A house with a wall around its family
At Yan Yi Wei in Longnan, rooms, galleries and defensive openings share a tall square enclosure; Guanxi New Enclosed House offers another local plan.
Hakka Weiwu
The Hakka built houses for defence and for a large extended family, and the same building type carries a different name in every province: a tulou in Fujian, a tuweizi or earthen enclosure in Jiangxi, a four-cornered tower in northern Guangdong, a weilongwu in eastern Guangdong, and a shime in Shenzhen and Hong Kong. In Ganzhou's southern counties the forms are square enclosures with one gate, a courtyard inside, and a range of rooms around it.
Hakka Weiwu
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The tall rectangular enclosure of Yanyi Wei above tiled roofs in Longnan, southern Jiangxi. Photograph from 2017.Jim X / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Proportionally resized and converted to WebP; no cropping or alteration of the scene.