Hemei Daxiadian Huang Family Residence

Date Captured

December 31st, 2014 at 08:30 UTC

Camera

NIKON D3100

Lens

AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II

Aperture

ƒ / 7.1

Shutter Speed

1/200 sec

Focal Length

18.0 mm

ISO

200

Exposure Value

13.3 EV

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A brick and timber courtyard house completed around 1927, standing beside De’an Temple (德安宮) in Daxiadian (大霞佃) in Hemei, Changhua. It follows a single hall plan with one flanking wing, fronted by a worship pavilion (拜亭) carried on four heavy columns, a feature common to traditional residences on the Changhua Plains. The brick gatehouse enclosing the inner courtyard bears the ancestral name Jiangxia Yanpai (江夏衍派). A six-column baroque gateway with an ornamental gable and round windows once screened the outer courtyard from the road, but it collapsed around 2018, apparently in a typhoon, leaving only a fragment of wall.