Kinmen Folk Culture Village

Coordinates: 24°30′12.3″N 118°26′27.8″E / 24.503417°N 118.441056°E / 24.503417; 118.441056

Kinmen Folk Culture Village

The Kinmen Folk Culture Village (Chinese: 金門民俗文化村; pinyin: Jīnmén Mínsú Wénhuà Cūn) is a culture village in Jinsha Township, Kinmen County, Fujian Province, Republic of China.[1]

History

The culture village was designed by an architect from Jiangxi and built by Wang Kuo-jeng, a successful businessman who created his wealth while he was in Japan. The construction started in 1876 and it took 25 years to complete all buildings in this area in the year 1900. During the martial law period, the village was renovated to become a folk culture village and later in 1995 was included into the Kinmen National Park.[2] It was the first village in Kinmen which was turned into a tourist destination.[3][4]

Architecture

The culture village has the most complete range of types of Fujian buildings and consists of 18 house buildings, which are 16 symmetrical two-courtyard historic houses, an ancestral shrine and a school academy. All of the buildings were built on the hillside facing the sea in three orderly rows.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Taiwan Culture Portal - The tender side of Kinmen: Folk culture in Kinmen". Culture.tw. 2012-06-22. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
  2. ↑ "Folk Culture Village - 民俗文化村 | roundTAIWANround". Rtaiwanr.com. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
  3. 1 2 "Shanhou Folk Culture Village : Kinmen Island – Taiwan". Fili's World Travel.
  4. ↑ http://www.filination.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Kinmen-Folk-Culture-Village-047.jpg
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