The 300-year-old monument in Futian District has been demolished due to a combination of official disregard for spiritual traditions and land speculation.
In an unprecedented public protest, some 4,000 villagers confronted the police on April 24 in the Shuiwei and Huanggang villages in Futian District, part of metropolitan Shenzhen, protesting the destruction of an ancestral hall. Some came with chairs and blocked the entrance of the C2 Shenzhen subway station, which is near where the ancestral hall once stood. They hold signs such as “Resolutely oppose the demolition of the ancestral hall, defend the authentic ancestral hall, and never give up. The forced demolition of the ancestral hall goes against the Zhuang family and is not tolerated by Heaven.”
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