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Earth buildings may be enlisted World Cultural Heritage
Updated: 2004-12-14 01:35
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 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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