Kaiping Watchtower is a Must-Go place

If you want to walk around the Guangzhou City with your camera, Kaiping Watchtower is a Must-Go place. Only one and a half hour driving distance from the heart of the city, you will find a totally exotic place. There are hundreds and thousands watchtowers erected peacefully in fields. Behind every single one, there was a story,  similar stories with different details.  Yes, 100 years ago, people were poor and they did farming for living. Wars and local robbery took their peace away; many people left their home and sailed long way to San Francisco to seek a better life. Although life wasn't pleasant there, either for them, they missed their home country so much. Therefore, even if they starved, even if they were discriminated in their work place, they contributed most of their money to build the watchtowers in their hometown in order to keep their kids and family safe. Most people like Kaiping Diaolou, Welcome to travel when you go to Guangzhou for the 114th Canton Fair .

The brick buildings are mainly located in the hills and plains, with the brick in three ways: First, the Ming Dynasty indigenous fired red brick, the second is the period of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of locally fired brick, three modern red brick. Early indigenous fired red brick masonry towers, Kaiping has been rare, Ying Lung Lau early construction of some, is extremely valuable relics. The blue brick towers, including three kinds within the mud outside the brick and cement within the outer blue bricks and brick masonry. A small number of towers with modern red-brick construction, wiping out of the red brick with a layer of cement. Kaiping existing brick building is nearly 249, accounting for 13.6% of the total number of towers. Concrete floor, mainly in the plain and hilly areas, also known as "concrete floor" or "stone-meter floor, built in the twentieth century II, the 1930s, overseas Chinese to absorb the different characteristics of the world building design and construction, modeling the most reflects the Chinese and Western architectural features. The use of cement in the whole towers (usually imported from the United Kingdom, then known as "orang mud), sand, gravel and steel built, very rugged. Rely on imported building materials at that time, the higher cost, in order to save material, some of the towers of the inner surface of the floor made of wood Court. The Kaiping existing concrete floor, 1474, the largest number of Kaiping Watchtowers, accounting for 80.4 percent.