Chengqilou "the King of tulou" (Gaobei village)
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Chengqilou 承啟樓 nicknamed "the king of tulou", of Gaobei Tulou cluster 高北土樓群 at Gaotou village of Yongding County was built in 1709. Inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Site 1113-003 in 2008. It is massive rotunda tulou with four concentric rings surrounding an ancestral hall at the center, the outer ring is 62.6 metres in diameter and four storeys tall, 288 rooms, with 72 rooms on each level, circular corridor on 2nd to 4th floor, with four sets of staircases at cardinal points connecting ground to top floors. A big roof extending out ward covers the main ring. The ground floor rooms are kitchens for family branches, the second level rooms are grain storage rooms, and the 3rd and 4th floor rooms are living quarters and bedrooms. The second ring of 80 rooms is two storeys high, with 40 rooms on each level, the third ring served as community library, one storey with 32 rooms; there are 370 rooms in all. The 4th ring is a circular covered corridor surrounding the ancestral hall. If a person stayed for one night in each room, it would take him more than a year to go through all the rooms.[5] The ancestral hall is at the centre. Chengqilou has two main gates and two side gates. 15th generation Jiang clan with 57 families and 300 people live here. At its heyday, there were more than 80 family branches lived in Chengqilou.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 24°39'48"N 117°0'15"E
- Hongkeng Village 3.5 km
- Guzhu village tulou cluster 7.1 km
- Songyuan 松源镇 64 km
- Xinglinwan Hotel 107 km
- CBD Xiamen 113 km
- Core Power (Fujian) New Energy Automobile Co. 144 km
- Chongyang 144 km
- Sinotruk Fujian Haixi Automobile Co. 147 km
- Old city of Changting 147 km
- Old town 210 km
- Nanxi Valley tulou cluster 8.2 km
- Jengrui Tunnel 16 km
- Xiayang 19 km
- Baituyan Tunnel 29 km
- Fujian New Longma Auto Co. 35 km
- Jiufeng tunnel 38 km
- Dalongtoushan tunnel 38 km
- Nanjing County 40 km
- Longyan City 49 km
- Jingyuankou tunnel 54 km