Yongding Tulou, also known as Tongzilou, is located in Yongding County, Longyan City, Fujian Province, on the southeast coast of China. The oldest one is Fuxinlou located in Xiazhai Village, Leihu Town. It is the earliest surviving earth building in Fujian. Built in 769 A.D., it has a history of more than 1,200 years, and is the oldest of the earth building clusters in Fujian.

There are many kinds of Yongding Tulou buildings, which are divided into two systems: square buildings and round buildings. Yongding is known as the Chinese Hakka Tulou Museum without a gate. Among the many earth buildings, the most representative ones are Wufeng Building, Dafang Building and Round Building.

Architectural Characteristics of Fujian Yongding Tulou

Fujian Tulou is built according to the mountains and has a reasonable layout. It absorbed the concept of "feng shui" of traditional Chinese architectural planning, adapted to the living and defense requirements of people *** living together, and skillfully utilized the narrow flat land in the mountainous areas and the local construction materials such as raw soil, timber and cobblestones. It is a self-contained, economical, sturdy and highly defensive high-rise building type of great beauty.

These unique residential buildings in the mountainous regions have pushed the long-established rammed earth technique to its limits. The Hakka people are an important ethnic group among the Han Chinese whose ancestors came from the Central Plains. Because of wars and disasters, the Hakka people migrated southward in large scale five times. Some of them moved to Fujian and formed the Hakka clan.