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| Date | What we said | What is correct |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Jul 2026 | Several pages stated that five Leizhou traditions — including the Nianli festival and the Lei Zu cult — are on China's national Intangible Cultural Heritage list. | Three are national: the stone dogs (2008), Leizhou song (2008) and Lei opera (2011). The Nianli festival holds Guangdong provincial listing, and the Lei Zu cult's flagship designation is the Leizu Ancestral Hall's status as a national Major Historical & Cultural Site — a built-heritage listing, not ICH. Fixed on /facts, /glossary and the stone-dog page. |
| 18 Jul 2026 | The roots pillar framed the absence of Lui Chew qiaopi (remittance letters) as "none catalogued yet," implying an archival gap. | The absence may be structural: scholarly surveys of southern-Chinese remittance networks do not include Leizhou at all. Reframed as "supported, not proven" — a rarer survival, not a pending catalogue. |
| 18 Jul 2026 | The Bai Ma Lao Shi page rested part of its Fuzhou-Min-origin case on there being no competing identification of the deity. | A competing reading exists: a Sin Chew report describes the Tiang Dua village temple's 白马老师 as a deity peculiar to Leizhou Daoist practice. Both readings now presented; the page's hedge corrected. |
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A card of its own for every page
Every page now makes its own social-sharing image — its title set over the page's own artwork — so a link shared to WhatsApp or Facebook shows what it actually leads to, instead of one identical card for the whole site. Behind the scenes the site also began recording real-world loading speed, so a slow page can be found and fixed, and added an image sitemap to help the watercolours surface in image search.
The story gets its missing pictures
Chapters III–V of the home story receive their scene art — the Jonker Street five-foot-way at golden hour, a folk-opera night, and the pineapple sea of Xuwen — completing the illustrated arc begun with the stone dog and the junk. The three clan associations also gain machine-readable Wikidata records, linked from their pages.
Eleven new deep dives
The Nianli festival · what "Lui Chew" means · Lui Chew vs Hainanese · are the Lui Chew endangered · how to trace your ancestry · the dialect groups of Malaya · Guangzhouwan (the French corner of the homeland, 1899–1945) · the Singapore Lui Chiu Hoe Kuan · Lei Zu / Chen Wenyu · the war years and the Sook Ching. Plus a machine-readable entity registry beneath every page, and this What's-new page itself.
Visiting Leizhou, and Tiang Dua
A practical roots-trip guide to the peninsula, and the addition of Tiang Dua (丁赖新村) — the densest documented Lui Chew settlement outside China — to the Malaysia pillar.
Faster, and properly dressed for sharing
Social-sharing cards, favicons, full Article structured data, and a performance overhaul that took the mobile experience from "slow" to fast on ordinary connections.
The site goes live
First public release at luichiew.com: the story home, eight pillars, the reference library (facts, people, glossary, FAQ, timeline, map), ten deep dives, and the full bilingual EN/简 structure — after an accessibility pass to WCAG 2.1 AA.
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