Su Qinghe, a history graduate, was unemployed immediately after graduation. She repeatedly encountered obstacles in finding a job and fell into a trough. She unexpectedly received the inheritance from her late grandmother - a museum of old Jiangnan houses that had been abandoned for many years.
She was bound to the intangible cultural heritage guardian system and started the road of preserving her art as the heir of the villa.
System tasks revolve around intangible inheritance, museum construction and craftsman adaptation, and rewards include facility extraction, craftsmen, funds and identity protection.
Strictly abiding by the iron rule of keeping the identity of the craftsmen secret, the museum has successively gathered craftsmen from the eight major Jiangnan and South African heritages in puppetry, Suzhou embroidery, beading, wood carving, clay sculpture, bamboo weaving, Kunqu opera, and Ming-style furniture. While assisting the old craftsmen to adapt to modern society, they gradually restored the museum and built the dilapidated old house into an intangible cultural heritage and tourism complex that integrates cultural and creative exhibitions and sales, exhibition halls, experiences, performances, catering, and accommodation.
Su Qinghe used historical knowledge to empower traditional crafts, promote intangible cultural heritage innovation and break through the circle, grow from an unemployed graduate to a qualified guardian of intangible cultural heritage, and revitalize ancient skills in the contemporary era.
Purpose: To preserve the Jiangnan cultural heritage and build a new generation of contemporary culture