Panorama of Daoyun Building
Appearance of Daoyun Building
Daoyun Building, located in Nanlian Village, Sanrao, Raoping County, was built in the 15th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1587) and is the largest octagonal Hakka paddock in China. At its peak, Tulou could accommodate more than 600 Hakkas, and now there are still more than 65,438+000 people living in Tulou. The wall thickness of the earth building is 1.6m, and the wall height is above11m.. The feature of tulou is that the whole tulou is related to gossip everywhere, and the number of all buildings is a multiple of 8, such as 32 wells, 16 skylights, 72 rooms, 1 12 ladders. There are two wells in the middle hall of the earth building, which looks like gossip. Earth buildings have eight functions: waterproof, fire-proof, animal-proof, earthquake-proof, anti-theft and drought-proof. The tiles of the earth building are wrapped in earth cloth and then burned. Now you can distinguish the cloth pattern on the edge of the tiles. Bamboo nails are used in earth buildings, and there are no signs of decay after many years. It is said that during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, the tulou was surrounded by bandits incorporated by the government for three months and could not be broken. Hundreds of residents in the tulou lived on stored grain and well water, and used the inner ditch above the tulou for irrigation to protect officers and men from gunfire, thus avoiding the disaster. There are three-story circular houses in front of and behind the earth building, and the outermost circle is three stories high. Hundreds of years later, the earth building is still very strong. In the earthquake 80 years ago, most of the houses nearby collapsed, but only a few houses in the earth building tilted left and right, supporting the whole earth building. According to the local elderly living in Tulou, it is a coincidence that Tulou was built into a gossip-shaped paddock. At first, it was designed as a circular paddock, and it was only after three constructions and three falls that a large-scale gossip paddock was built, which is rare in China.
Xingfeng is the hometown of ceramics.
Xingfeng, located at the southern end of Raoping, is a famous hometown of ceramics in history. The annual export of ceramics here is as high as 1 100 million yuan. The famous uranium mines and white porcelain are the characteristics here.
Beach Rock is near the "Bilong" in Haishan Town.
Bilong, located in Haishan Town, Raoping County, is a shell alluvial rock with a length of 4,500m from east to west and a width of 1 150m, with a total area of 2,875 hectares. Because the exposed part is located on the beach, it looks like a long dragon, commonly known as "Bilong". According to experts' research, the beach rock field is made up of aragonite, high-magnesium calcite, foraminifera, marine shells, microfossils and fine sand grains accumulated and cemented for a long time under specific address conditions, with a history of about 5000 years. Now it is the third geological relic protection zone in Guangdong Province.
Zhelin Town "Town Wind Tower"
Zhenfeng Tower is located in Zhelin Town, Raoping County, at the mouth of Feng Fengling Canyon. Zhenfeng Pagoda was built in the Yuan Dynasty, with a history of more than 600 years. The tower is 22 meters high, with base circumference 16 meters, seven floors and eight sides. The spire is a beautifully made stone gourd, and the tower is surrounded by a circular screen surrounded by stone slabs. The tower is now a key cultural relic protection unit in Guangdong Province.
"Shibi Temple" in Huanggang Town
"Shibi Temple" is located in Yun Qi Mountain, about two kilometers away from Huanggang Town, Raoping County, so the mountain is named after Shibi Mountain. There are many landscapes on the mountain, such as Su Yuquan, Guleiyin Temple, Nahailou and Compassion Pavilion. Among them, Shu Yuquan was formed in a natural cave on the mountain, and there are endless springs all the year round.
"Blue Ice Mortar" in Zhangxi Town
There are more than 2,000 kinds of pottery sculptures in Qinglan Valley, Zhangxi Town, Raoping County, which are the remains left by glacier movement about two or three million years ago. The largest round mortar mouth in the group is six or seven meters wide and two or three meters deep. The mollusk is located in the tropical and subtropical area of 23 "12' north latitude, with an altitude of less than 100 meters, which is of great significance to the statement that Guangdong may be a cold zone of ice and snow millions of years ago.
Zhelin Town "Egret Paradise"
Xi 'ao Island, Tuolin Town, Raoping County, is called "Egret Paradise" because of the flocks of egrets. The egret in Western Australia is a yellow-billed egret, which is a national second-class protected wild animal.