this is Mulan's home
well according to Disney at least when
the teaser for Disney's latest Mulan
came out last year he will notice these
mysterious round structures we were
intrigued to and after some googling we
found out that they're too low which are
these massive earthen fortresses built
more than 600 years ago and sorry Disney
Mulan probably didn't live in one there
are over 3,700 too low in China and most
of them are in Fujian Province we wanted
to know who built them and do people
still live there so we paid a visit to
Yong ping an Aryan Fujian famous for too
low to see it for ourselves and we found
this grandpa whoa Finn yang Yong Yong
auntie boy spots a doula what she owed
you that have been to war him thing to
Nakata the Hakka people are a minority
group in China in Chinese their name
means guest people because they were
always moving around historically Hakka
people never stayed in one place for too
long because of constant persecution the
two lowing young thing were built by
Hakka people escaping invasions by the
churches and later the Mongols in the
northern part of China during the 11th
century thank you you know somehow we
can he talked about APA play hora Toto
be a title piscina pay old sleeping beer
soda for you did you think you didn't
put a lot they incorporated defensive
elements into their new homes
the tulo was designed to make it easy to
look out for intruders
and this too low and young thing has
been called the king of to low because
of its size and complexity with a
diameter of 240 feet at its widest point
and a height of more than 50 feet it's
about two-thirds the size of a soccer
field the story goes that grandpa
Chang's great-great great-great-great
in short 11th great-grandfather young
chitra built it more than 300 years ago
at one point 80 families comprising 600
people lived here it was a compact
self-sufficient community so here's how
it's built before construction begins a
Fung Shui Master is invited to select an
ideal location for luck once they've
decided where the main entrance will be
a circle is drawn around the center with
a rope the foot of the wall is made with
stones small holes are covered with
cobbles to prevent water from seeping in
finally the wall is made by ramming soil
into wooden molds the tool can grow
depending on the needs of the families
team tiro y being kinda cool demeanor
hi-oh struggling here the outer layer
acts as a first line of defense the wall
is tall and thick and practically
impossible to dig through yellow goop
all bunting lod on top so low so low or
medium late yet everyone gets an
identical room regardless of age or
standing in the family each ring layer
includes a 6-foot corridor the second
ring has to close with 40 rooms on each
floor the third ring has a single floor
with 32 rooms the final innermost layer
includes the ancestral Hall where
important festivals and ceremonies are
held
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there are also restaurants shots and
even a school it has everything that
grandpa's young needs so he rarely
leaves the two low sounds another
chicken - chicken - so your party - I
know what that how are you soon make it
both laugh it would sit top authorities
thought so we had one month oh yeah
pointy each other
we led a campaign poster shugendo - you
funded shallots what
now what's out of order mother that's
high water this Yahoo what do you think
is watching the whites appeal to change
their pure self dainty Tola achieve due
date - a keyhole that you mean to change
that to put all type of okay you
chickadee a tea party sir wait horses
young king but the two law are a unique
part of Hakka culture and a protected
UNESCO World Heritage Sites
but even though Disney's Mulan trailer
shows her family living in one that
likely didn't happen this is Alice me
truly
she's an illustrator and writer after
the trailer from Mulan came out last
June Alice noticed some inconsistencies
and wrote a piece about the film's
inaccurate use of Chinese elements it's
like just one more thing in a long
history in like America where Westerners
have felt like they could tell Asian
story is better than actual Asian people
and they could just like pick and choose
things that they think are cool from
their culture and
not even respected enough to understand
it Disney's Mulan is based on a Chinese
epic poem called The Ballad of Mulan
that story took place in the fifth
century around 700 years before the
first tulo was even built it's like if
you tried to do a Robin Hood movie like
set seven hundred years later so the
original was like in 1300 so it would be
sent like today and instead of being in
England it would be in Spain so just the
fact that they chose to set it in the
too low at the time it would change
Mullins grace her country and like her
era one thing that happened to cultural
appropriation is that you know people
just pick things up because they look
cool and they don't care about the
history behind it so that's what I'm
thinking like it's very likely that
happened so even though the tulo
probably doesn't belong in the Mulan
movie it has a rich history in its own
rights and tells the story of a
resilient minority surviving together as
one big family
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