Liudui Hakka Cultural Park Introduction
Liudui Hakka Cultural Park is located in Neipu Township, Pingtung County, covering an area of approximately 20 hectares. It features nine thematic areas, including a performance hall, multimedia exhibition hall, the Kaiji Boge, a structure resembling an umbrella rack, a rice hulling machine, a wooden walkway, a tobacco barn, an agricultural area, and a water head plaza. The park primarily showcases the lifestyle of the Hakka community through the concept of a living museum. The performance hall is the best performing arts space in Pingtung County and has hosted over a hundred performances, including music, dance, and drama. In the future, the performance hall will continue to play the role of a promoter of arts and culture, assisting in the development of Liudui Hakka arts and culture, allowing the Liudui Hakka culture to thrive and spread widely. The multimedia exhibition hall is a two-story building; the first floor features the Hakka Hall and a display cabinet for special products, serving as a venue to introduce the park environment and showcase unique handcrafted items from Liudui. The second floor has a 120 ping (approximately 397 square meters) exhibition space that changes its themes regularly, making it the best place to learn about Hakka culture. Kaiji Boge is a title for the God of Wealth. In the early days, the ancestors of Liudui would mark the boundaries of their cultivated areas with stones collected from the surroundings and would burn incense to show their reverence; therefore, a Kaiji Boge was placed in the cultural park as a symbol of the Hakka culture taking root here and to bless the development of the park. The umbrella rack structure resembles both an umbrella frame and a straw hat, but it actually features Hakka-style Mei Nuo paper umbrellas. The opened paper umbrellas symbolize providing shade for Ahou City, with the area underneath designed for Hakka industries and cultural clusters. In addition, solar panels are installed on the umbrella rack to provide some electricity for the area, achieving energy conservation and carbon reduction. Walking along the winding wooden walkway, which seems to have no end, one can gaze upon the tranquility of Dawu Mountain, admire the beautiful scene of irises and lotus flowers in the agricultural landscape pool, quietly observe the reflections of buildings and trees in the pool, and approach the tobacco barn to carefully look around this unique industrial landscape. Whenever you take the time to explore every corner of Liudui Hakka Cultural Park, you will discover the roots of Hakka culture.
