It is called "oyster", also known as "oyster" and "oyster". As a relatively common seafood in China, it has appeared on people's dining tables for a long time, and it has become a hot commodity in the night market. of dishes. This kind of seafood is rich in protein in the eyes of city people. They usually throw it away after eating it. Little do they know that oyster shells can also be built into houses that have stood for thousands of years. With the development of modern civilization in China, those "oyster shell houses" have also has been reduced year by year. They are like treasures in a museum, which are particularly precious in the modern concrete forest. This is also a good place for modern urbanites to relax on weekends. If you don't go and take a look, they may not be there in a few years!
Oyster Shell House in Quanzhou
In the Hokkien language, house refers to a house building; and oyster shell means oyster shell. There are many oyster shell buildings in Quanzhou, and this oyster shell house Built in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, it is characterized by a wall made of bricks and oyster shells that complement each other. The pieces of oyster shells resemble fish lins, giving it a coastal feel. At present, they are mostly distributed in Fashi Village and Xianpu Village in Quanzhou. These oyster shells are taken from the sea, and houses built with them can avoid seawater erosion.
The Zhao family’s ancestral temple, Hanyi Hall, in Doumen Town, Zhuhai
This is a corner of China’s most promising coastal city, where there are still the most complete, largest, and most modern buildings in China. The oldest oyster shell wall can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. It has a history of more than 600 years and is still standing today. This is the oyster shell wall of the Zhao family's ancestral hall, Hanyi Hall, in Doumen Town. The entire building uses granite and red valley stone as the base of the wall, while the wall is made of yellow mud and oyster shells to form a width of 65 centimeters thick. This kind of house in Zhuhai, which can withstand typhoons, has low manufacturing cost, is warm in winter and cool in summer, is also popular in the Pearl River Delta area.
Shenzhen Shajing Oyster Shell House
In the past, Shenzhen was just a small fishing village in Guangdong. Later, many people gathered in Shenzhen, and the city gradually took shape, and some oysters in Shenzhen Shell houses are also decreasing year by year due to the accelerated urbanization process. This is the Jiang Clan Ancestral Hall located in Shajing Street, Shenzhen. The exposed oyster shell walls are made of thousands of oyster shells. From a distance, they look uniform and full of oyster flavor. A long time ago, local people lived in such oyster shell houses and lived a life of fishing and farming from sunrise to sunset. Today, few people live in oyster shell houses.
As the saying goes? Thousand-year-old bricks, ten-thousand-year-old oysters?, I really hope that relevant units can come forward to preserve these historical oyster shell houses, so that the citizens living in the city made of cement, concrete and steel can retain a touch of warmth. .