二宜楼
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　　二宜楼座落于华安县仙都镇大地村，是福建土楼中最早列为全国重点文物保护单位的土楼。二宜楼始建于清乾隆35年（1770 年）， 由华安蒋氏的开基之祖蒋仕熊建造。二宜有宜山宜水、宜内宜外之意。二宜楼直径71.2米，由四层的外环楼与单层的内环楼组成。外环52个开间，正门、祖堂及两个侧门占4个开间，其余48个开间组成12个单元，其中10个为4开间的单元，一个为3开间的单元和一个5开间的单元。每个单元自成体系，从内院入口，各自有内天井，独自设楼梯上下，俗称“通天厝”。 二宜楼在第四层外墙之内设“隐通廊”，不仅便于防卫时互相救援，而且方便单元之间的联系。为生活和防御的方便，二宜楼还设有神秘的传声筒和地下逃生通道。传声筒设在每一个单元的外围石砌墙角，洞内空腔呈“S”型，平时楼内居民夜晚归来敲门家人听不见，只要对着洞口一喊，家人就会出来开门。 在战时这个传声筒能起到及时通报敌情，传递信息作用。地下逃生通道设在天井的一角的排水沟内。 平时用花冈石加盖。
　　土楼大门是用130毫米厚的实木木板拼接而成，材料一般是槁树木或梓木等耐火木材。门框用条石砌成。为对付火攻，除了在木门表面包铁皮之外，还在门顶过梁上置“水槽”，并与二层楼上的竹筒连通。这样从二楼往竹筒中灌水，水就通过门顶上的过梁均匀地沿木门外皮流下，形成水幕迅速浇灭大火，有效地抵御敌人的火攻
　　二宜楼外墙墙角石砌，墙身夯土。二宜楼外墙厚达2.53米，往上逐层收分。在第三层1.8米厚的土墙顶面上是1米宽的“隐通廊”， 第四层外墙还有80厘米厚。二宜楼是福建土楼墙厚之最。
　　 二宜楼最盛时居住106户，近500人，如今保存完好。仍为蒋氏居住，住有30多户200多人。
　　 土墙、黛瓦质感准确，表现到位， 具有极强的感染力。
天井、地墁、石砌墙基等的做法与实际做法相同，令人惊叹。作品每个局部皆有身临其境之感。那一堵堵斑驳的土墙，那一扇扇破旧的木门，那一幅幅褪色的对联，大门上那锈迹斑斑又光滑发亮的门环会把你带到温馨又遥远的记忆。


Er Yi Building

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Located at Dadi Village, Xiandu Town, Hua’an County, Er Yi Building is the first to be designated as national monument among earth buildings in Fujian province. It was built in Qing dynasty (Qian Long Empire 35years,1770) by the founder of Hua’an Jiang Family, Jiang Shixiong. Er Yi means “suitable to water and mountain” and “suitable to inside and outside”. With a diameter of 71.2 meters, Er Yi Building was made of four outer loop buildings and one inner loop building. The outer loop building is made of 52 Jians four of which are occupied by front door, side doors and ancenstor hall, the other 48 Jians are grouped into 12 units, 10 four-Jians units, one three-Jians unit and one five-Jians unit. Every unit can be a self-constructed system with entrance to the inner courtyard and inside patio, and every unit owns stairs as vertical connection by itself. ?(Jian: room or space between two columns.)There is a hidden propylaea inside the forth outer wall. With this passage people can help each other during a warfare defense, moreover, the passage can build a comfortable connection between different units. For the sake of convenience and defense, people have built secret “microphone” and underground exit in Er Yi Building. The “microphone”—a hollow space in S-shape is set up inside the cornerstone in the outer wall of every unit. Normally people who are back home late at night cannot make themselves heard by simply knocking at the door, they can cry through the “microphone” to tell their family would come to open the door. In wartime people can transfer messages about enemy’s situations through the “microphone”. The underground exit is founded in one corner of the patio in the drainage trench, and it is covered with granites usually.

The gate of the earth building is a collage of 1.3 centimeters thick solid wooden panels, and usually the woods are fire-proof materials such as catalpa. The doorframe is made of slim stones. To fight against fire in the warfare, the wooden door is covered with sheet iron. Moreover, on top of the lintel there is a gutter which connects the bamboo tube on the upper floor. In this case, water runs from upper floor through the bamboo tube and falls below the lintel along the gate, and this waterscreen would put out the fire in a possible warfare.The corner of the outer wall in Er Yi Building is made of stone, with the wall itself made of tampered earth.

The outer wall is about 2.53 meters thick and is tapered gradually towards the peak. There is an one meter wide hidden propylaea on the top of third 1.8 meter thick earth wall, and the forth outer wall is 80 centimeters wide.

Therefore Er Yi Building is the earth building with thickest walls. In the peak period Er Yi Building was occupied by 106 families, nearly 500 people. Today it was preserved intact and still occupied by Jiang, with 30 families, 300 people.

The 1 to 100 scale model represents the texture of earth wall and black tiles truly and impressively. The patio, ground pavement and stone wall base are produced according to original construction methods. Every part of the work make people feel the actual atmosphere. Mottled earth walls, shabby wooden gates, faded couplets and rusted and shining knocker on the gate would help people recollect the remoting past.