It adopts a "one exhibit, one family" narrative and systematically reveals the lives and contributions of eight foreign families.

Within the 300-square-meter space, over 200 historical photos form a wall of time, while digital screens breathe motion back into black-and-white footage.

"Why did these families all choose Kuliang? The answer is written in Kuliang's wind," Jiang reveals.

In summer, the temperature up here is about 5 to 10 C lower than in downtown Fuzhou, he says.

Nestled at an average elevation of 750 meters, this mountain ridge, with its unique, transverse range topography, became the "natural air conditioner" discovered by Westerners in the late 19th century.

After Fuzhou opened as a treaty port in the 1840s, local missionaries, doctors, teachers, and consular officials followed the cool breeze, building villas and forming a distinctive international community.

Yet this new, cross-cultural coexistence was navigated with a notable spirit of mutual accommodation.