China's strange building Yu Changlou, crooked west seven hundred years

Personality is the attraction, southwest Fujian still exists more than 38,000 tulou, the vast majority of them are obscure, hidden in the countryside people do not know. Yu Chang House is not in the famous earth building group, and does not belong to the world cultural heritage, and even a national key cultural relics protection units are not mixed, but it does not affect the building visitors like crucian carp, fame outside, become tens of thousands of earth buildings in Fujian famous one, this is why? Yu Chang House is a typical building strong, this mountain village adobe eastward and westward actually has stood for seven hundred years, Yu Chang House is located in Fujian Nanjing County, Shuyang Town, Xiasaka Village, built in the middle of the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1308-1338 years), is one of the world's oldest surviving high-rise apartment building. The legendary story describes why Yu Chang House is skewed from east to west. Yu Chang House was built in the middle of the Yuan Dynasty for the five surnames of Liu, Luo, Zhang, Tang and Fan, with a height of five floors and 54 rooms on each floor, and the whole building was divided into five major units, each with one staircase. As a result of the five surnames together, the master carpenter and the master plasterer will be five surnames take turns to provide meals, in a cold night, just after a round of meals for the family thought it was all right, went to bed early, and the next then provide meals for the family thought it was a matter of tomorrow morning, also went to bed early, the two did not hand over well, the night overtime carpenter master hunger and cold, thought the master will send a steaming midnight snack, who knew Nothing, the master carpenter was angry, a night to make the wedge are not in line with the norms, just installed on it did not see anything, but soon after the completion of the corridor wooden columns from the second floor began to tilt to the left and right, resulting in the whole building looks crooked. Legend to legend, now we have been unable to explore the Yu Chang House of the east is skewed intentionally or unintentionally, in any case, due to the beams and columns pull each other, the overall force of the building body is not damaged, looks skewed, shaky, but the building has withstood the test of more than 700 years of wind and rain and earthquakes, is still the same, there is no danger, leaning but does not fall, become a miracle in the history of architecture.



There are also so many Tulou villages, despite being located on the famous tourist route from Tashia Village to Tianluokeng Tulou Group, but few tourists stop for them, and these villages grow old in silence. Yu Chang Lou is a very ordinary appearance of a round earthen building, moderate, by the mountain and water, but into the building is a big story, this is not a perfect earthen building, but a full seven hundred years standing, and in the fourteenth century built a seven-story (later changed to five-story) high building, no doubt equivalent to now build a skyscraper, but such a masterpiece is unknown craftsmen and ordinary villagers, in fact, regardless of this building In fact, no matter why this building is crooked, the history of seven hundred years has fully proved the solidity of this earth building. Today, seven hundred years later, technology has developed rapidly and we can already build houses of various shapes with various high-tech materials, but two materials are missing - conscience and patience.