When you visit Kinmen, everywhere you can see old villages with their houses neatly lined up on a north-south axis. Civilian residences preserving traditional Fujianese architecture form tight little knots. Red tiles, stone walls, and elegant "swallow-tail" roof ridges bounce sunlight off the fresh green fields, creating a leisurely ambience of small-island warmth and security.
走訪金門島，到處可見古聚落縱橫整齊地以南北向排列著，保存閩南式建築風味的民居密集成群，紅瓦、石牆、俊翹的燕尾屋脊與鮮綠的田疇相互輝映，流露出一種小島隨地而安的閒情。