Jinjiang Wooden House Village is a natural village under Manjiang Town in Fusong County, Baishan. A 2018 Xinhua report counted nearly 60 houses in the village and described them as built entirely from logs. The village entered the second batch of national traditional villages in 2013 and is also a provincial protected site.
From the journal
How Jinjiang’s Wooden Houses Stay Lived In
Log joinery, wooden chimneys, local repair work, and residents’ changing livelihoods show that a protected village is maintained, not frozen in time.
In the same city · Baishan ↗A village on the Jinjiang River
How one log meets the next
People’s Daily describes resident Li Yuhe demonstrating the notched-log joint called kan yazi during repairs. It separately reports that Zou Jiyou called the hollow wooden chimney a hulan and explained that a naturally hollow trunk—blown down or hollowed by insects—could be used for it. The account also describes Li joining two short logs during repair rather than discarding them. The provincial profile independently confirms the village’s log walls and wooden chimneys.
The houses have needed repair
A 2021 Manjiang Town work report records repairs to fifty wooden houses, along with work on paths, drainage, water supply, firefighting water, and wastewater infrastructure. The list shows that caring for a timber settlement extends beyond the visible walls. A roof and log joint need maintenance, while water, sanitation, and fire protection support the daily use of the village around them. The report captures a particular repair period and makes infrastructure part of the preservation story.
Moves, cooperatives, and new livelihoods
The 2023 feature reports that residents moved to a new village in the late twentieth century and describes livelihoods connected with food businesses and guiding. It profiles Yu Yanxia’s cooperative and Jiang Qiyong, who returned to work as a guide. These accounts put carpentry beside newer forms of work. Repairing houses, organizing a cooperative, and guiding visitors are different activities, but each ties present livelihoods to the way Jinjiang’s built environment is used and maintained.
Care continues beyond repair
A 2025 provincial report says Fusong County completed a tourism-development plan for Jinjiang. That is evidence of planning activity by the date of the report, not a guarantee that every planned project was implemented. Read beside the 2021 repair record and the 2023 accounts of residents’ work, the village emerges through acts of care: joining timber, fixing homes and infrastructure, and finding ways to make a living in a changing settlement.