广东省开平市是我国著名的侨乡,也是建筑之乡、碉楼之乡。在开平市境内,碉楼星罗棋布,城镇农村都有,形成了岭南乡村一道独特的风景线。现存最早的开平村落建于14世纪。开平碉楼建于16世纪,是一种集防卫、居住和中西建筑艺术于一体的多层塔楼式建筑。到上个世纪二三十年代,随着大量华侨回乡 Kaiping City, Guangdong Province is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese, is also a town of architecture, Diaolou town. In Kaiping City territory, Diaolou dotted, urban and rural areas have formed a unique Lingnan Village landscape. The earliest surviving Kaiping village was built in the 14th century. Built in the 16th century, Kaiping Diaolou is a multi-storey tower-type building integrating defense, living and Chinese and Western architectural art. By the 1920s and 1930s, with a large number of overseas Chinese returning home