However, in rural Fujian, villas seem to have become the standard of residential buildings, and its large number makes people wonder whether there are poor people like me in the world.
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Although there are also self-built villas in rural areas, in comparison, villas in Fujian can already be called luxury houses.
The rural mansion in Fujian is based on heroism and spans two or three floors. The most common is a villa with two or three floors, which only belongs to the level of a canteen. The mansion is four stories high, with no ceiling, Roman columns and towering Arc de Triomphe outside the house, which makes people think that they have strayed into the government compound.
Its architectural style is mostly modeled after the Royal College of Europe, with the characteristics of Athens College. The European red dome looks back at Florence, and the marble facade overlooks Buckingham Palace, making you feel like you are at the window of the world.
Some people choose to be more simple and luxurious, and they don't carve beams and paint buildings, but only speak by area. It looks like a city government building, maybe someone's private residence. The high-end office building that happens to pass by may be a boss's mansion.
Maybe more than one big house. Maybe a family wants to be a neighbor, building many big houses between neighbors and enclosing them with walls to form a big house group. It takes about ten minutes to walk from the gate to the room.
These luxury houses themselves have no special momentum, but as long as they step back a little, they will feel a sharp contrast with the backward infrastructure and farmland around them.
Moreover, this kind of luxury house is not uncommon, not everyone has this kind of luxury house, but in Putian, Fuqing, Quanzhou and other places, the density of this kind of luxury house is rare, and it is also rare in the country.
I found a villa company to do custom design, and found that Fujian not only has a large order volume, but also has the largest demand. No wonder some people say that China Villa looks at Fujian.
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Why are there so many villas and mansions in Fujian?
Many people think this shows that there are many people in Fujian. Although there are indeed many rich people in Fujian, this does not directly mean that there are many villas.
Ordinary people are very rich, either buying luxury houses in modern cities or living in seclusion in beautiful places. But Fujian people are rich, and many will choose to go back to their hometown to build houses.
One reason is that the cost is relatively low, and the price of a suite in a first-tier city may not be high enough. But in my hometown, I can build a big house and design it myself.
But, more importantly, Fujian people have a deep obsession with going home to build a house.
There is a saying in Minnan culture that exploring big money means building a house, and building a house means building a big house.
Home is a symbol of status. The bigger the family, the more it can reflect the prosperity of the family and the success or failure of the career. For people here, going home to build a house after making money is a sign of returning home with clothes on, sharing weal and woe. It is also the tacit understanding that grandparents abide by.
To highlight your success, it is natural to make your house more magnificent, and it is inevitable that you will have the psychology of keeping up with the joneses. Everyone wants their own building to overwhelm others. So the house is more and more luxurious, higher and bigger.
In fact, many luxury houses are vacant, because some people just regard it as a memorial and symbol, rather than a permanent home. Maybe they will only stay for a few days on holidays. For them, these luxury houses are real face-saving projects, the exterior decoration style is the most important, and pragmatism is not so important.
Therefore, we can often see some luxury houses standing like unfinished buildings, with magnificent appearance but lifeless interior.
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In Fujian, people have a tradition of going home to build buildings.
Minnan culture has the spirit of daring to fight and winning. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many Fujian people went to sea for business and traveled to Nanyang and even beyond, and some of them became wealthy businessmen in the local area and achieved great success.
But when they got rich, they all returned to China and their hometown, and built ancestral temples and buildings. In their eyes, this is the cause of returning home with clothes and worshipping ancestors.
It is conceivable that the official residences built by these people who were not short of money were extremely luxurious at that time and the scale was quite large.
The feudal hierarchy was divided into strict grades. Generally speaking, houses can't be built too luxuriously, and there are many rules and ceremonies to restrict them. Most of the houses in the Central Plains are gray, and red and yellow can't be used as a symbol of imperial power. Moreover, building structures such as bucket arches and rest hilltops are generally only applicable to senior officials' buildings.
However, in southern Fujian, Chaoshan and other places, residential buildings will intentionally imitate the palace-style architectural style, also known as the Palace Que.
Cai ancient residence in Nan 'an, Fujian is a family residence established in Qing Dynasty. 16 There are more than 400 luxury houses with a total area of16,000 square meters. The room is full of exquisite wood carvings, clay sculptures, brick carvings and stone carvings.
chua ancient dwellings
Among these places, the most striking thing is the extensive use of red bricks. Red bricks were rare in China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but they were widely used in Europe and Nanyang. Returned businessmen brought them back to their hometown as a witness of their own career, and at the same time made the whole building group present a royal red atmosphere.
During the Guangxu period, the former residence of Lulin, Jialin Road, an overseas Chinese architect in Singapore, used a lot of red bricks, designed beams and columns, combined western-style reinforced concrete with Chinese wood structure, adopted a traditional roof leaning against the mountain, and laid imported tiles on the ground. The whole building is magnificent and combines Chinese and western architectural styles.
After returning to China, some overseas Chinese abandoned the quadrangle layout of traditional houses and built a single-family villa with a combination of Chinese and western styles, which was locally called Fanzilou.
There are many Fanzilou in Fujian. The older generation of overseas Chinese would rather ship wooden bricks from overseas to China than build buildings in their hometown.
In the early years of the Republic of China, the genealogy of Philippine businessman Suo ranged from 14 to 19, which were named as country, nation, country, glory, ancestor and Germany respectively. It can be seen that he was deeply influenced by Guangzong's thought. After his successful career, he returned to his hometown of yongningzhen, shishi city, Fujian Province, and built a pavilion for the use of the Yang family of six. Room 170, which can accommodate more than 200 young people and more than 0/00 servants.
Painted sculptures, marble railings and exotic mansions built on the land of China represent the homesickness of their owners and their bitterness and bitterness when they struggled overseas.
Liujiating
After returning to China, many overseas Chinese spared no effort to use their financial resources and influence to help build their hometown. At that time, Cai Lao, the owner of Cai's ancient dwellings, went to Zhejiang, Anhui and other places for disaster relief. Because of the huge amount of donations, he was also named second minister by the emperor.
Li Gongzang built Li Mansion in Guanshan. After he returned to his hometown, he invested heavily in building the first railway in Fujian, Zhang Xia Railway, and donated dozens of primary and secondary schools in Quanxia.
Guanshan Lishi former residence
Today's European-style luxury houses in rural Fujian can be said to be modern representatives of Fanzilou. Fujian people who grew up watching these luxurious Fanzi buildings all want to own their own foreign buildings after success. This mansion is not only for showing financial resources and status, but also for remembering hometown and paying homage to ancestors.
China people have special feelings for their motherland and roots. As long as the roots are still there, their hearts can be steadfast. No matter how far you wander, no matter how successful your career is, your yearning for home will always make you want to go back to the place where you were born and see it again, even if you have to return to your hometown after death.
This is probably the meaning of the so-called falling leaves and Fengcheng sword.