It is a black brick and white tile house, which has two entrances: the top and the bottom.
Click on the “Chen Clan People Group” above to join the Hakka Tu Wei City in Quzhang Township of the Chen Clan, which is a typical and unique building of the Hakka people.
It consists of two parts: the “old city” and the “new city”.
It is located on the edge of a village and stands on a hillside.
Former Residence of Chen Mingshu: Formerly a single story house with rammed earth walls on the top of a mountain, it consists of 14 rooms, divided into two rows, with a courtyard in the middle.
There is a courtyard in the middle, which gathers the rainwater from the southeast, northwest and four directions of tiles to sink into the courtyard.
The restored former residence of Chen Mingshu is a two-story small building full of Western flavor and antique charm.
It is called “Four Rivers Return to the Trough”, which symbolizes the absorption of the essence of the sun and the moon and the convergence of wealth from all directions.
The entire building appears sturdy and stable, exuding a strong force, just like Chen Mingshu’s poem: “There is chastity and hardness in the air that permeates the rainbow Afterword: Give roses to others, with a lingering fragrance in your hand! I hope everyone can click “Share” at the bottom left after reading, and share the article or video with your WeChat group, friends, or social circle, so that more people can see it.
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The highest part of the wall is 6 meters high, and the thickest part is about 60 centimeters, tall, thick, and sturdy.
This square earthen fortress was built by Chen Ruifu, the 15th generation ancestor of the Hakka Chen family, who moved from Fujian Province to Quzhang Township in Hepu County.
The “soil” of Tu Wei City refers to the use of soil as the building material.
According to incomplete statistics, there are over 30 Hakka besieged cities in Hepu, mainly distributed in Hakka settlements such as Gongguan, Baisha, Shankou, Zhakou, Quzhang, and Changle.
At that time, it was top secret! The “encirclement” of Tuwei City refers to the Hakka people’s good practice of surrounding and living together in a certain form, following the principle of a center.
In front of the door is a cobblestone racetrack, and next to the building is the famous Hakka soil fortress.
It is 34.3 meters long and 12.1 meters wide, and is Chen Mingshu’s ancestral house, as well as his birthplace and childhood residence.
The Tuwei City was built by combining the raw earth architectural art of the Central Plains with local conditions, using local materials and ramming, so it is said to be unique to the Hakka people.
In order to prevent foreign enemies and wild animals from invading, he led the Chen family to build it.
Therefore, the “soil” of Tu Wei City Actually, it’s not dirt.
The walls of Tu Wei City are made of yellow mud, lime, river sand, glutinous rice, and brown sugar mixed in a certain proportion and compacted with plywood.
This is the ancestral hall of the Chen family in the besieged city.
