Where is Gankeng, a Hakka town in Shenzhen?

Gankeng Hakka Town is located in Gankeng Village, Ji Hua Street, Longgang District, Shenzhen.

The aborigines in Shenzhen are mainly Hakkas. In the local Hakka dialect in Shenzhen, "pit" refers to "streams and ditches in the mountains. Hakkas often use pit and drain together. There is a word called "pit and drain", which is called "pit and drain" because it is full of spring water and sweet streams.

Gankeng Hakka Town is a cultural tourism scenic spot built by OCT Group, which integrates local Hakka folk customs, Hakka village architecture, Hakka folk art, Hakka traditional cuisine and Hakka pastoral scenery.

Gankeng Village (Lao Wei Gankeng), which originated in Ming and Qing Dynasties, is a Hakka village with a long history. Together with Guanlan Printmaking Village, New Residence of Rivers and Lakes, Macun Village and Dawan Stone Residence, it is known as the top ten Hakka ancient villages in Shenzhen.

More than 350 years ago, the ancestors of Kaiji people in Gankeng Village, Meizhou Hakka Xie and Zhang, took a fancy to the natural environment here and settled here. Today, it is not only the experience base for exploring the Hakka culture in Shenzhen, but also the creative center of Hakka pop music in China.

In Gankeng village, there are many ancient buildings of Hakka dwellings, which are surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the houses are connected with lanes, which are scattered like a picture scroll. There are also ancient artillery buildings, Qingxin Lane, Champion House, Phoenix Valley and other customs buildings that are integrated with the landscape, forming a unique Hakka cultural carrier with hundreds of years of Hakka row houses.