Dawan Village: tools, tea and the mountain household

Dawan Village sits in Huashi Township, Jinzhai County, in the Dabie Mountains. The Lu’an Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau lists Jiguanzhai, a former provincial working committee site, old trees, a tea experience base, a farming-customs exhibition hall and a river activity among the scenic area’s features. Together they show a mountain settlement where natural landscapes, agriculture, household life and recent history stand side by side.

Inside the farming-customs exhibition hall, the bureau says, visitors encounter agricultural tools and household objects, clothing and shoes, food and tea culture, hearths and lamps, building components, transport equipment, and tools for processing and measuring grain. These are the material systems of a household: how food is grown, measured, cooked, stored and moved. The source says the hall uses reconstructed scenes and display cases. It does not identify every object as originating in one particular house, so the story keeps the display and the village's historic objects distinct.

The tourism bureau summarizes Dawan's development model with a phrase: tea is grown on the mountain and guests are welcomed at home. This turns the household into part of the local economy without making home life a staged abstraction. Tea cultivation remains tied to the slope; hospitality happens in the village. The site also combines “red” and “green” resources—its documented historic places and its natural setting—rather than treating the two as unrelated attractions.

The exhibition hall offers an organized way to see ordinary objects that may otherwise appear scattered: a grain measure, a cooking vessel, a piece of clothing, a tool for field work. Reconstructed scenes help show how objects relate, though they cannot substitute for documentation about a particular family or date. Dawan's value here is the careful juxtaposition of household material with a living village and tea-growing landscape. The result is a grounded account of the Dabie region through work and domestic tools, not only a panorama of mountains.