Located in Zhangzhou City's Nanjing County, Tianluokeng Village is famous for its Tulou cluster. The top level of these earth buildings have gun holes for defense against bandits. It consists of ...

Photo: Xinhua Photo taken on April 16, 2012 shows internal scene of a Tulou in Tianluokeng Tulou cluster in Nanjing County, southeast China's Fujian Province. Photo: Xinhua ...

"We feel warm living inside a Tulou as the thick walls keep the wind from blowing into the enclosed space," said Huang Nanbin, 34, who was born and lives in He Chang Tulou, one of the five Tulou s ...

Tulou walls are made from mud bricks. When viewed from above, the layout of the Tianluokeng Tulou Complex resembles a plum blossom. Photos: Li Hao/GT ...

Photo shows the scenery of Tianluokeng Tulou, earth buildings in Chinese, in Nanjing County, southeast China's Fujian Province. Fujian Tulou is a type of Chinese rural dwellings of the Hakka and ...

In the Fujian province of southeast China, giant fort-like structures stand among the mountains. Aerial view of Tianluokeng Tulou cluster in Fujian, ChinaJui-Chi Chan/Getty Images ...

The cluster lies among mountains and rivers with dozens of tulou, or earth buildings, in a unique design. Among them, Wuyun Building, built in the Ming Dynasty (1369-1644), embodies the time ...