GLOBALink | Guardians of heritage: preserving Xidi and Hongcun

HEFEI, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Listed as World Cultural Heritage Sites, Xidi and Hongcun are two renowned villages in east China's Anhui Province.

With exquisite homes, ancestral halls and memorial archways, Hui-style buildings of Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911) are widely found here.

To protect these two villages, people from various walks of life contribute in their own ways, such as fire captain Shu Jianjun and ancestral hall conservator Hu Xiaowen who are dedicated to preserving and passing on those cultural heritages.