Hukeng, Fujian

Hukeng
湖坑鎮
Nanjiang Village, a section of the "Great Wall of Tulou" in the Nanxi Valley
Nanjiang Village, a section of the "Great Wall of Tulou" in the Nanxi Valley
Hukeng is located in Fujian
Hukeng
Hukeng
Location in Fujian
Coordinates: 24°39′00″N 116°57′00″E / 24.65000°N 116.95000°E / 24.65000; 116.95000
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceFujian
Prefecture-level cityLongyan
DistrictYongding District
Area
 • Total95 km2 (37 sq mi)
Population
 (1997)
 • Total24,000
 http://www.xzqh.org/html/2008/1217/9544.html
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)

Hukeng (Chinese: 湖坑) is a town (a township-level division) situated in Yongding County, Longyan, Fujian, China.[1]

Hukeng town contains one of the Hakka settlements in China.[2] Moreover, a large number of Fujian Tulou are located with the territory administratively included within Hukeng, with a few within the actual Hukeng Town area. In particular, administratively, Hukeng includes the valley of the Nanxi (南溪, "South Creek"), where several villages (Yangduo, Xinnan, Nanzhong, Nanjiang, Shijia) consisting mostly of tulou form what some writers have dubbed the "Nanxi Great Wall of Tulou".

  1. ^ "湖坑镇 (Hukeng Town)" (in Chinese). xzqh.org. Archived from the original on 2011-09-21. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
  2. ^ Lin, Hsiao Hsien; Chen, I.-Yun; Lu, Shih-Yun; Tseng, Yi-Han; Lin, Jao-Chuan (1 January 2022). "Can cultural tourism resources become a development feature helping rural areas to revitalize the local economy under the epidemic? An exploration of the perspective of attractiveness, satisfaction, and willingness by the revisit of Hakka cultural tourism". Open Geosciences. 14 (1): 590–606. doi:10.1515/geo-2022-0358. ISSN 2391-5447.