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strollingfish Says: Now is the "king of earth buidlings". The building has a history of 300 years consisting of 4 storeys with 4 circles and altogether 400 rooms. Admission costs RMB30.
strollingfish Says: It's in Yongding Earth Building Folk Culture Village. Admission to the village costs RMB40. though the building's history is not long it's called as Earth Building Prince. the construction is based on Eight-diagram pattern
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Zhenfu Building-between the inner and outer circle
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strollingfish Says: This building is special because it's only for one family living in. The current hostess told us the original owner,her father in law moved out from his own big family and built up the building for himself and his four wives. He did tobacco business. at that time there's an...
strollingfish Says: This building was constructed based on the Eight Diagrams pattern,integrated with the surrounding landscape. A place propitious for giving birth to great men and enjoying the title of "Scholarly Family".
strollingfish Says: It's said the building body was shaken split by earthquake once and got recovered mystically afterwards. therefore it's called an "Anti-seismic huge castle".
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cheekychic Says: Free tea tasting at the tea house of the plantation. Oo Long tea is a famous produce of LongYan
cheekychic Says: Located up on the hills, the private-owned tea plantation cum holiday chalet is open to the public. The chalets are rented out at Rmb400 a night.
strollingfish Says: As it's in mountain area the better choice for travelling between earth buildings is to take motocycle. What's more is that the drivers are locals they can be your guides. They know what you are interested in and will provide good introduction and recommendation. Do remember...
cheekychic Says: The newly constructed LongYan Railway Station
cheekychic Says: Getting to Longyan by road is easier, by car or bus. No.319 and No.205 national highways run through the whole West Fujian.
strollingfish Says: We saw these flowers in many places. Both the red calyx and inner fruit are useful. The former can be a color component to lipstick and the latter used to make chinese medicine.
cheekychic Says: Chinese have always been known to be gracious hosts, they always make sure their guests are well taken care of and also WELL FED! My relatives would feed me 5-6 meals a day - rice, noodles, soups, etc.. non stop.. lol. What caught me by surprise is when we went for course...
cheekychic Says: The Forest Park is worth a visit, a short hike up the trail will lead you the highest peak of cooling waterfalls. Locals would go to the park for picnic and bbq.
o00o Says: view of the tolou roof top
cheekychic Says: Longyan in Western Fujian stretches 19,000 square kilometers, accounting for 15.7 percent of Fujian's total area, and has a population of 2.69 million, among which the Hans is the main nationality and other minority nationalities. Hakka Dialect and South Fujian Dialect are...
cheekychic Says: LongYan has the highest number of motorcycles per capita than any other city in China. Driving a car can be scary with so many motorcycles on the road.
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They built the earth complexes to guard against invasion from local bandits and to protect their children from the influence of local communities
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Q: Hi, I have never been to China except Tibet. I want to come to Longyan to meet a friend and his family. What's the best way...
A: Longyan in Fujian province, yes? Neither Beijing nor Chengdu is close to Longyan, assuming we're talking about the right one. There're no direct trains from Chengdu....
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