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碉楼（Diaolou） Kaiping Diaolou is located in Guangdong Province, Kaiping City, is a special type of China vernacular architecture, is a kind of multi tower building in defense, residential and Western architectural art in one of the. According to the existing empirical, Kaiping towers, the latest in the late Ming Dynasty (Sixteenth Century) has been produced by the end of nineteenth Century early twentieth Century become a unique group of architectural image Chinese overseas Chinese history, social patterns and cultural traditions. This type of large-scale buildings, many kinds, unique style, located in rural Kaiping city. The characteristics of Chinese and western residential areas, ancient Greece, ancient Rome and Islam and a variety of style. Since the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), Kaiping, Taishan, Enping, located between the new and emerging four counties, as four no matter, rampant bandits, social order; and many rivers, each typhoon rainstorm, flood disasters, local people were forced to in the village built towers in order to protect themselves. 06 2001 25 July, Kaiping towers as a modern important historical and architectural representation, approved by the State Council as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units list. Qing Shunzhi six years (1649) located in Kaiping County, to start peace, so named Kaiping. Since the county, agency thief scrambling convergence, security stability than before, so the number of the Qing Dynasty. Prior to the 1840 Opium War is the initial stage of the development of Kaiping diaolou. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the implementation of the Chinese exclusion policy in the United States, Canada and other countries overseas, in the harsh environment forced the Kaiping overseas Chinese can only be their wish in my hometown. They have to buy housing, land, wedding as hard outside the highest life goal, will continue his savings of hard-earned money to return to Kaiping, thus providing