Located in Huizhou, this museum immersively presents the Jia people’s thousand-year migration epic and their architectural wisdom. Featuring over 300 artifacts and images, it traces the Jia people’s journey from the Central Plains to the Guangdong East Coast, vividly recreating the historical landscape of the “Jia people traveling to all corners of the world.” The core exhibit, “The Code of the Courtyard,” utilizes a 1:1 scale three-dimensional architectural model to analyze the defensive wisdom and family ethics of the courtyard’s “four-corner tower plus courtyard” layout. Visitors can touch simulated door panels to experience the ingenuity of the mortise-and-tenon craftsmanship. The interactive theater, “Jia Journey,” uses holographic projection to recreate the hardships of the Jia merchants’ “going west” during the Ming and Qing dynasties, accompanied by Jia folk songs, bringing history to life. The museum delves into the essence of Jia culture, displaying handwritten manuscripts of Huang Zunchen (a late Qing Dynasty reformist poet) and letters from Qiu Fengjia (an anti-logician), showcasing the Jia people’s “cherishing culture and education” spirit. A special “Jia Taste” experience area allows visitors to participate in making salt-roasted chicken and braised tofu, savoring the flavors of hometown. As a living museum of Jia culture, it is not only a display of architectural wisdom but also the Jia people’s “homeland everywhere, roots in the Central Plains” spirit totem, allowing every visitor to understand “The Jia people are the furthest away from home and the closest to home.”
