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Earth buildings may be enlisted World Cultural Heritage

Updated: 2004-12-14 01:35

Aerial view of Earth buildings located at Chuxi Village, Xiayang town, Yongding County, in east China's Fujian Province in this picture taken December 10, 2004. The State Bureau of Cultural Relics has applied to UNESCO to place Earth buildings on the World Cultural Heritage List. They are called earth buildings because of their height and their strong, outer shell, which were built with soil and wood by the Hakka people. The mushroom-like structures were once a defense against bandits and marauders. There are about 30,000 earth buildings, dating mostly from the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, in the Fujian Province, southern and eastern China. Picture taken December 10, 2004. [Reuters]
Inside view of an earth buiding located at Chuxi Village, Xiayang town, Yongding county, in east China's Fujian Province in this picture taken December 10, 2004. [Reuters]
An inside view of a Tianluokeng earth buidings located at Shangfan Village, Shuyang town, Nanjing county, in east China's Fujian Province in this picture taken December 10, 2004. [Reuters]
An elderly woman stands at her door inside the "Yuchang" earth buidings located at Village, Xiayang town, Yongding county, in east China's Fujian Province in this picture taken December 10, 2004. [Reuters]

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