A Thousand-Year Guest Charm, a Strong Sense of Nostalgia Visiting the World’s Hakka Capital in the Dream of the Original Hometown "Hakka Capital Family · Original Hometown" is China's first large-scale stage play offering an experiential setting based on Hakka walled villages, and it is also the world's first live performance program themed on Hakka culture. The performance follows the Hakka mother as the emotional thread and is structured around the history of Meizhou Hakka culture. Through the illustrious deeds of famous Hakka historical figures such as Huang Zunxian, Zhang Bishi, Lin Fengmian, Li Huitang, Yao Ziqing, and Xie Jinyuan, it showcases the Hakka people's patriotism, homesickness, perseverance, and indomitable spirit. The show vividly conveys the nostalgia and hopes of the Hakka people, highlighting Meizhou's rich educational tradition and the profound heritage of outstanding Hakka culture. Based on the Hakka intangible cultural heritage of walled villages, artisans from Dafeng designed the theater for "Original Hometown" with a distinctive stage structure featuring a "semi-circular enclosing wall and a semicircular pond in front of the gate." Audiences can experience a multisensory visual and auditory feast that combines artistry, impact, and ethnic characteristics from all angles. The story unfolds from "mother" to "home," from "home" to "nation," narrating the tales of Hakka historical figures across multiple levels and fields. The super-large 360° rotating and translating audience seating for 1,500, created by Dafeng Intelligent Manufacturing, has a diameter of 45 meters, weighs over 800 tons, and translates more than 37 meters. The scene moves with the seats, and emotions shift with the scenes. Nine LED lift matrix platforms and eleven sets of flying transparent screens echo each other vertically, emphasizing the plot and enriching the three-dimensional stage scenes. Thirty-three groups of intelligent linked holographic curtains are perfectly coordinated with twenty sets of aerial solo dance arms, creating a beautifully immersive space where VR actors interact with real performers. Sixteen sets of sliding illusion curtain screens and eleven …
A charm of a thousand-year-old guest
A touch of deep homesickness
Traveling the world, the capital of travelers
Seeking the homeland in dreams
"Hakka City Families · Homeland" is China's first large-scale stage play with walled house scenario experiences, and also the world's first live performance program themed around Hakka culture. The performance centers on the emotional thread of Hakka mothers, follows the main thread of Meizhou Hakka cultural history, and through the glorious deeds of famous figures such as Huang Zunxian, Zhang Bishi, Lin Fengmian, Li Huitang, Yao Ziqing, and Xie Jinyuan, it showcases the Hakka people's patriotism, homesickness, resilience, and tenacious struggle. It authentically presents the homesickness and hopes of the Hakka people, highlighting Meizhou's outstanding traditional culture of valuing culture and education.
Based on the architectural structure of the Hakka intangible cultural heritage—the walled house—the Dafeng craftsmen created the unique main stage structure for the "Yuanxiang" theater: "semicircular walls, half-moon pond in front." They offer a comprehensive and multi-angle audiovisual feast that blends artistry, impact, and ethnicity, performing stories of famous Hakka historical figures from multiple levels and fields, from "mother" to "home," from "home" to "country."
Dafeng Intelligent Manufacturing features a massive 360° rotating and panning dynamic seating with 1,500 audience seats, a diameter of 45 meters, a self-weight of over 800 tons, and a sliding distance of over 37 meters. The performance moves with the seats and the atmosphere with the scene.
Nine LED lifting matrix platforms and eleven sets of flying transparent screens echo each other vertically, highlighting the story and enriching the three-dimensional stage scenes.
Thirty-three intelligent linked holographic curtains and 20 sets of aerial solo spinning arms perfectly connect, creating a beautiful three-dimensional space where VR actors interact with real performers.
Sixteen sets of shifting phantom gauze screens and eleven eleven elevated aerial beam bridges dynamically present grand scenes of bloody battles to defend the homeland.
The 800-square-meter LED screen doors and long-distance sports spectator seats allow visitors to experience a time-space tunnel and discover a unique wonder.
Eleven groups of aquatic performance inkstones and a 200-square-meter flip stage, with clever indoor and outdoor dry-wet scenes, showcase the Hakka people's dream of venturing across the world and pursuing a better life.
Dafeng deeply integrates local culture and technology, achieving creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese culture, helping to build a new benchmark for cultural tourism in South China, polishing the new calling card of the world's Hakka capital and cultural Meizhou, and making "Hometown" a spiritual haven for Hakka people worldwide!