Enshi, a Tujia people and Miao people’s autonomous prefecture located in  southwest Hubei Province, overlapping with the mysterious 30-degree north latitude golden section, and the altitude ranging from 400 and 1700 meters.

According to legend, the Tujia people are the descendants of the Bazi  people in ancient China, 3000 years ago. During the Warring States period, they were first ruled by Chu( a state) and became Chu people. After Chu was defeated and conquered by Qin (another state), some Chu people escaped into the mountains to avoid Qin Dynasty.  Therefore, the famous ancient Chinese literature “Peach Blossom Spring Story” was born, describing the Wuling utopia and the scenery of peach blossom spring that stretches for hundreds of square kilometres. Afterwards, it evolved into the writer Shen Congwen’s literature of  beautiful mountains, beautiful waters, and stilted buildings  as well as the simple and intelligent Tujia people.

In the 1980s, population migration was possible in China , then farmers in the mountains began to leave their homes to work in cities. Young and middle-aged people in rural areas earned a higher income than they used to work in agriculture at the expense of leaving their homes all the year round, but this caused a series of problems in their hometowns. We and the local government proposed the concept of “Regeneration” of the villages. We planned and designed the Chinese Tujia Pan-Museum, aiming to integrate 9 Tujia villages along the Longtan River, making the farming, life and agricultural landscape of Tujia farmers become a living display of the museum. The content integrates tourism and organic sightseeing agriculture, attracting villagers who go out to work back to the villages to participate in the construction of new rural areas. While developing tourism, it saves the decline of local agriculture and traditional culture, and rebuilds a benign rural society and natural ecology. Currently completed projects include the Visitor Centre, Sky-touch Tower and Literati Bridge. As soon as these new buildings are completed, they immediately become vibrant public spaces in the countryside, attracting a large number of villagers and tourists.