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Staying in a traditional earthen building with modern facilities, it's comfortable, pleasant, and elegant. The butler provides attentive one-on-one service, always ready to assist. It's a rural tourism experience that meets modern five-star service standards. I would definitely recommend it to friends!

Staying in a traditional earthen building with modern facilities, it&#39;s comfortable, pleasant, and elegant. The butler provides attentive one-on-one service, always ready to assist. It&#39;s a rural tourism experience that meets modern five-star service standards. I would definitely recommend it to friends!

Nanjing Tulou, a World Cultural Heritage site and a gem of traditional Chinese architecture, comprises over 1,300 buildings.

Architecturally, Nanjing Tulou are unique in shape, adhering to the &quot;round sky and square earth&quot; concept, and come in various forms including round, square, and mansion-style. They ingeniously utilize the narrow, flat terrain in the mountains, perfectly combining traditional rammed earth construction techniques with the mortise-and-tenon method of building. For example, the Hegui Building, built on marshland, remains sturdy and stable after over 200 years.

Defensively, Tulou are veritable fortresses. Their thick outer walls, lack of outward-facing windows on the first floor, and the presence of firing ports and watchtowers, along with sturdy gates equipped with fireproofing devices, effectively repelled external attacks.

Culturally, Tulou served as ancestral homes, reflecting a strong sense of family and unity. Inside, ancestral halls and schools were often found, with couplets reflecting values ​​such as diligence in farming and scholarship, loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness, highlighting the tradition of valuing education. At the same time, the Tulou also carries the local folk culture, and residents still live in them, continuing the centuries-old atmosphere of life.

The scenery is beautiful. If you&#39;re not in a rush, it&#39;s very pleasant to walk around or sit for a while. Sitting under the shade of a tree, having tea, and enjoying the breeze is quite nice. The service is a bit too enthusiastic; it&#39;s not necessary. It&#39;s fine to just stroll around on your own. It&#39;s very commercialized, but quite convenient&mdash;you can buy almost anything. There&#39;s nothing particularly fun, except for taking photos.

Nanjing Tulou Line A mainly includes three scenic spots: Tianluokeng Tulou Group, Yuchang Building, and Tasha Village. The following is a detailed introduction:
1 Tianluokeng Tulou Group: It is the most magical, magnificent, and shocking representative of the &quot;Tulou Kingdom&quot;. It consists of 1 square building (Buyun Building), 3 round buildings (Hechang Building, Zhenchang Building, Ruiyun Building) and 1 elliptical building (Wenchang Building). Looking down from a high place, the Tulou is like a blooming plum blossom embellishing the earth, like &quot;four dishes and one soup&quot;; looking up at the foot of the mountain, it looks like the Potala Palace standing majestically on the mountainside, giving people a strong viewing impact.  
2 Yuchang Building: The biggest feature is that the pillars are tilted to the east and west, with a maximum inclination of 15&deg;, which looks shaky, but it has withstood the test of 700 years of erosion and countless earthquakes. It is still the same, safe and sound, and has become a living specimen of ancient residential architecture. In addition, the building in the building is also a major attraction. There is a single-story ancestral hall in the middle of the large patio, with three doors: the gate of happiness, the gate of life and the gate of death.  
3 Taxia Village: a national 5A-level tourist attraction, one of the first batch of China&#39;s best landscape villages, and a provincial historical and cultural village. It is known as the &quot;water village in the mountains and Zhouzhuang in southern Fujian&quot;. The village has winding streams, swaying bamboo shadows, and curling smoke. The apron building, the hanging corner building, the Deyuan Hall, the stone dragon flagpole and other buildings are dotted among them, and the scenery is picturesque.
4 In spring, the cherry blossoms in Ziyun Mountain are in full bloom, which is very beautiful!

You must go and see it.

Feel the unique Hakka culture and truly touch another living space.
This is a &quot;paradise&quot; in the mountains and streams that the Hakka ancestors have been looking for for their descendants after years of migration.
Tickets are 90, and children are 45. It is within the affordable range, after all, it has its uniqueness. This world cultural heritage deserves it.

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