Lukang Jinyin Hall

Built in 1935 by the Huang (黃) family, a Lukang merchant house grown wealthy from rice milling and landholding during the Japanese colonial era boom in Ponlai rice. Brothers Huang Qiu (黃秋) and Huang Junjie (黃俊傑) commissioned the eclectic Han, Japanese, and Western style mansion to honour their mother, and it served as a social salon for the town’s officials and gentry. Its name derives from a set of reversible partition screens carved by master woodworker Li Songlin (李松林), gilded gold on one face for celebrations and silvered on the reverse for mourning.

The family later declined after a fraudulent-loan affair involving Huang Junjie’s son Huang Xikun (黃錫棔), and the hall fell into neglect. Its carved screens were twice raided by thieves, with ten of the original twenty-eight panels lost. After a nearby Huang residence was demolished in 2015, residents formed the Baolu Movement Association (保鹿運動協會) to campaign for the building’s preservation; Changhua County registered it as a historic building in 2018.