To convey the traditional culture and local stories of Kinmen and enhance partnership with the local folks, The Kinmen National Park Headquarters, National Park Service (the Headquarters), Ministry of the Interior has specially invited the Kinmen local theater troupe "Kinmen Horseshoe Crab Troupe" to perform "Luofan Qing" (Feelings of migration to Southeast Asia) on stage at Shuitou Settlement, Shanhou Settlement, Beishan Settlement, Qiongmen Settlement Lin Village and Shanglin Activity Center. Local folks are welcome to invite relatives and friends to watch it together.
Kinmen National Park was established in 1984. It is the first national park to preserve historical battle sites while also protecting ecology and humanities. Due to special temporal and spatial factors, Kinmen has preserved many complete ancient settlement buildings. Among them, the rich southern Fujian culture and overseas compatriot hometown culture are reflected in the wonderful traditional architecture and settlement characteristics.
"Luofan" (Migration to Southeast Asia) is a page in the vicissitudes of Kinmen's history. People, mostly men, who could not make a living in Kinmen had no choice but to leave their hometown and go to the unknown south to look for opportunities. Their hard work was only for the high hopes of their Kinmen family. Continuing this deep emotion, the story content carefully created by the Kinmen Horseshoe Theater Company combines the rich cultural elements of southern Fujian and overseas compatriot hometown culture with innovative vocabulary and techniques to present a stage play "Feeling of Migration to Southeast Asia" unique to Kinmen. Through dramatic performances, it gives a new interpretation of the historical stories of the ancestors’ hardship and sadness moving overseas, and hard work and perseverance in starting a business, allowing more people to see the history of Kinmen going abroad, and allowing the next generation to experience Kinmen’s history of migration to Southeast Asia and the hard work spirit past generations; and continue the significance of inheritance to reconnect the feelings of overseas compatriots with Kinmen origins with their hometown and make them cherish everything they have now even more.
Local folks are welcome to join us to watch, and follow us into the time when Kinmen men migrated to Southeast Asia, and experience this heartwarming, touching, and tearful story presented by a local theater troupe!