Introduction to the Zili Village Watchtower Group: The Zili Village Watchtower Group is located in Tangkou Town, Kaiping City. Most of the watchtowers in the village were built in the 1920s and 1930s. There are currently 15 watchtowers of different styles, exquisite shapes, and rich connotations. An outstanding representative of Kaiping Diaolou in its heyday.
The natural environment of the village is beautiful, with ponds, lotus ponds, rice fields and grasslands scattered among them. They are in perfect contrast with numerous watchtowers and residences. It is so beautiful that it forms an idyllic and poetic farming ink painting of a sunny spring scene, with a unique Lingnan rural atmosphere. Western style castle village.
The construction dates of the existing watchtowers and Luyi buildings in the village are: Longsheng Tower (1917), Yangxian Villa (1919), Qiu'an Julu (1920), Yunhuan Tower (1921), and Ju'an Tower (1922), Yaoguang Villa (1923), Zhulin Building (1924), Zhen'an Building (1924), Mingshi Building (1925), Anlu (1926), Yinong Building (1929), Ye Sheng lived in Lu (1930), Guan Sheng lived in Lu (1934), Lan lived in Lu (1935), and Zhan Lu (1948).