Nowadays, people with high-rise buildings in the city have become accustomed to it, which shows that people's living standards are good now. The older generation said that they used to live in straw houses, yellow mud houses, and later red tile houses. Now these houses show how happy people are now. However, have you ever thought about building a house with oysters? Today, Bian Xiao will introduce you to this wall made of oysters.

Speaking of oysters, we all know that it is a kind of seafood with high nutritional value, and it is also the favorite of barbecue in summer. In some coastal areas, oysters are everywhere, so there are walls made of oyster shells. The shell of an oyster is black and ugly, and looks like the surface of a rock reef, so it can't be a work of art or an ornament like other beautiful shells. But because this shell is hard, do the locals still have it? A thousand-year-old brick, a thousand-year-old oyster? Statement. Therefore, areas producing oysters try to use this ugly oyster shell as building materials to build houses.

Bian Xiao has been to a village where there is a wall made of oyster shells. This village is Panyu daling village, located in Shilou Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou. In the past, people here collected the shells after eating oysters, and then piled them up layer by layer with brown sugar, steamed glutinous rice and adhesive made of loess. According to local people, these walls have a history of more than 600 years, but they are still well preserved.

Later, it was found that this kind of oyster building material was different from other building materials. The oyster shell wall not only has the effect of being warm in winter and cool in summer, but also can prevent theft and sound insulation. Everyone says that no one dares to climb the oyster shell wall, because to climb the oyster shell wall, you have to cut off your hands and feet, which is full of anti-theft effect. Oyster shell walls are very durable. Even if the walls are mottled, they are still as strong as ever. It is said that it can resist the attack of firearms. Moreover, the wall of oyster shell is uneven, and the sun shines obliquely on the wall, which has a sense of lines and sculpture.

In fact, oyster shells are no longer widely used as building materials. The oyster shell wall appeared because it was the product of the ancient people's adaptation and transformation of nature. Before the appearance of reinforced concrete, the ancients, with their superb life wisdom, used local materials to turn waste into treasure, and developed cheap oyster shell building materials according to different natural conditions in different places.

The local people in the village told Bian Xiao that oyster shells were a common building method in Ming Dynasty. At that time, oyster shell walls appeared in ancestral temples admired by everyone or in the homes of rich people. The reason why it is especially favored by big families is that it has anti-theft function. In addition, oyster shells were chosen as building materials, mostly because they were eaten by the sea at that time, and eating and raising oysters were more common. The materials of oyster shells are very rich, and the local materials are convenient enough. Now there are many oyster shell walls in Quanzhou, Fujian and Pearl River Delta, Guangdong. Interested friends can go and have a look. I don't know what you think about this. Welcome to leave a message in the comments section.