Ershui Bizitou Zheng Family Residence

A well-preserved traditional sanheyuan complex in Ershui, Changhua, built in 1918 by Zheng Tairan (鄭泰然), a seventeenth-generation descendant of the Zheng family of Bizitou (鼻仔頭), who struck out from the larger ancestral compound next door when space there ran short. Constructed of red brick and timber under the name Rongyang Hall (榮陽堂), the house survives largely intact save for its gate tower and worship pavilion, which were brought down by an earthquake in the 1930s; the main-door couplet was deliberately copied verbatim from that of the ancestral hall to advertise lineage continuity. Registered as a Changhua county historic building in 2009, the compound remains privately occupied today by a nineteenth-generation descendant of the family, though the outer courtyard can be visited by appointment.