It was a working rice plantation up to about 1914.

The material and ethical relics revealed large-scale rice plantation and other agricultural activities, hurdle style architecture, paddling and boating and respecting birds and sun.

Beneath limestone mountains spiralled with bamboo forests and rice plantations, villagers sell sesame and chillies, air-dried flying squirrel and cassava.

But six families with large rice plantations refused to go, even though the area was already marked out as indigenous land in 1993 when they moved in.

The coastal rice plantations never recovered from the war.