Door plates are a city’s name cards, just like people’s namecards. In Guangzhou, there are numerous villages located in city centres, co-existing with grand plazas and modern buildings. Each one of these villages has a beautiful name that has existed for hundreds of years, but it’s difficult to trace the names back to their source. Now, with the villages being torn down due to urban planning and demolition, these historical names are rapidly disappearing and are being forgotten. We have therefore collected these door plates in memory of those places and the fascinating stories that used to exist.