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Xincun Danjia Fishing Village

A traditional village across Haiying, Haiyan and Haiou in Xincun Town, where homes and fish cages float together in Lingshui’s lagoon.

The People’s Daily feature identifies the village as three water-based settlements—Haiying, Haiyan and Haiou—and records their 2019 entry on China’s fifth traditional-village list. A 2023 Hainan Daily report describes boat homes that can be reached from shore only by boat, and an interior arranged across levels: family room above, a tea platform facing the cages below, and a compact kitchen. Residents’ memories and routines show how the raft homes serve as both family spaces and working bases on the water.

A dense waterside settlement and rows of fish-raft structures at Xincun Harbour, seen from a hillside.
Xincun Harbour and its waterside settlement, photographed in 2014; the scene is a setting view, not a portrait of the article’s households.

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A dense waterside settlement and rows of fish-raft structures at Xincun Harbour, seen from a hillside.

The Tea Table Facing the Fish Cages

Inside Xincun’s floating homes, a tea table faces the fish cages; families tend 42 nets, return to old boat homes and teach songs once carried by water work.

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  1. Xincun Harbour and its waterside settlement, photographed in 2014; the scene is a setting view, not a portrait of the article’s households.song songroov · CC BY 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Retained source: Wikimedia standard 1280-pixel thumbnail; upstream full-size original was not downloaded. WebP copies were scaled without enlargement.