Wu Sha Residence

The ancestral compound of Wu Sha, also known as the Kailan Wu Family Hall (開蘭吳宅公廳), in rural Jiaoxi, Yilan, where his descendants settled after his death. The original sanheyuan was protected by a bamboo enclosure typical of Qing dynasty era frontier homesteads; the main hall and ancestral hall were burned by Japanese troops during a search of the compound in the colonial period, leaving only the side wings. The descendants rebuilt the ancestral hall to the right of the original footprint around 1919, and that successor structure still stands today, restored in 2001 and registered as a historic building in 2004. The main hall holds a portrait of Wu Sha flanked by the couplet “unparalleled as a pioneer, truly the first man to open Yilan” (真成拓土無雙士，正是開蘭第一人). The site is open to visitors and managed by the descendants’ ancestral trust.