| Anybody know Kaiping Diaolou ? | |
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| Sep 3, 2004 14:27 |   |
 | Anybody know Kaiping Diaolou ? this website is interesting. http://www.kaiping-diaolou.com/ Your opinion is welcome!  |
| Sep 3, 2004 16:15 | #1 |
| It is the first time to hear of the Diaolou! The castle tower (if I call it correctly) is soooo great! Especially when I first saw several standing in the green field, I thought it should be some places of European country (of course from the pics of the website that LESAIGNEUR recommended)! But the only pity is that website hasn't the English version~~ |
| Sep 3, 2004 16:19 | #2 |
| by the way, how did you find that website? Can you read Chinese characters? @_@ |
| Sep 3, 2004 17:00 | #3 |
| Yeah! Also is a Watchtower. I hope visit this city at the end of september. I read just some characters. ;(  |
| Sep 3, 2004 17:10 | #4 |
| from what the words show, I just know that this Diaolou has two main functions: one is to prevent waterlogging, and other is to avoid the brigandage. And now it became a sepcial sightseeing of Kaiping. |
| Sep 3, 2004 18:25 | #5 |
| This building is Ruishi Diaolou,located behind Jinjiangli Village. Constructed in 1921 at the peak of the style’s popularity. It has nine floors and is the highest diaolou at Kaiping. In 2001 the State Council declared the Kaiping Diaolou a Protected Cultural Relic. Presently the local government is applying them for the U.N. World Culture Heritage.  |
| Sep 23, 2004 10:39 | #6 |
| Daisy is better to use this topic now! Daisy write : Have you ever been to other places during these days? Yes! sur! i visit some distric during my trip. i see several building in Kaiping city, in tongku town, zili village and Chikan city (Photos later)  |
| Sep 23, 2004 10:44 | #7 |
| I got this thread! How long have you been in Kaiping? Does that mean that the Castle Tower group is located in zili village and Chikan city? |
| Sep 23, 2004 11:19 | #8 |
| i stay only 5 days in kaiping aera. in fact, you've 553 building in this aera. zili village offers 15 Diaolou, so, note Zili village is one of the 5 property sites for the inscription of Kaiping Diaolou on the World Cultural Heritage list. the village is very beautiful, and with the natural environment! The Lotus ponds creat a unique scene. I love it too mutch!  |
| Sep 27, 2004 10:46 | #9 |
| I love the pics you shot in Kaiping! I really hope that I can have a chance go there, even live there!! How many types does the Diao Lou have? |
| Sep 27, 2004 11:30 | #10 |
| Kaip?g is located in southwest of Guangzhou 136km and 164km from the Macau border you have various architectures, which are partly Portuguese Gothic. Some squat brick fortresses dating back to the 17th century were intended as places of refuge for whole villages. Simple concrete towers were merely lookout points intended to provide warning of approaching bandits, but by the 1920s these had evolved into massive fortified residences up to nine stories high, sprouting turrets and loopholes, balconies and cupolas, borrowed from half-understood European styles encountered everywhere from Macau to Manila.  |
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