Farmland area of Liudui Hakka Cultural Park
There is also a rice-husking showroom, which contains a husking machine from a 100-yearold mill that was donated to the park. It’s a rare opportunity to see such an enormous machine – several floors tall – in its entirety, as usually it would be surrounded by other equipment and paraphernalia. On the park’s grounds you’ll also spot a unique Earth God temple that resembles a local gravesite – characteristic of the Liudui Hakka specifically. It’s not exactly clear where the practice of building this type of temple originated. According to park staff, the Hakka originally imagined their deities in abstract forms, and the worship of figures was a later practice that they picked up from their Hoklo neighbors. In the old days, temples were built at the entranceways to Hakka villages, and made to look like gravesites. This was meant to trick would-be invaders into thinking that beyond this point was a cemetery, not houses. Although the park is meant to be a place to learn about Hakka culture, it’s also a great place for a leisurely afternoon walkabout. One can walk for hours through the specially created habitats and rest on benches by the many tiny lakes, all the while imagining the fertile environment that made this area so attractive to the Hakka when they first settled here.
Tobacco-drying house Liudui Hakka Cultural Park ( 六堆客家文化園區 ) No. 588, Xinyi Rd., Jianxing Village, Neipu Township, Pingtung County ( 屏東縣內埔鄉建興村信義路 588 號 ) (08) 723-0100
English and Chinese leicha 擂茶 Liudui 六堆 Zhu Yi-gui 朱一貴
English and Chinese leicha 擂茶 Liudui 六堆 Zhu Yi-gui 朱一貴