in 2001
- The Lin clan ancestral hall (林氏宗祠) and the Rixin School (日新学堂), the clan's old primary school
- Tianhou Temple (天后宫) in the village
Location & getting there
Getting to Hongkeng Tulou Cluster
- Search for 洪坑土楼群 with 龙岩市 and 永定区.
Find Hongkeng Tulou Cluster
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