Kaiping Diaolou in Zili Village

The diaolou are very beautiful. Chenpi ice cream🍦 is a must-try. Kaiping Diaolou, located in Kaiping City, Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, is one of the Cantonese architectural styles and a representative of Cantonese culture. The Kaiping Diaolou is a unique type of rural Chinese architecture, combining defense, residence, and Western architectural art in multi-story tower buildings. Its distinctive feature is the fusion of Chinese and Western residential styles, including influences from ancient Greek, Roman, and Islamic designs. In the 11th year of the Republic of China (1922), a bandit raid in the Chikan area prompted overseas Chinese to build diaolou on a large scale, reaching over 3,000 at its peak, with 1,833 still existing today. The above content is sourced from Baidu Encyclopedia.