In my nearly 10 years of self-tour, there are surprised by their country's natural landscape, some of its human geography grovel, while the Earth Building such a sight to behold fairy attracted me to re-explore its hosting the Games.
Earthen first impression from the stamp - Fujian homes come on, then I think the Fujian people are living in this round of the castle; but I am determined to travel to the self-help is a Japanese friend, he After returning from the Tulou and kept in front of me to show off his experience, adding that in the Earthen encounter more than the Japanese than the Chinese! I chose the National Day holiday, pick up the beloved backpack, to Fujian to enter.
Learned from the Internet, Earthen mainly concentrated in Yongding County in western Fujian, but also the best preserved. But my first stop is in Xiamen. Xiamen is a very mature, high profile tourist destination. For me, the most attractive place is the Gulangyu. This small island less than two square kilometers of the nation where the piano has the highest rate of the island is also very high quality of the residents, it seems that breathing the air in both beating and moving musical notes. In Xiamen, the majority of the time spent in Gulangyu and did not deliberately look for any spots, but the grass on the shore to listen to the birds, smell flowers, look at the wizard attached to music, the rhythmic waves slapped against the shore, stone is not that the kind of beautiful to enjoy do?
From Xiamen, Zhangzhou to go through the Yongding. Pakistan car on the bumpy, rugged mountain more than three hours, and finally into the Yongding County. A bend in the foothills of the car when, in my eyes the sudden a dark and round the castle, which swept away the fatigue of my journey the air: I finally see Tulou a! After the car climbed over a few hills, a sight that made me marvel: a do Earthen such as UFO descended from the sky, and as a huge mushroom stand, square, and round, high, low, and large, small, patchwork, in a remote mountain stream washing quietly experiencing the years, but also faithfully recorded the various stories on earth.
I have a very focused small village Earthen out of the car was about 17 o'clock, has not attend to examine the transport and lodging this evening where a question of, at worst to stay one night at the roadside. (In fact, my previous travels often this happens) and get off just with an excited heart, was never expected to leave the next day when, will this small village Nanshenanfen.
Get off, they found that they had completely Earthen ocean, and a variety of Earthen silently watching me this uninvited guest. I picked a seat the largest Earthen - Chaintech floor, first to buy tickets (10 million) to go look inside. Earthen a total of four layers, more than 20 meters high, round from the inside to the outside of the four laps, which floor, 80 meters in diameter. The first level is the first lap the living room and bedroom, people generally live in 3rd floor or 4th floor, each floor with 72 rooms. The second circle is mainly the kitchen, the third lap put debris or raising some chickens and ducks. The innermost circle is the ancestral tablets of their ancestors stood for, but also throughout the Hakka organizations and foreign friends of the donations, I still see the windows of a Hakka: Mr. Jiang Jingbo (a professor at Sun Yat-sen) to write articles, His mother describes the life of ordinary and great, very touching, thanks to next Earthen managers talk endlessly, or my tears would fall off.
Earthen four directions are the Old and built four wood staircase to the middle of things 2 position Earthen dug two wells, the whole floor of the water depends on this well, it is also said to Dongnuanxialiang. Earthen did not use a whole brick, but the storms in history to stand up for centuries, and even more amazing is that in another village, a very floor ring cracked in an earthquake, the earthquake itself together again after the unexpectedly slow on the! Have heard a lot of building scientists at home and abroad for this appearance does not look nice "flying saucer" had a strong interest in the study of archaeological came in batches. If one also came to the Academy of architectural selection, Hakka Brothers win glory for our nation is estimated that not a problem.
Chaintech floor, there are now 380 years of history, but now home to more than 200 people. They are named River (the entire high-head are of the same ancestral village). Hakka people in ancient times from the Central Plains south to escape the war, to the Guangdong and Fujian provinces to settle down, they have maintained an indomitable fighting spirit of unity and mutual love, making Hakka economic development in various places may play a significant role. Hakka Earth Buildings made of round or square appearance, not so much in order to prevent foreign invasion, might as well be said to unite the best Hakka notes.
When I visited at the bottom, has more than 5 pm, and a lot of Hakka people are busy cooking or feeding chickens and ducks, some children are at home to help with household chores. Poetry and a typical rural good! While memories of my childhood, when intoxicated, suddenly a little girl carrying a basket full of a persimmon walked over from the main entrance, are laborious to Kuaguomenjian living room into her home, but the threshold for her may be a bit high , I quickly stepped forward to help her put into the basket, the little girl with bright eyes staring at me Huolei Feng, and did not say thank you. Then her mother came out from the kitchen, friendly eyes suddenly shortened the distance between the two sides. Mistress put on a clean tea is not very refined, and produced its own bubble of the pot of tea. I felt the tea warm hospitality of the Hakka. At tea time, the hostess introduced me to some of Earthen and her family: The man of the house has to go out to work, they have three children, two men and a woman. Yuehua Jian, the two little boys came in from the outside, needless to say, this is certainly her child. The eldest son is called Zhi Jian Jiang, the first junior high, he and his mother said a few (Hakka dialect I know nothing about) and then a very friendly manner told me to take me upstairs to visit. Incidentally, when we went to the third floor to visit Zhi Jian Jiang's bedroom, the room only one bed, a desk, in upper berth is the wood, windows small, rooms are simple but clean and tidy.
When the last ray of sunshine in the Tulou Dailv roof disappeared, I suddenly want to sleep one night in Earthen years to increase awareness of this culture. I asked whether there is room rentable Zhijian Lou, the answer is unfortunately negative, only later that I learned to Earthen visitors who are often, but few could be down more than 1 hour, the live-in is rare. On the one hand because of the capacity to receive a very poor village, traffic is not convenient, are even more important reason is that most visitors would think Earthen not worth to spend too much time and money, I am afraid that this is caused by China's Tulou well-known in Japan than in China also reasons for the high bar. Chi-kin, the next sentence make me ecstatic, "Do not worry, you can live in my house." Downstairs later, his mother also agreed to the request of my live and stay with me to eat dinner, meals are simple, but I particularly tasty to eat.
Dinner, Chi-kin take me to the building to the other people to come to turn full circle, all of the Hakka people are welcome to my arrival, guests are no exception pale fragrant tea, and I put a lot of problems with each of them obviously they all live on my great surprise, said. Visited a lap down, and there met a few friends, one of which is a high school sophomore girls: Jiang Weidong, she claimed to be King of Children Chaintech floor, because she was larger than their peers have gone to school or working outside of the. I have seen in the building is the most modern TV sets, and the villagers no activity at night, usually watch TV, chat, mend clothes, they rest, but please do not use city people's eyes to the evaluation of their nightlife.
I propose a walk outside the building to see the night view of the village, several little boys hit it off instantly. In their leadership, I visited a cottage-style tea processing factory, in the owner's permission, bumbling fried a few to labor for harvesting is the master sent a pouch of tea. Out of the tea house, and we study together the arrangements for tomorrow. Because I am leaving tomorrow at noon, so they put forward many of the programs such as swimming, visits to their schools, fishing, Deng Jun canceled due to the time and finally we decided to go to the mountains to the barbecue and Zhai persimmon.
Back to the Tulou before 9:00 or so, but many people have fallen asleep, and we gently climb up a few buildings, all had their own back into the house rest. Earthen structures are really wonderful, or the National Day period, the daytime hot, but very cool at night. Bed bringing a moonlight with me into the sweet dreams.
Early the next day, a few of the little guys to come knocking. Let us first turn in a circle out of the village and visited several other Tulou, square the circle of all. Villagers Qide Zao, many people are out of work. I found some places in the village was also covered in their own lives inside red brick buildings, so ask the kids are even more willing to live Earthen red-brick building is still Tulou their answers vary, but let me surprise is that most of them more want to leave the earth storied, like the city people live in houses like! I am not a research scientist in rural areas, their homes do not have much understanding of mentality, but the pursuit of a better life beyond reproach, but also necessary. Any reason why we use every day, the Internet, cell phones, aircraft and ships ride, but to ask our brothers to continue in the daily lives of the peasants are not very convenient to state? It reminds me of a humorous abroad: a visitors are very interested in logging to a hard-worker is being asked: "You are, in this day, green grass, fine spring mountain stream in a beautiful land, basking in the sun Slowly spend it? "workers stare at her, Meihao Qi said:" I can not so laid-back. However, my family's dog Daoshi do every day. "
After breakfast, we took some of the tools on up the mountains. Day the weather good, bright and sunny. We talked and laughed all the way, a short while went to the hillside. Plum trees at the roadside trees, and the fruit has been done. Has been accompanied by the boy rushed forward and then plucked several short while back, pick the largest to me. Longer follow the paragraph, I see that side of the road a few bundles purple wildflowers, Chi-kin came forward, picked Jiduo fed years, said they could eat, I was shocked, but still dubious about the school they flower petals into the mouth, Suddenly, a surge of sweet smell filled the whole mouth. While the nature of the delicious taste while listening to them talk about all the knowledge of the mountains, knowing how to distinguish poisonous snakes, and learn what kind of grass can be used to stop bleeding ...... up to the summit, I looked back, Zuozuo Tulou like a beautiful mushrooms growing on lush mountain village where, like Xianjing.
One of the aims is to help the mountains Hakka friends work, and I was a boy leading the way, the arrived at her house Weidong kinds of fruit trees forest, saw Keke are covered with fruit trees that will be cooked immature persimmon, looking ahead , several other foot is planted persimmon trees. It is understood that these are the kinds of locals in order to increase revenue. Eat a few ripe persimmon, as remuneration for labor, we get to work by. To first understand what can be taken and what can not adopt, to the generally low standing directly on the ground can pick that, while the height of the fruit can only be used on the tool. Tool is a long sticks, the top tied razor blades. I think they are very skilled, posture is also beautiful, and wanted to experience the wisdom of people - tool. Unexpectedly get half a day, little effect was clearly trying to be cooked two large persimmon cut off, next to him a few small fruit is not ripe for giving me scrambling to demonstrate what Newton's gravitation. Finally, I put aside tool, one off the shoes, using the original method of Quzhai --- and trees. To "take the Persimmon Tori, the leisurely see Tulou", had more than an hour, Weidong Zhai family trees have been completely finished, her mother forced upon me a few gray on the lug two baskets down the persimmons. Barbecue materials --- to find sweet potatoes in the way I saw last night has been done by passing a Hakka women in the mining tea, then let go the small partners in their own sweet potatoes, let me help pick tea leaves. Fujian is a province of tea, which the village people are basically their own kinds of points of tea. I first understand what the leaves can be picked, as well as picking the way, we picked up a Xiaokuang, in the bright sun, the first time ever Zhai tea. Within a short while, hard labor in exchange for a little results, Xiaokuang taken soon filled me, my hands and feet are numb, really, "Who would have thought a cup of tea, piece of the really hard-earned," ah.
Back to our home base, they have fire up OK, just dug up the sweet potatoes in the flames of the stroking has been issued under the seductive scent. We breeze in the mountains in the fragrant sweet potatoes to divide up. Then we started playing together, they teach me to play the local popular police catch the thief, I would teach them to play currently on tour in the most popular self-help to kill the game ......
Had gone to the noon, I had to leave this gave me was full of laughter and surprises of the hills. Back to Earth Building, Chi-kin, mom has lunch well, and carefully put my empty bottle filled with a new bubble tea. Hastily eaten, respect and get along for 20 hours to bid farewell to the friends. I brought a portable pen, whistle, white flower oil have left them, the parting at the door, the foot of the Return Journey.
The tour is a deep feeling for himself, even though only stayed less than a day, but has let me feel that they are like those of gold purity of heart, kindness and hospitality Hakka hard work, let me deep nostalgia, I want to he was definitely still the Zai Qu.
Farewell, Tulou; do, and Hakka friends.
Author: jasontan
