Hakka hatShenzhen Museum
The custom of Hakka people wearing summer hats has been recorded in Su Dongpo's "Su Gongli" since the Northern Song Dynasty, and it has been around for nearly a thousand years. The production of Gankeng hats has a history of two hundred years since the Qing Dynasty.
Hat sewingShenzhen Museum
Shenzhen's Hakka summer hats are full of local charm and were invented by the local Hakka immigrants. These hats have a certain value when it comes to studying how Hakka women abandoned the tradition of not showing their faces.
Gankeng village and the "single bamboo"
Gankeng is located in a small mountain village ten kilometers north of Buji Street, Longgang District, Shenzhen. There is Liangmao Mountain in the village. There are hundreds of acres of "single bamboo" planted in this mountain, and this bamboo is very special.
Flower patternShenzhen Museum
The ancestral skill of Gankeng Village is that the master uses his teeth to "tear the stalks", and the bamboo stalks can be torn as thin as they need to be "bitten with the teeth".
Hakka summer hat from GankengShenzhen Museum
Patterns are changeable. The pattern and weave of the Gankeng summer hat, the way the craft is passed down, and the customs that surround the hats, such as wearing a trim on the hat, all have cultural value.
Summer hat from Dapeng villageShenzhen Museum
Gankeng summer hat has been passed down from Zhang Jinchao to the 6th generation today. Gankeng Village is named Summer Hat Village after the handicraft.
