A Field Archive of Southern AnhuiHeritage & Historic Architecture
What We Ask
Three questions, three sectionsCraft
How are these crafts made? What are the materials, tools, processes and embodied skills?
Enter Heritage Crafts →Space
What building order governs houses, halls and workshops? How are skywells, routes and light arranged?
Enter Architecture & Space →System · Core Question
Who is designated an inheritor? Who actually labours — and who receives the income, honour and security?
Finding: the workforce is ageing and poorly paid; the inheritor system covers only a few, leaving frontline workers without subsidies, honour or security.
From Workshop to Old House: A Field Map of Southern Anhui
Click a marker to see the place — workshops, old houses and interview sites. New places added in the admin panel appear here automatically.
Updates & Impact
Continuously updated · revisited every half yearNewly Added: Transcript of an Interview with an ICH Expert
Recordings proofread, fully transcribed and translated into English; added to the oral history library.
Newly Added: Interview Transcript with the ICH Management Department
Surveying and Photographing the Ancient Dwellings in Zhaji Village
Organize the photos taken of the ancient dwellings, along with the research notes.