Kaiping City towers village self-reliance

Village self-towers Tong Town is located in Kaiping City, is one of the world's cultural heritage.

The beautiful natural landscape of the village, reservoirs, Hawthorn, rice paddies, grasslands

scattered During this period, with a large number of towers, ranking Cottage, beautiful, the

formation of a pastoral poetry Yangchun King as tobacco farming

Ink, unique style of the Lingnan style castle in rural villages.
15 self-help village of various styles, shapes beautifully rich the towers, the towers Kaiping

outstanding representatives of boom. Village self-towers built in the 20th century, more than two or

three generations, is the hometown of overseas Chinese in order to protect life and property safety

of their loved ones be built.
Towers will be self-reliant village of traditional Chinese architectural culture with the West Village

building culture together skillfully, a rare manifestation of the modern Chinese and Western cultures

in China, a wide range of rural exchanges, and become a memorial monument of Chinese culture

and unique landscape of the world architecture. End of the building preserved

The whole furniture, living facilities, production equipment and daily necessities, rich and interesting,

was the Chinese culture and life of the witness.
Tong Town strong part of the village sub-village, there are 63 households, 175 villagers, 248 were

Chinese. Remittances is the main source of livelihood of the villagers. After the Opium War, the

people living in dire straits, together with the Western countries to China to recruit workers, self-help

groups of villagers to start living.

Age 20 between the twentieth century, due to the rampant banditry, frequent floods and other

reasons, the Chinese would have built a home to 15 to observe the towers. These towers are steel

doors, bars, around the bullet hole, equipped with firearms, Tongluo, searchlights, storing a large

amount of food, once a thief invasion

The villagers would hide in the building with the counter, the thief afford to buy a home, failed. Wall

structure of reinforced concrete as well as the green concrete package. In addition to green building

materials are locally produced, the iron bars, iron, cement, etc. are imported from abroad. Towers of

the upper end

There are four cantilevered structure, cantilevered corners, cantilevered front, behind the cantilever.
Architectural style, many architectural features with a foreign, a portico-style, platform-style,

castle-style, there are mixed. These towers. Some are under the building back from a foreign-built

drawings.
Self-help group in the village of towers in June 2001 by the State Council published the National

key units to be protected. July 2005 was named "the most beautiful places in Guangdong, the most

beautiful residential areas"; in November 2005 as a "national history and culture of the village"; in

April 2006 won the "most foreigners in China

50 places to go "Gold; June 28, 2007 by section 31 included in the General Assembly session of the

World Heritage" World Heritage List, "by Kaiping City People's Government is the maintenance

training, the more she reflected the integrity, authenticity and coordination , so as to attract the face

of her unique visual impact at home and abroad to come to Visitors.