Yunshuiyao Ancient Town

Raised on 3,000 square meters of marshland, the 21.5-meter Hegui Lou ranks among the tallest square tulou, resting firmly for two centuries on some two hundred pine piles.

Huaiyuan Lou is a double-ringed round tulou noted for fine preservation and strong defenses, with an ancestral hall named Sishishi full of carved beams and scholarly atmosphere.

Reputedly leaning yet still standing after earthquakes and floods, Cuimei Lou is an unusual Hakka round earthen building that shows the builders' grasp of structural mechanics.

Thirteen centuries-old banyans shade Yunshuiyao, where a clear stream murmurs past creaking waterwheels in a romantic, poetic rural village.

In 1732, the Jian clan of Nanjing built Hegui Lou, a tulou in southern Fujian.

In 2008, Hegui Lou and Huaiyuan Lou were inscribed as Nanjing County components of the serial Fujian Tulou property.