Guangxi Gongcheng Lewan Village Chen Family Mansion.

The Chen Family Mansion, also known as Xianwei Public Ancestral Hall, was built in the Qing Dynasty. It faces east and is made of brick and wood. It is similar to the Fujian Tulou, but the style is different. According to the inscription: the Tulou is square, the outer wall is more than 8 meters high, the inner width is 44 meters, and the area is 2244 square meters. The Chen Family Mansion is a Tulou, but most of the building materials are bluestone and green brick tiles. The middle three-in-one soil part is only 1 meter high. There are three halls, two patios and forty-eight rooms inside. Including the mill room, the stone mortar room, the livestock room for cattle and horses and the well. From the outside, the majestic mansion is backed by the steep Tiger Mountain, and there are several moats like moats in the southeast and north. The Chen family chose such a place to build a mansion, which is far-sighted and quite wise. As long as the gate is closed, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is a solid castle. The Chen Family Mansion took a long time to build, just like the Tulou in Zhangzhou. This mansion took a full 19 years to build, which was almost a generation in the past. He said that our Chen family originated in Erdu Dongpu Village, Zhao'an County, Zhangzhou, Fujian. In the fourth year of Jiaqing (1799 AD), the tenth and eleventh ancestors of the Chen family led several groups of clans to travel thousands of miles and settled in Lewan Village, Gongcheng. It has been 213 years for 10 generations. Among them, their ancestor was Chen Shangguang, the first generation from Fujian, who built this mansion. From the beginning of Daoguang's preparation for construction, to the completion of Daoguang's mid-term, it took 19 years. This "mansion" is a deluxe version of Fujian's square "Tulou", but it is different from Fujian's "Tulou", with the garden atmosphere of Lingnan.