Xunpu: Flowers, Work and the Women Who Wear Them
Look beyond the portrait session to the hairdressing skills, oyster livelihoods and everyday identities behind Xunpu’s floral headwear.
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Quanzhou String Puppetry: The Art above the Strings
Look beyond the miniature character to the timing, music and trained hands that animate Quanzhou’s string-puppet theatre.
Cao’an Temple: Recognizing Mani in the Stone
A radiating halo, dated inscriptions and an inscribed bowl bring a small temple near Quanzhou into the history of Manichaeism.
Anxi Tieguanyin: From the Cup Back to the Hills
Tea gardens, drainage, leaf handling and repeated tasting reveal why Anxi Tieguanyin is a landscape and a craft as well as a drink.
Dehua White Porcelain: Looking Closely at the Source
From a kiln’s chambers to a porcelain figure’s fingertips, Dehua reveals the material and human choices behind blanc de Chine.
Anping Bridge: A Long Crossing between Trading Towns
Across Anping Bridge, granite slabs, shelter pavilions and repair inscriptions recover the human scale of an old coastal trade route.
Luoyang Bridge: Building with the Tide
Granite beams, pointed piers and an oyster-strengthened foundation explain how Quanzhou’s Luoyang Bridge answered an estuary crossing.
Quanzhou Maritime Museum: Stones, Ships and Human Traces
Separate an excavated ship from a reconstruction, and a carved stone from its original building, to see how Quanzhou’s maritime past is assembled.
Qingyuan Mountain: Laozi between Rock and City
At Quanzhou’s northern mountain edge, a monumental seated Laozi turns a natural boulder into a meeting of sculpture, landscape and Daoist thought.
Tianhou Temple: Quanzhou’s Sea Goddess and the City
A stage, courtyards and halls reveal how Mazu worship became part of Quanzhou’s maritime and civic life.
Qingjing Mosque: Reading the Stone and the Open Sky
Quanzhou’s historic mosque reveals its long life through a monumental portal, the remains of a prayer hall and inscriptions recording repair.
Kaiyuan Temple: Beyond Quanzhou’s Twin Pagodas
Move from the twin stone pagodas to reused Hindu carvings and the working spaces of Quanzhou’s great Buddhist temple.