Giant’s Hand

Giant’s Hand (巨人之手) is a partly buried statue of a giant in the mountains of Xueshankeng (雪山坑) in Heping District, Taichung, standing roughly nine meters tall with only its head, one arm, a hand, and part of a leg protruding from the earth. It is perhaps the last surviving installation on the grounds of the former Xueshan Garden Farm (雪山花園農場), which closed and lay abandoned for some two decades before the figure was rediscovered. Local accounts hold that it commemorates a construction worker who fell to his death in the valley while the farm was being built, on land said to be Indigenous ancestral ground. Renewed attention turned the site into a social media hotspot, prompting the city government to clear the overgrown approach.