It is difficult to make a distinction between a personal ‘house’ and the ‘village’ in a typical Chinese Hakka earth building, Tulou. The border line between personal houses and a village is not clear, because the houses itself are a village, a village itself also is the houses. For that reason, the introduction on the Hong Xiuquan's birth home, Guanlubu, in the document of Theodore Hamberg is not clear. Hamberg, in his book, The Visions of Hong xiu Tsheun and Origin of the Kwang si Insurrection, published in Hong Kong in 1854, made a detailed explanation about the houses of Hong's families and the village he had lived in. His explanation, however, is obscure and uncertain to understand, because he compulsorily separated the Hong's houses from the village, Guanlubu, according to the Western conception of residential culture. In this point of view, the paper focuses on the former residence of Hong Xiuquan, examines the structure of his village, Guanlubu. It is concluded that Guanlubu was a half-circle pattern village, or half-moon shape village which had a large half-moon shape pond, two ‘curl-back dragon’ rows of houses with narrow lanes in the back, and half-a-dozen houses in the front. It was a village of Wei Long Yu(圍龍屋) which is sad to be the representative Hakka Tulou type.

It is difficult to make a distinction between a personal ‘house’ and the ‘village’ in a typical Chinese Hakka earth building, Tulou. The border line between personal houses and a village is not clear, because the houses itself are a village, a village itself also is the houses. For that reason, the introduction on the Hong Xiuquan's birth home, Guanlubu, in the document of Theodore Hamberg is not clear. Hamberg, in his book, The Visions of Hong xiu Tsheun and Origin of the Kwang si Insurrection, published in Hong Kong in 1854, made a detailed explanation about the houses of Hong's families and the village he had lived in. His explanation, however, is obscure and uncertain to understand, because he compulsorily separated the Hong's houses from the village, Guanlubu, according to the Western conception of residential culture. In this point of view, the paper focuses on the former residence of Hong Xiuquan, examines the structure of his village, Guanlubu. It is concluded that Guanlubu was a half-circle pattern village, or half-moon shape village which had a large half-moon shape pond, two ‘curl-back dragon’ rows of houses with narrow lanes in the back, and half-a-dozen houses in the front. It was a village of Wei Long Yu(圍龍屋) which is sad to be the representative Hakka Tulou type.

Hong Xiuquan, birth home, Guanlubu, Hakka village(Tulou), Huaxian