Nantou Ancient City Museum

This guide to the Nantou Ancient City Museum in Shenzhen opens with a line spoken seven centuries ago by a captured Song Dynasty chancellor, Wen Tianxiang, who refused to serve the Yuan rulers who had taken him prisoner. It sets that story inside Nantou itself, founded in 331 AD as the oldest administrative seat on this stretch of coast, long before Shenzhen or Hong Kong existed. The sea crossing after Wen's capture in 1278, and the poem he composed along the way, sit at the center of the museum's telling of his story.