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Hakka Village > The Earthen Dwellings of Yongding |
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The
square buildings, older than the round ones, date back
a thousand years.
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Leaving Ninghua, we drove past Qingliu, Liancheng
and Shanghang. In these places, people all talk in the Hakka
dialect, albeit with slight differences from place to place
- a far cry from the local Fujian dialect. In western Fujian
there are many counties exclusively inhabited by the Hakka people,
such as Wuping, Mingxi, Changting and Yongding, in addition
to the counties mentioned above.
In Liancheng, there is a paper mill which makes Xuan rice paper
and still utilizes a traditional water pump to make pulp. Unlike
Xuan paper factories in Anhui Province, no machines are used
in the entire production process. Seeing such primitive ways
of manufacturing paper helps one to better understand life long
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The
Liancheng Xuan Paper Mill, built more than 300 years
ago .
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ago.
As our car entered Yongding County, tobacco plants began to
appear in vast fields, as Yongding is an important tobacco producer
in Fujian Province. More curious, however, were the many round,
open-topped objects rising high in the fields. On closer inspection
we found that they were earthen buildings typical to this region,
and have been inhabited by generation after generation of Hakka
people. |
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