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 Chiu (黃秋) and Huang Chun-chieh (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 Song-lin (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 Chun-chieh’s son Huang Hsi-kun (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.