Yiyuan ancient house

Yiyuan ancient house

Located in Yiyuan lane, maxing village, Xiushui Township, it is also known as chensiyu ancient house or maming mountain ancient house. It is the largest ancient house in Zhanghua county. It was built in the 26th year of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 100 years. The ancient house covers an area of nearly 10000 square meters, second only to Banqiao forest house and Wufeng forest house.

According to records, Chen sent people to the mainland to purchase Fujian Wuyishan fir as building materials, and hired mainland designers, architects and famous craftsmen to design and build in Taiwan. Therefore, the structure of the ancient houses is all traditional buildings in the mainland, known as "traditional buildings of the Chinese nation" and "Masterpieces of Tangshan craftsmen". The ancient house is built with red brick walls, turquoise porcelain windows and gray stone. Although it has been built for a hundred years, its magnificent scene and the classical beauty of Chinese traditional manor can still be seen from its huge scale. The gatehouse is the famous "Jishan building". On the top floor, there is an empty room with swallow tail eaves. The most wonderful part of the whole building is composed of tubular tiles and curtain tiles, flowers and plants, lenses, carved beams and painted columns. There are three rooms on the ground floor, with access road in the middle. The plaque of "Jishan building" is hung on the front. Jishan building has a deep garden with banyan trees and elegant environment. There are pavilions in front of the hall of xicuo residence. The layout is appropriate, simple and pleasing to the eye. The outer dragon is the eaves of high hall and horseback type, and the design on the wall is exquisite. The whole ancient house is of unique ingenuity, which shows the intelligence and creative spirit of the working people in our country.

Address: No.4 Xiushui Township, Yiyuan lane, 504 Taiwan, Zhanghua County

Longitude: 120.495658

Latitude: 24.06405