Abstract：The adobe castle is the folk living home of the Kejia people who reside around Yongding County in the southwestern Fujian province. This kind of buildings have special shapes, such as square or circular. Most of them have four floors and an open courtyyard in the middle. People living in them mostly belong to a big clan, a patriarchal clan of the same surname. The castles are built by their owners, who had fled from disasters of wars from northern China to Fujian province. After the East Han Dynasty, flames of wars had been burning everywhere in the north. To defend them selves, the numerous gentry families built castles. When they fled to the Southwestern part of Fujian Provence, to avoid the harassing attacks from the native minority and wild animals, they inherited this kind of architecture. To the local environment, the adobe castles in Yongding County have been developing gradually, especially the circular ones, growing up to a speciality. Because Kejia people moved by the whole clan, on the hand, the adobe castles changed with the specific surroundings, on the other hand, the Kejia culture developed in adobe castles had a powerful cohesive force. So, the adobe castles are not only an external landscape of Kejia culture, but also a kind of external condition for interior culture.
王恩涌. 民居中的奇迹——福建的土楼[J]. 人文地理, 1993, 8(1): 8-12.
Wang En-yong. A MIRACLE IN LOCAL DWELLING HOUSES——THE EARTHEN BUILDINGS IN FUJIAN PROVINCE. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 1993, 8(1): 8-12.
