
Kaiping Watchtowers and Villages
Located in the Pearl River Delta, these multi-story diaolou, or watchtowers, functioned as both a regional defense system and as residences and warehouses. The watchtowers were built by returning overseas Chinese and integrate Chinese and Western architecture styles.

如何保護開平碉樓文化遺產?
開平市碉樓研究所譚金花博士指出:不是只有像故宮、兵馬俑那種氣勢磅礴的文化遺產才需要保護,才值得研究。事實上,鄉村文化與皇朝文化一樣重要,鄉村文化是生活的文化,與民眾息息相關。

開平碉樓有何建築特色?
開平碉樓大規模興建的年代,正是中國傳統社會向近代社會過渡的階段。外來文化對傳統文化的衝擊方式各不相同,中國沿海開放口岸城市同期的西式建築,主要是被動接受的外國文化、其中不少帶有典型的殖民地文化。
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