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Top 10 alternative ways to spend the Spring Festival

Updated: 2011-01-28 15:51

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Tulou, Taste the Hakka New Year

Joining the World Heritage has brought many Hakka young people back to their hometown in southeast China's Fujian province and open guesthouses in their old Tulou homes.

Tulou is a large enclosed building, rectangular or circular in configuration, with a very thick weight supporting earth wall (up to 6 feet thick) and wooden skeletons, from three to five story's high, housing up to 80 families.

Top 10 alternative ways to spend the Spring Festival
Tulou is a large enclosed building, rectangular or circular in configuration.

Most of these old buildings have been refurbished to provide greater living conveniences, which makes Tulou a nice option to taste the Hakka culture while joining the ecstasy of the Spring Festival with local people.

Traffic: In Fujian province, Tulou of Hakka people are widely spread all over Nanjing county of Zhangzhou city and Yongding county of Longyan city. There are trains heading to Tulou from Guangdong and Shanghai.

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