Seven Star Family Residence (七星世居) is hidden among dilapidated buildings which will be soon torn down for the urban redevelopment program. Apartments built by the locals for rent will be cleared out. Striking red banners hung on the empty buildings urge the remaining house owners to sign the housing demolition contract immediately. A poster pasted on the wall states that the new regulation has been approved by the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress. There the district government is entitled to requisition houses that do not sign the contract, on the condition that more than 95% of house owners sign the contract.
Thereafter, the region will be transformed into a commercial neighborhood. However, Seven Star Family Residence will be preserved to respect its history (Chen, 2016). Obviously, the contract rate has not yet reached 95%, still, a few people live around.
The residence was announced as an unmovable cultural relic of Longgang District in 2012. It was established around 1800. The exact year is uncertain on the grounds that, unlike other residences, there is no year carved with the name of the Seven Star Family Residence on the top of the entrance.
The residence was created by Wu Rongguo (巫榮國), son of Wu Yanyi (巫廷異). Rongguo and his brother Wu Xinguo (巫新國)Xinguo moved from the current Longxi Sub-district to Zhutoubei Village (竹頭背村). Xingguo built another residence just next to Ronguo’s Seven Star Family Residence. I do not know the official name of Xinguo’s family residence, because there is only the name of the gate “Liang Xun Men”(涼勳門). A striking feature of both gates is that they are concave to the wall, rather than flat.
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