Ruishi Lou

Ruishi Tower, situated in Jinjiangli Village, Xiang Gang Town, Kaiping City, was completed in 1923 after a 3-year construction. The owner Huang Bixiu, assumed name-Ruishi, a wealthy businessman, ran a money shop and a herbal medicine shop in Hong Kong. The name of the tower was written by a well-known calligrapher in Guangdong province-Great Master Tiechan, head monk of the Liurong Temple in Guangzhou City. The twoer is 9 stoereys high, a steel reinforced concrete structure, and its main building materials, including steel bars, iron plates, cement, glass and timber, were imported from Hong Kong. The design of the tower is of standard Western fashion, and the interior decoration is of traditional Guangdong manner. It is a typical residence, the Parlour on the ground floor, and alll other floors from the 2nd to the 6th storeys allocated with halls, bedrooms, toiliets and kitchens. In June 2001, the tower was declared by the State Council to be a national key unit of cultural heritage protection.