This is the parking lot in Yongding Tulou, Fujian. We told Sister Lin that we wanted to stay in Tulou for one night, but we didn't come to make nucleic acid. Sister Lin didn't say anything, so she stayed at her house. She was responsible for taking us in.
Sister Lin, with a megaphone around her neck and a map in her hand, is an interpreter of Tulou and a resident of Chengqilou. Her father-in-law was the first commentator of Tulou, her brother-in-law sold tea and cigarettes in Tulou, and her nephew opened a restaurant next to Tulou. ...
When we entered the ancestral hall of the Overseas Chinese Building, our eyes had just adapted to the light. An old man in a Tang suit greeted us. He stretched out his arm and made a gesture of "please". We are embarrassed, so why are you so polite?
The ancestral hall is covered with old photos, dedicated to Guanyin, and has an incense burner.
The old man lit two incense sticks and handed them to us as a sign for us to burn incense. A little surprised and embarrassed, it's hard to refuse ... the incense is on, and the old man made another gesture. Oh, there is a merit box in the middle of the incense table, with a payment code in front ... After the investment, the old man retired.
I read an article about tulou. The author said that she lived in a room on the third floor of Chengqi Building. She heard the rain in the morning, but it was sunny outside the window. It turns out that almost all residents get up at this time to go to the toilet. The toilet in Tulou is a bucket at home, with poor sound insulation on the walls and sound amplification in the atrium, so it sounds like rain.
The author wrote about the situation before 2006. At that time, the tulou was not listed as a world cultural heritage, dilapidated and old, and residents did not start businesses. Now, the kitchen and living room on the ground floor have become small shops.
Sister Lin took us around three tulou. She said that the earth building is made of raw civil engineering, not cultivated soil. Tulou has a defensive function, and there are no windows on the first and second floors. If robbers come, residents will close the door, and there are chickens, ducks and food in it, enough to eat for a month or two. There are all kinds of electrical appliances in the earth building, but there is no need for air conditioning. She also said that there must be a sky on the well, and the well water is alive, otherwise it will give birth to insects and become stagnant water.
We live in a room on the fourth floor of Chengqi Building. The room is small. Pushing open the wooden door, there are two beds and a cabinet. Sister Lin said that this used to be my father-in-law's wedding room, and it was also her wedding room. My father-in-law gave birth to four sons and she gave birth to two sons-which reminds me of what she emphasized in her explanation. How many doctors are there in this building and how many officials are there in that building? It seems that it is not enough not to say so, and it is not worthy of the title of world heritage. Now this small room is unambiguous. At least the children are prosperous, and the local people care about their reborn son.
Two beds, one horizontal and one vertical, covered with chemical fiber sheets. There are buckets and paper baskets on both sides of the cabinet. Buckets are really used for urinating. Sister Lin told us that the used urine bucket would be put in the cupboard in the corridor. After we leave, she will come over to pee and pour in the vegetable field. This is fertilizer and can't be wasted. We shouldn't get rid of it ourselves.
There is a small wooden window on the outer wall of the room, which is deeply concave. We can see the amazing thickness of the wall. Standing in front of the window, we can't help but sigh, alas, we once lived in a corner of a huge castle, one of 400 rooms, which is more like a nest in a beehive, or a melon seed-if the Chengqi Building is regarded as a sunflower.
Turning off the light and sleeping in bed, I feel vaguely that such a big earth building is just a small circle embedded in the earth, and the earth is in the universe, but it also ... falls asleep soon.
To tell the truth, tulou, as a folk house, is not so comfortable. Every house has four floors and no separate stairs. It's very troublesome to take the public stairs when washing and eating, and to run around upstairs and downstairs.
By the way, we didn't hear the sound of going to the toilet like rain. Most rooms were empty, and there were few tourists at that time. However, even if it is crowded with people, I don't think that kind of primitive indigenous voice will appear again.