Longgang Museum of Hakka Culture

This guide to the Longgang Museum of Hakka Culture follows Luo Ruifeng, a Hakka migrant who arrived here in 1758 with almost nothing and built a trading empire within a generation. It traces why he set out to spend three generations and roughly fifty years raising a walled compound strong enough to shelter his entire clan, finished in 1817, and points out details worth studying up close, like windows paneled not with glass but with thinned oyster shells. Ten generations of the Luo family called these walls home.