The Nyonya Museum located in Penang, Malaysia, also known as the Overseas Chinese Museum or the Penang Coconut Overseas Chinese Mansion, was a proud private mansion over a century ago. The late Chinese Zheng Jinggui ventured into Southeast Asia during his lifetime, struggled for many years, and eventually became a tycoon in the tin mining industry. He built this named institution in the late 19th century and became wealthyThe luxurious mansion of Haiji Inn. After Zheng Jinggui's death, the Haiji stack remained vacant for several years until a new owner acquired it from his descendants.

Nowadays, this place has become a museum with a hundred years of historyIn 2011, it was named one of the top ten luxury homes in the world by Lonely Planet. The entire courtyard is a fusion of Chinese and Western elements, with carved beams and embroidered households, truly giving people a sense of "worldly wealth and prosperity". Strolling through it, the various furniture, vessels, decorations, and more inside are breathtaking, allowing one to understand the lifelong prosperity of Baba Nyingjo culture, as if encountering an old dream from Southeast Asia.

When it comes to the culture of Niangjiao, tracing its origins, it is closely related to Zheng Chenggong's voyages to the West. Since then, from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the Republic of China period, a large number of Chinese people in Fuzhou and Guangzhou chose to seek a living in Nanyang, forming a new era in modern Chinese historyA famous population migration outside of "crossing the Kanto and heading west" - "going to Nanyang". When early Chinese arrived in Southeast Asia, most of them were impoverished, but their descendants embarked on the path of business due to the struggles of their ancestors. Chinese intermarried with local Malay women, and their descendants, boys were called Baba and girls were called Nyonya. At the same time, the integration of traditional Chinese culture and Malay culture has given rise to a new cultural system, which is the Nyonya culture.

The current Nianga Museum was renovated and converted into a museum before it was presented to the world and received visitors. The building basically retains its old form and style, and is quietly located in an ordinary street in Penang. Its fruity green appearance is full of Nanyang style, but it is not eye-catching. It wasn't until the moment I stepped into the house that I realized it was suddenly open, like a treasure. Every step was full of surprises, and the strange treasures were overwhelming.

The decoration inside the house is also extremely luxurious, with not only Chinese and Malay culture, but also the shadow of Western culture. There are both Chinese style carved lacquer screens and calligraphy plaques, as well as Nanyang style retro tiles and staircase iron flowers, as well as Western style crystal glass cups and princess beds, and so on.

These seemingly unrelated styles can be seen everywhere in the Nianga Museum, blending Chinese and Western cultures into one. The profound and warm Chinese culture, the romantic atmosphere of England and France, the passionate and unrestrained Southeast Asia, and the bold use of colors and decorations in the golden orange brown flow with olive green and coral red, probably only in the homes of overseas Chinese can they appear so logical.