Open hour
8: 00 17: 30
Ticket
15 yuan
Traffic
Quanzhou seated 9 bus No., back and forth, fare is 4.5 yuan in the urban area.
Introduce
The ancient local-style dwelling houses as the key historical relic in China, but is rarely known by the people, less visitors visit, visit the good place to recall antiquity. Introduce: The intersection of Cai and ancient the intersection of local-style dwelling houses and by QiChang and their the intersection of son and reputable ( 1862) when being clear to manage together Cai Cai buildings To declare the interconnected system ( 1911) in three years Construction. Altogether 16 of comparatively intact large house in existence, arrange parallelly and distribute over about 3 in an orderly manner commonly and incline sequentially (more than 40 mu) Rectangle more than 200 meters long in massif,there are coherent and more than 100 meter wide on north and south, cover an area of by 15300 square meters.
Mostly the fighting structure, the hard mountain or roll canopy roof is worn in the building. Pave stone Cheng more than 10 meters wide between the front and back seats, there is a fire-proof passway two meters wide between the gables. The single building mostly that three is entered or enter five rooms of overall arrangements two times, the axis fetches 5 degrees of south by west, summer dry in the sun entering it in the room in the south, the north wind is blocked by the back wall in winter, as the best orientation of the regional local-style dwelling houses of the south of Fujian Province.
Cai s ancient buildings of local-style dwelling houses, of ridge are stuck up high, carved beams and painted rafter, the relief of wall bricks and stones in front of the door, the three-dimensional effect is strong, the shuttleless loom of the window engraves flowers and carves birds, ornamental and ingenious and magnificent, wall wall calligraphy and painting of drawing room is interspersed on the door, have special feelings, the seal character is subordinate to the conduct model, each have a sophisticated appeal, leave more distinguished personages calligraphy and painting at that time.
The wood carving, clay sculpture, tile carving and stone carving that are seen everywhere, the craft is exquisite, the majority adopts, tactics of floating, it is flat to carve etc. completely. Chiselling and carving the content richly and colorfully, there are birds and beasts, birds and flowers, water flea, mountains and rivers personage, the pattern is simple and unsophisticated, and the last book enclosed and is built of northeast corner is high, dress and make up in the pavilion, it is small building of two storeys, lean upon a balustrade and look far into the distance, make people produce the faint ancient feeling of itself.
Ancient local-style dwelling houses exquisite carve, not merely embody a concentrated expression of ripe sculpture art in the south of Fujian Province, and reflected that receives the influence of Hinduism, Islam, culture of Nan Yang and western building art, praised as the Grand View Garden of the south of Fujian Province building. The ancient local-style dwelling houses are with their mighty scale, overall arrangement, exquisite carve, abundant intension in neat formation at the same time, thus is praised as a building museum in the south of Fujian Province of genuine Qing Dynasty.
