Huihe Stone Culture Park: Between Stone Shadows and Tea Fragrance, a Heritage Music Festival!

At Xiamen Huihe Stone Culture Park, embark on a super fun intangible cultural heritage journey that guarantees you'll encounter the unique charm of heritage amid stones and the aroma of tea! Chatting with Millennia-old Stone Carvings As soon as you enter the park, it feels like stepping into a time machine, instantly traveling back thousands of years! Every stone carving in the Chinese Stone Culture Corridor and the Celebrity Stone Carving Art Gallery is like an old friend that can talk, chattering away and telling me their stories. What amazed me the most was the southern-style stone carving—so exquisite and delicate! Completely different from the bold and unrestrained northern style, these stone carvings seem enchanted; every line is so clear you can see it distinctly, as if they might come to life any second. The most magical is the shadow carving technique: the intangible cultural heritage inheritor taps a steel needle on the stone slab with a "ding ding dang dang" sound, and between the needle’s rise and fall, a "Golden Snake Bringing Blessings" pattern slowly emerges. It’s like "embroidery" on stone, much more delicate than traditional stone carving, and it left me wide-eyed! Stone Whisper and Tea Fragrance Puppet Show, Endless Joy In the park’s elegant space, I experienced a fantastic intangible cultural heritage feast! The crisp and pleasant sound of stone whispering filled my ears—that’s the rhythmic "ding ding dang dang" made by craftsmen carving, like a cheerful song. Before my eyes was a graceful Minnan tea ceremony performance; the heritage tea party combining Lotus Peak Tea and Huihe shadow carving perfectly blended the fragrance of tea with the charm of stone, making me feel like I was in a fairyland! Even more exciting was the puppet show! The puppets in the performers’ hands were so vivid, like real little spirits. After the show, I was lucky to interact with the performers and operate the string puppets myself. Although I was clumsy and the puppets didn’t obey at all, the excitement is unforgettable—I felt like a little puppet artist! Rubbing Blessings and Welcoming Good Fortune, “Packing” Blessings to Take Home The DYA activity was so much fun! In a red brick mansion full of Minnan style, I experienced the intangible cultural heritage twelve zodiac blessing rubbing. I chose my own zodiac sign and personally made a unique rubbing as a souvenir. Watching the pattern slowly appear was like magic—I "packed" the blessings to take home and felt super lucky! Huihe Stone Culture Park is truly a place full of surprises! Here, I not only saw the beauty of intangible cultural heritage but also personally felt its joy. If you love intangible cultural heritage too, come quickly to Huihe Stone Culture Park and join me in starting a joyful heritage journey amid stone shadows and tea fragrance!