Hakka Indenture Museum

The village lies in a narrow valley and is home to a Hakka community, people once called guests because they arrived as refugees from the north centuries ago and still hold together closely. Its name means stone storage, from a legend about a cave that supplied grain until greedy villagers broke it open and found only stones. The museum was designed by a Chinese practice.

To honour that story, the building draws on the local way of building bridges and houses. Rough-hewn stones are stacked in a loose lattice to form massive walls that continue the slope at the edge of the village.

On ordinary days, nozzles spray a fine curtain of water inside. Sunlight falls through a long slot in the roof onto the mist and forms a rainbow, a passing effect that draws visitors who then bring life to the neighbouring villages too.

The museum has no controlled entry and shows copies of Hakka land contracts, some several hundred years old. Rooted in the village legend, it has helped revive both local craft and material culture.