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2021年1月19日发(作者：tonight)
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What&How is Kaiing Diaolou
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Outstanding Diaolou Structures
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The Li Garden
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Good morning! Ladies and gentlemen:
This morning
we’ll drive 1.5hours to visit the unique “Diaolou”houses in Kaiping City. You fell puzzled when hearing the
word Diaolou, don’t you? Now let me tell you something about the city of Kaiping as well sa what and how these houses are.

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What&How is Kaiing Diaolou
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Kaiping is a small city in Guangdong Province, about 100 kilometers to the southwest of Guangzhou, with an area of 1659
square kilometers and a population of 680 thousand. It has long been known as the native land of a great many overseas
Chinese, the number totting up to or even more than its domestic population. The Chinese, you know, are a nostalgic people
having a strong feeling of wistful longing for home, so the overseas Chinese from Kaiping, no matter how long they had been
away and how far they were away from home, would come back to buy a piece of land to build their house and to get married.
Those houses built by the returned overseas Chinese during the late 19th and early 20th centuries are all watchtower-like,
with thick solid walls, small and narrow iron doors and windows, and even with embrasures on the walls and an observation
tower on the top.


So,
“
Kaiping Diaolou
”

is a proper name of the multi-storied defensive country houses of the returned overseas Chinese
in
Kaiping
City.
Built
of
stone,
brick
or
concrete,
these
buildings
display
a
fusion
of
Chinese
and
foreign
architectural
and
decorative
forms,
and
reflect
the
significant
role
these
emigrant
Kaiping
people
had
played
in
the
development
of
the
countries they resided, in South Asia, Australasia, North America and other regions of the world.
You may wonder why these returned overseas Chinese had their houses built into a structure of a watchtower. Well, the
reasons
are
clear.
First,
public
order
at
that
time
was
bad
and
banditry
was
a
real
headache
and
the
better- off
returned
overseas Chinese families naturally became targets for robbery; second, the Kaiping area is a stretch of low-lying land and
folds were a frequent occurrence. So, these solid and high-rise buildings were good both for defense against bandits and for
refuge from the floods.
Kaiping
Diaolou
is
listed
by
the
Chinese
State
Council
as
a
key
cultural
relic
protected
by
the
state.
Its
total
number
amounted to 3, 300 in the peak years and now the registered number is 1833, and twenty of the better ones are inscribed on
the
World
Heritage
List
by UNESCO.
Org
(United Nations
Educational,
Scientific
and
Cultural
Organization).
These
buildings
take
three
forms:
communal
tower
jointly
built
by.
Several
families
for
use
as
temporary
refuge, residential
tower
built by
individual rich family and used as fortified residence, and watch tower for guarding against bandits. In the 1940s during the
war of resistance against Japan, some of these towers became strongholds for people’s militia.