Shuitou Village is located in Jincheng Town, Jinmen County, Fujian Province. Due to its coastal location, it has been constantly troubled by bandit intrusions. To defend their homeland, overseas Chinese who had achieved success in business abroad generously invested in building watchtowers with defensive capabilities.
Among them, the “Deyue Building” built in the 1930s by Huang Yanhuang, an overseas Chinese living in Indonesia, is particularly prominent. The Deyue Building, with a Western flavor, is 6 meters high and has two floors. This elegant Western-style building features iron cast fences and latticed window frames. However, it has four protruding gun ports. Each facade has 2 large gun ports and 6 small gun ports. Its genuine defensive function gives the Western-style building an imposing and inviolable air beneath its gorgeous appearance.
