About this site

Scope

Three entity types: heritage items, cultural spaces and articles. Heritage items are grouped into seven categories by their kind, and each states its category, level, listing batch and guardian unit; cultural spaces cover only the villages, mountains and waterways that heritage attaches to, together with the old academies and Confucian schools; articles are written here. Only published entries appear, and nothing without a traceable source is published.

Sources

Sources are ranked: gazetteers and inscriptions; government pages and heritage lists; archaeological reports and academic papers; and press reports and site visits. Levels and batches follow the official documents only: the district fourth batch is the January 2024 public-notice draft, and entries say so rather than calling it issued. Where sources disagree they are set side by side with each attributed, and no side is chosen; tradition and record are kept in separate sections, and traditions keep their original wording. Source records are catalogued in the language of the original: the publisher is given in English as well, while the rights note and the citation locator stay in the original language, so that a reader can find the passage in the source itself.

Validation

Every entry passes the content repository's validation script before it is stored: required fields, controlled vocabularies, resolvable sources and relations, Chinese-English pairing and consistent proper names. A heritage item must state its category, level, batch and guardian unit, and a stated level must come with its batch; a cultural space that states a protection level must state its listing; and any quotation from an old gazetteer must come from a public-domain source.

Licence

The text of the entries is licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse and adaptation, including commercial use, require attribution only. The rights status of each source in the source layer is given in its own rights field and is not transferred by this licence.

Languages and themes

Chinese is served from the root and English from /en/, with page paths matching one to one, so switching language keeps you on the same page. The theme follows your system setting by default and can be switched by hand; the choice is stored in your browser and does not flash on reload.

Corrections

If you find a factual error, a dead link or an inconsistent rendering of a proper name, open an issue in the network's repository, giving the entry ID and your evidence. Once checked, the entry is corrected and its updated field changed to that day.

How it is built

The site is static. Markdown from the content repository is rendered at build time; there is no database and no client-side framework. The filters, the search and the list paging all run on the generated pages.