>>Ancient House

The methods and extend of an ancient house tells a lot about the developed of the region. According to our survey, most of the ancient houses were built along the river, which proves how important Plum Tree Creek was to the residents.

1.Chang’s house at Xiao Ping Ding

According to the chef of the village, Chang’s house has built 200 years ago. It’s the oldest house at Xiao Ping Ding now. There wasn’t any high ways when they built the house. It took a lot of money to pick up red bricks from Damsui. This shows that Changs had deep pocket and big influence at that time.

2. Huang’s house at Shu Mei Keng

The house is over 100 years old. Built as quadrangle house with Andesite, which is rare in Zhuwei. It’s the oldest stone construction at Shu Mei Keng for now. Huangs named the house as Zhi-Yun.

3.Kao’s house at Shu Mei Keng

The house was built by Kao’s posterity eighty years ago during Japanese colonial period. It was built as train structure mainly with bricks. It is conserved very well till now.

4. Kao’s house in the tiles

This is the oldest mansion at Zhuwei. It’s a central building with two wings attached perpendicular to either side. The external wall were build as brick baffle when inner wall by cob. This kind of building methods was very old and the house is more than 200 years old. So after years without maintenance, it’s out of repair.

5. Zheng’s house at the estuary

Distance to the estuary around 300 meters. Zheng’s house is a brick-built San-He-Yuan named He-Pu. It’s over 100 years old. The house used to lend out for drama shooting which leads to loss of some antique.

6.Tsai’s house at Quadrangular-Zhuwei

Quadrangular-Zhuwei was the population center of Zhuwei in the past. Zhu is the sound of Bamboo in Chinese. Wei means surround. People planted bamboos around their house. This is the origin of the name. The oldest house here belongs to Tsais. Named Ji-Yang. Remaining only a wall while their another house named Xin Yuan Jv is preserving better. Xin Yuan Jv is surrounded by building now. It’s a strong comparison. You can observe the development of Zhuwei easily by this.