Those round houses people are asking about are traditional homes of the Hakka people. IRC they are made that way to be highly defensible. No buff on Chinese history, but they’re ethnic Han Chinese living in the mountains of South of China, and I think there was some animosity.
I’m reading Neal Stephenson’s REAMDE, I just got to the part where they’re talking about tulous in Fujian, and this post pops up. Weird coincidence.
Why is everything glowing like I’m on mushrooms? Weird photo compression artifacts here.
What are those round buildings?
Traditional homes of the Hakka people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_people
Seems like this more specifically for anyone wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujian_tulou?wprov=sfla1
Thanks for the link!
Like living in a field of donuts.