The house built of oyster shells can be seen in Liaopu Village, Quanzhou, Donghai, Quanzhou!
The so-called "oyster house" is also called "oyster shell" (in Minnan language, oyster shell is oyster, and oyster shell is the meaning of house), which is a unique building in southern Fujian, Quanzhou, Fujian Province. The outer wall is made of oyster shells the size of palm after palm, mixed with cement, and has a unique structure.
oyster shells are piled up by thousands of oyster shells, which are not ordinary oyster shells, but oyster shells the size of a palm. This goes back to the Song and Yuan Dynasties. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it used to be an important port on the sea road. People transported tea, porcelain and other goods to Africa to stop trade. When they returned, because the goods were sold out, the cabin was too light and the center of gravity was unstable, which made it difficult to fly. So they picked up the oyster shells that were not needed in Africa and ballasted them, and finally unloaded them at the seaside of Liaopu. According to local conditions, the residents of Liaopu turned waste into treasure and used it as building materials to build a shell. This interesting encounter is also a powerful witness to the Haisi Road in Quanzhou.
At the seaside of Zhongpu, it is corroded by the sea breeze all the year round, and the air is humid. This shell is just suitable for the windy and humid climate of the seaside, which is not only warm in winter but cool in summer, but also windproof and moistureproof. Not afraid of moths. Its wall is solid and can resist the attack of artillery fire, so the local saying "a thousand years brick, a million years bug" is spread.
The splendid history of Quanzhou and the splendid culture of the Maritime Silk Road are recorded. Shell CuO is a house made of oyster shells, which is distributed in Xiangpu Village, Shi Cun and Quanzhou coastal area in Quanzhou. It is a traditional characteristic building in Quanzhou, southern Fujian, and this characteristic building has attracted many tourists at home and abroad.
The outer walls are all made of oyster shells. These oyster shells are not simple shells. They are not from Quanzhou, but from the east coast of Africa.
As far back as the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Quanzhou was a busy and prosperous international port and the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road. Many merchant ships, loaded with silk and porcelain, set sail from Liaopu, flew along the coast of southern Fujian to Nanyang, passed through the Indian Ocean and the east coast of Africa, and then unloaded at the north shore. After unloading along the coast of Africa, it will carry local famous products back to the sea; However, the weight of these goods is far less than that of silk and porcelain. If the cabin is too light, the center of gravity will be unstable, which is not conducive to flying. Based on the consideration of safety, the crew picked up those worthless oyster shells everywhere on the beach in North Africa and put them in the cabin to maintain the balance of the cabin.
When the merchant ship returned to Zhongpu safely, the crew abandoned these ballast oyster shells on the beach. Slowly, these oyster shells accumulated more and more on the beach, and the local residents "used waste". At the same time, they accelerated the construction of houses, and tailored the sea mud and oyster shells to build houses. I didn't expect the effect to be good. The shell is solid, warm in winter and cool in summer. The hard oyster shell not only has the function of waterproof and moistureproof, but also the corrosive salt contained in the sea breeze can't hurt it at all, so it is an ideal residence for coastal residents.
It is a manifestation of the wisdom of the ancients, and it also bears witness to the historical traces of Quanzhou's prosperity.