UNESCO World Heritage Site • Yongding Fujian Tulou (Hakka Houses)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2018
- We recently had the chance to see the beautiful Hakka houses in the province of Fujian in China.
A UNESCO World Heritage site, these unique Chinese residential buildings built by Hakka people back between the 12th and 20th centuries.
Built in either round or square shapes (aka roundhouses), these clustered walled villages could house up to 80 families and were built to enable stronger defence purposes.
Flying into Xiamen, the journey to the Fujian (Yongding) took 3 hours each way by car (that was arranged by the hotel/inn we were staying at).
Not only have these buildings held up incredibly well, but the architecture was simply remarkable and the food there was yummy too! Definitely worth visiting and really nice to be in such a serene environment too!
Let me know if you’ve had the chance to visit or what you thought of this video!
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So, 😮i am Kakka, born and raised in the uk. My father came here in the very early 1960s and married my mum who camee from HK in the late 1950s. Just learning about Hakka now at my age, soon to be 60.
thats wonderful to hear, it was a very special place to visit and experience indeed!
I love Tulou's because it is the only defensive architecture built by the people, for the people- castles were built for lords and rulers, Tolou were built by families for families. I find that fascinating!
yeah totally agree with you Grace! I loved how every floor had a different purpose (e.g ground floor - kitchen etc), definitely a very thoughtful design process
New Mexico has a bunch of homes that are built to defend themselves as well
NO
In Kaiping are also what you call peoples-castles
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I love watching your videos . Thankyou.
I'm hakka people born in Indonesia, looking at this whole video making me feel like home.. 有归属感，我也感动，不知道怎么了，好像找到了自己的身份。 Okay... Fujian I'm coming 🤭
thanks for watching! It's a beautiful area to visit, the architecture is really like no other. definitely go visit if you have the chance!
Keren bro... Serasa pulang kampung
I’m also a Hakka-Indonesian!!
Nice video on Hakka houses! Mauritian Hakka here! :)
hahah thank you!! oh wow that's so awesome! Nice to be connected with Mauritian's haha. Hakka people are all across the world!
Very interesting, fascinating! Can't think of anything like this.A building designed with self defense in mind can actually become a tourist attraction! The original design of toulou building was square shape called Wei Loong Wu literally means dragon -containing-house ! Then evolved into round ones in fujian province .
oh wow I didn't know that! I wonder why they call it dragon containing house? Or why they eventually changed from square shape to round?
the lady actually was really great in explaining the concepts behind how all the buildings were built - and the fact they incorporate a lot of "nature" elements, like the earth, sky etc.
They still use chamber pots! I guess they can't build modern plumbing without risking damage to the structures or affecting the historical integrity. I'm Jamaican Hakka and would love to visit these some day.
Yeah definitely! I imagine it'd be quite a task to put plumbing in... had no idea what the pots were originally for but definitely makes sense! Defs worth a trip, the whole environment is so lovely and serene, it really is like stepping into another world.
I love your video. Thanks for posting.
thanks for watching! glad to hear you enjoyed 😁
Thank you for sharing this video. It really interests me because my ancestors came from Fujian and migrated to Malolos (Li-Han in Chinese) in Bulacan, Philippines sometime in the late 17th or early 18th century.
If I am not mistaken, I belong to the 8th generation of my ancestor from Fujian.
No worries and glad you enjoyed it :) defs worth a visit, it's really beautiful
Hakka from Guangdong...meizhou
I enjoyed your video. It almost felt like I was there. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Dominic haha that was my goal! Appreciate your comment and glad you felt like you were there!
Yes indeed my grandma and grandpa are from China from méixìan village
Hakka yin
We are shiang TO from my grand pa and shiang NG from my grandma
We have visited the Guandong village
But my grandma and grandpa was poor in the year 1945 she is 96 years lives in Canada now she went abroad to get better life 😃
Wow that's awesome! Great to hear you and your family are doing well now :)
Good to know we can stay there
Cool thanks for showing my peoples people..and houses and lifestyles..
are you from this area? what a special and unique home you have!
@@wanderingwithyanvlogs my ancestors were from there..but mainly in the Guangdong regions.. I still have relatives living there staying to look after the lands my grandfather owns..
Very infomative. Best vlog on tulou I ve seen, so far. Good job , Yan.
thank you for your kind words and thanks for watching!
Wow, how incredibly beautiful.
sure is! the place and buildings are so unique, really serene environment too
So fascinating beautiful way of life.
I just watched "Big Fish & Begonia", and I can now see which area of China inspired the movie. The clustered homes in the movie are like a carbon copy from the Hakka.
Yeah it's so surreal being there, it's so untouched from modern urbanization and you enter a whole new world!
My mom family is hakka, greetings from Malaysia 🙂🇲🇾
that's awesome! haha yeah I think a lot of Malaysian's have hakka roots - lots of good hakka restaurants in Malaysia!
@@wanderingwithyanvlogs yup 👍
Mine too! From Sabah
Flapjack Kalonchoe haha that's awesome!!
How fascinating, thank you for this video. I do feel so bad for those bunnies.
I love animals.
thanks for watching! hope you enjoyed
YongDing people is different with hakka people, I am Yong Ding and the 21th generation from my ancestor and i'm staying in Indonesia. Each tulou represents the class of group.
Oh wow didn't know that! Thanks for sharing that info
在香港認識兩個永定人都是客家人
TQ GL
Nice
看到南靖土樓感觸很深~ 清代康熙年間,不少反清南靖氏族隨鄭軍渡海屯兵諸羅西堡南靖庄(日治改名嘉義西堡,今台灣雲林地區).
Nice video. I enjoyed it.
thanks for your kind comments! thanks for watching!
Gr8 vid!
thank you for watching!
Very informative video !
Thanks Alikou! Glad to hear you enjoyed it :)
I saw this round house model in Mulan movie 😊😊😊
haha that's awesome! thanks for watching! it's definitely a very cool place to check out and very unique.
So nice,i hope i can take didi taxi from Zhangzhou to this place.
I didn't go from Zhangzhou so I can't give you tips of that but good luck!
I never saw houses like this but I had a dream with such a house, after that I researched in internet and found this houses. I don't know what that mean, it's never happened to me before in my whole life. This is so strange for me.
your past life is Hakka
magic
you may find something if you go there in person one day!Remember to let me know if you do,thanks
@@stanleychu9826 I wish I could visit someday. I think some people don't believe me I dreamed such a houses before I saw it for real, it's soo surreal. Even for me is strange .
Where are you from?
@@sabaidee5587 just from that area.and where are you from?
Thank you for the beautiful video. Well done. 😊👍🏻
Thank you for watching :)
So many dried and preserved vegetables...is the climate unsuitable for growing vegetables for many months of the year?
Hmm, the climate is not too bad they do have hot and cold weather. I think making preserved vegetables is more to do with using it for cooking and adding different variants of flavours. But in winter definitely you're right, it could be harder to grow crops then because it can get quite cold
@@wanderingwithyanvlogs I guess it's no different to living here by the Spanish Pyrenees, but we have a freezer and I can get out the frozen peas whenever I want! If I didn't have a freezer, I would do more preserving. I love these round communities, it makes me feel very nostalgic when I see them, maybe I lived in one in a past life!
Do Hakka people have their own dialect? Or they speak in Chinese?
From my understanding, yes they do - Hakka people have their own dialect, just like people from Fujian will speak hokkien etc. Teochew people will have their own dialect too
So much yummy for the tummy. I hope one day to see but not this year. :(
Maybe one day! Definitely worth visiting
This building, it is drawn in the cartoon movie, Bigfish and Begonia.
Before i watch ur video I do not know that this building from the hakka culture,
Interesting.
Is the hakka call Ahu for grandmother and Akkung /Ayee for grandfather ??
haha to be honest I didn't know either! but these sites were highly recommended by a friend and it ended up being such a wonderful experience. it was really fun staying there too in very traditional houses and the food was amaaaazing!
so grandmother is ah po (阿婆) and you're correct for grandfather! ah gong or ah ye 阿公/阿爺 - similar to cantonese
i haven't heard of those cartoon movies - defs will check it out!
Hello there is it possible to travel there by yourselves without going with tour group. If yes kindly guide me to know how to do that
We didn't go with a tour group but it'd be recommended that you hire a private driver.
@@wanderingwithyanvlogs thank you so much
@@wanderingwithyanvlogs thank you for your reply to me. I went there last year in June 2019 and did it on my own. I stayed at Tsingpu Tuluo Retreat and they arranged everything for me. It was so easy. Enjoyed it so much.
@@sandraho3203 aw that's great to hear! how long did you go for? we only went for 3 days so probably should have stayed longer, but yeah it's like a mini world over there :)
@@wanderingwithyanvlogs I went quite long 6 days 5 nights, so I practically visit most of the Tuluos and was so enchanted by the architecture, the culture though a bit touristy at some tuluos. There were some not well visited it was so good, you can walk slowly and able to admire at our own pace and took lovely photos. Thanks again for your reply and video that gave me rough ideas to how to get there
Bagus
This is in the movie Mulan
Ah I had no idea! thanks for watching!
It seems like some time travel, so fascinating
I know! So insanely beautiful, it's like you step into another world, and you're spot on! It's like stepping back into another time but also so fascinating that people still live in them - and it's pretty cool!
I'm curious about how their Hakka sound like, cause they're the original Hakka 🤔
haha good question! I think you can hear bits and pieces of it at random parts of the video, like around the 1:50 mark... she mainly talked to us in Mandarin but yeah sometimes in the background you can hear a bit of it
Amazing video how much it cost you sleep there’s? Hello from miami
Fharag Brand I'm from Miami too, and I also Hakka but born in Indonesia...Hakka foods is the best Chinese food in China even in America Hakka Restaurant always serve good food !
Apologies for the late reply! It wasn't too expensive from what I remember, I'd define it as a "simple inn" that has been catered to accommodate foreign tourists too, so definitely quite priced reasonably for foreigners.
@@sandratirtoadmodjo5354 Yeah agreed! I'm not sure there's a lot of hakka food in my area but definitely do enjoy it!
Awesome
thanks for watching!
@@wanderingwithyanvlogs I would love to build homes based on this model one day.
Been doing a lot of reading on ancient China and the Yue people. So interesting!
@@swimmingmantis22 wow that's amazing! are you in architecture / construction or design areas?
@@wanderingwithyanvlogs no, I’m a firefighter with an appreciation for Chinese culture. I think that the construction has something to it that many nations can learn from. For example in really crowded areas this model would work, with good infrastructure it would be hard to lose. I wish visit and see for myself.
Remind me of big fish anime
So which is my ancestors live in ??
haha not too sure Michael!
MeiZhou is my grandfather home
come and visit it someday!
nice! is Mei Zhou near this area?
The Text too Fast, make slower a bit, in order to read fully. Tq
thanks for your feedback! this was one of my first few videos I made so definitely have improved since then :)
i find it a little odd how not a word was spoken in Hakka throughout the whole vid.
thanks for watching! i don't speak hakka so I wouldn't be able to understand & translate what was being spoken :)
People living there don't speak Hakka dialogue, only speak Zhangzhou dialogue ( South Min).
@@davidwong3197 oh wow! I didn't know this :)
philip chung - in general the area was quite touristy as well, so I think it was just easier for them to communicate in mandarin to be able to talk / show people around
I though Hakka people live in GUANG DONG province.After I saw your video ,I ve just knew that they are also in Fujian province. is their native language the same as Hakka people in Guang Dong province??
I'm not too familiar with where they are from to be honest! I believe those in Guangdong province mainly speak cantonese, which is different to hakka, hokkien or teochew etc.
Hakka people are basically everywehere due to their nomadic lifestyle. Basically, they migrated south from the north due to various reasons throughout Chinese history. Areas in GuangDong and Fujian seems to have the largest clusters of settlements.
The musical background is 1. too loud, voices cannot be heard. 2. unnecessary as the video is so good. It's too bad I wanted to much to watch and hear, but the music is a distraction. Cool video. Thanks.
Thanks for your feedback! I was very new to editing back then so admittedly was more amateur back then. Continuously learning but thanks for stopping by my channel 😁
Love Tulou. Wonder why the ever paranoid US mistook it for missile silos.
Haha thanks for watching! The tulou are all so very special aren't they!
why UNESCO heritage
Good question Ben! I'm just quoting WIkipedia here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujian_tulou
"A total of 46 Fujian tulou sites were inscribed in 2008 by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, as "exceptional examples of a building tradition and function exemplifying a particular type of communal living and defensive organization [in a] harmonious relationship with their environment"."
I suggest you tone down the background music. It’s too loud relative to your narrative voice. The choice of music is also annoying.
Nice
thanks for watching!
@@wanderingwithyanvlogs your welcome