在地藝文

Ruan Family Old House (Jing De Hsing Drug Store)(阮家古厝(金德興藥舖))

Ruan Family Old House(阮家古厝)is situated on Jingliao Old Street and is known locally as Jing De Hsing Drug Store. It is a street house, a Grade 3 National historic site and is an architectural treasure. The house was built during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor in the Qing Dynasty (1734-1795). It is a traditional street house building and has an attic, which is quite rare in old houses in Taiwan. The house has a wooden frame which was joined together using Chinese fir wood from Fuzhou, without a single nail used. It retains its ancient Chinese medicine counter.

Jingliao Elementary School(菁寮國小)

Riding a bicycle along the road past the waves of rice is a pleasant way to reach Jingliao Elementary School(菁寮國小), which is located not far from Jingliao Catholic Church. The school is a must-visit place for tourists to Houbi District. It is renowned for its mahogany forest, like something out of a fairy tale. There is a Japanese Colonial Time flag-raising platform in the forest;all the children’s play facilities are also there, an enviable fact.

Jingliao Holy Cross Church(菁寮天主堂)

When you make a turn on Provincial Highway 1 into Jingliao (菁寮), the first thing that catches your eye is the unusually shaped Jingliao Holy Cross Church (菁寮天主堂), designed in 1950s by Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Gottfried Bohm. The church’s silver exterior against the background of the green fields in Jingliao creates an especially striking contrast. The inside of the church may currently only by viewed by advance booking, and tourists may not take photographs of the interior. Please respect religious etiquette and do not make excessive noise in the church.

Xinan Temple Arts Center(新安宮藝文中心)

Xinan Temple Arts Center(新安宮藝文中心) is located in Kunjiang Village in Beimen, not far from the busy Nankunshen Daitian Temple(南鯤鯓代天府), but has the slightly desolate air and quiet of a traditional Beimen fishing village. This is where Mr. Hong Tong(洪通先生), known as the “Picasso of the East (東方畢卡索),” created works that stunned the art world. Hong’s works have a marked fantastical character, his color use and brush strokes of a kind rare at the time; distinctive features of his paintings are the undecipherable hieroglyphics and people without ears.

Hong Tong’s Former Residence and Painted Village(洪通故居彩繪村)

Kunjiang Ward of Beimen District (北門區鯤江里) is a small village near the Nankunshen Dai Tian Temple (南鯤鯓代天府). Hong Tong (洪通), who started painting when he was 50 years old, was called "Uncle Red Bean" by local residents. In the 1970s, his name was well-known across Taiwan and he sparked a fashion for amateur painting, making this place famous for being the home of the "Picasso of the Orient".

Beimen Visitor Center(北門遊客中心)

Beimen Visitor Center (北門遊客中心) is housed in a refurbished warehouse on the southwest side of the old Beimen Salt Washing Factory(北門洗滌鹽工廠). The outer wall is decorated with paintings by local painter Hong Tong(洪通), and recently, in response to Beimen's rise as a wedding photo location, the wall has been adorned with wedding themed decorations and art installations of all kinds.

Beimen Donglong Temple(北門東隆宮)

According to legend, when the ancestors crossed the sea and sailed to Taiwan in 1673, they brought a Li Fu Qian Sui (李府千歲)statue with them to help them cross safely. After they arrived safely and settled, they built three straw huts where the Li Fu Qiang Sui statue was enshrined. In 1945, Wen Fu Qian Sui was invited to enter the temple from Donglong Temple in Donggang, Pingtung(屏東東港) to help the common people. At this time it was renamed Donglong Temple(東隆宮), and the name is still used today. The King Boat Ceremony (王船祭典) is held once every three years.

Beimen Qian Lai Ye Grocery Store(北門錢來也雜貨店)

When a scene of the popular idol drama The Prince Who Turns Into a Frog (王子變青蛙), (home of the female protagonist )was shot at Qian Lai Ye Grocery Store (錢來也雜貨店), it briefly became a kind of pilgrimage site for t fans of the show. Originally built in 1952 as the Taiwan Salt Workers' Welfare Store (台鹽鹽工福利社), the traditional tiled bungalow was a place for salt workers to buy daily essentials, as well as a recreational center. But in 2001, when the Beimen salt fields closed down, the building was left empty.

Dong Long Temple Cultural Center(東隆宮文化中心)

Dong Long Temple Cultural Center’s(東隆宮文化中心)exhibition halls include The Cultural Gallery of Wangye, Outlaws of the Marshes Heroes Hall, Religious Cultural Relic Exhibition Hall, Folk Belief Research Hall and Ritual Cultural Relic Hall, with a large number of exhibits. The Cultural Gallery of Wangye is the only Wangye and Gua Xiang sacrificial ceremony-themed exhibition hall in Taiwan. Wangye belief is introduced in detail using pictures, ceremonial objects and exquisite wooden sculptures.