Shell CuO is a traditional characteristic building in Quanzhou, southern Fujian. That is, a house built with clam shells (in Minnan, Cuo means house, and clam means oyster). "Shell CuO" is a great architectural wonder in southern Fujian, mainly distributed in Jipu Community, Fashi Community, Dongmei Community and Jinqi Community in Donghai Street, Fengze District, Quanzhou City, with Jipu Community being the most concentrated.

Distributed in Xiangpu Village, Quanzhou, Shi Cun and Quanzhou coastal area. Local people use shells mixed with sea mud to build houses and build a series of shells, which are unique shell-decorated ancient houses along the southeast coast of China. Its ingenious and exquisite architecture is a unique architectural form in the southeast coast and even in the mainland, which constitutes the unique natural landscape of ancient dwellings in southern Fujian.

Architectural features:

The Shell House in Liaopu Village was built in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. Its main feature is that the shell and masonry are built into walls. A large area of gray-white shell, white granite and red brick form a pattern with strong color contrast and aesthetic feeling. The blocked shell is as beautiful as a fish scale.

Liaopu Village, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province is located at the mouth of Jinjiang River. Oysters in the sea are delicious, and their shells can be used as building materials. Oysters are called "oysters" or "oysters" locally, and houses built with them are called "oyster shells" or "oyster shells". Coastal sea breeze is salty, red bricks are easy to corrode, while the shell wall of Meretrix meretrix is not easy to corrode and does not leak. As the saying goes in southern Fujian, "a thousand-year-old brick is a thousand-year-old mosquito."