Gongqing Lou
It is situated in the eastern part of Chuxi Village. Facing the north, it is a hexagonal Tulou
built in 1949 and covers an area of 3500 square meters. With a facade 40 meters wide, it is
31 meters in depth and 4 storeys in height, the roof of which is sloped with frontal part lower
than the rear part. The number of rooms and halls altogether totals 152, with four staircases
and one gate. It has inner corridors connecting the rooms, with the corridors on the 3rd and 4th
floors projecting further than that of the 2nd floor. The single-storey wood-and-brick structured
ancestral hall is in the center of the inner yard.
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