this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2024
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Inhabited Beauty

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For photos of beautiful, still-inhabited locales! It can be a quick snapshot of your local town, a breathtaking pro photo of a city, or a pic of some fascinating piece of modern life.

The only real rule is that it must be an actively inhabited/used location (ie not ruins or natural locales). Otherwise, go wild. Anything that you find beautiful or interesting!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_people

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Oh huh, like a miniature walled city. Interesting.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Just ignore this. It's not time to wake up from the simulation yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why is everything glowing like I’m on mushrooms? Weird photo compression artifacts here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like the shrooms haven’t worn off yet

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I guess I shoulda done more drugs 20 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What are those round buildings?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I think they are multi units apartment style buildings.

I saw that in the Mulan live action remake.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Seems like this more specifically for anyone wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujian_tulou?wprov=sfla1

Thanks for the link!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Like living in a field of donuts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I second wanting to know what those round buildings are

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

it's beautiful but i don't know if i could live in a house that was too low