Chashan Folk Culture Village is located in Shantou City, Guangdong Province, and is a cultural landscape integrating traditional architecture, intangible cultural heritage skills, and rural life experiences. The village features ancient houses built on the hillside with distinctive gray-tiled roofs and flying eaves, carrying the spirit of thousands of years of clan culture. Footpaths are paved with stone, bearing the marks of the Chashan merchant guilds. Visitors can handcraft paper lanterns, experiencing the wisdom of “lantern riddles”; in a preserved vegetable workshop, they can experience the ancient method of “three suns and three pickling,” savoring the flavors of Chashan rural nostalgia. During festivals, non-heritage performances such as Cantonese opera and Cantonese folk dances are staged in the village, conveying the fiery passion of the South Guangdong land through the sound of drums and gongs. The village core retains the original appearance of Qing Dynasty folk houses, with intricate wooden carvings and window frames revealing the “four golden elements” of Chashan architecture. The “Chen Family Ancestral Hall” at the entrance of the village witnesses the inheritance of Chashan clan culture. Chen Cihong (a prominent businessman during the late Qing Dynasty) once oversaw the restoration of the hall, and his family’s “overseas trade records” were listed as a national-level intangible cultural heritage. The village also features a “Chashan Gongfu Tea House” and a “Noodle Culture Experience Area,” allowing visitors to touch the daily life of this land through the aroma of tea and smoke. This is not only a living museum of folk culture but also a vivid footnote to the Chashan people’s “dare to struggle and win” spirit.
