China - Architecture - Tradition - Hakka Tulou Homes

Looking down on a cluster of traditional Hakka Tulou homes in the county of Yongding, well known as the Hakka Tulou region, in Fujian. In 2008, UNESCO granted the Tulou "Apartments" World Heritage Status, siting the buildings as exceptional examples of a building tradition and function exemplifying a particular type of communal living and defensive organization. The Fujian Tulou is "the most extraordinary type of Chinese rural dwellings" of the Hakka minority group and other people in the mountainous areas in southwestern Fujian. (Photo by Ryan Pyle/Corbis via Getty Images)