Jin De Chun Old Tea House Introduction
Jin De Spring Tea Shop was founded in the seventh year of the Qing Tongzhi era (1868) and has been passed down to the fifth generation. The tea shop is located at its original site to this day. The fourth-generation owner, Mr. Lin Yinglong, attended Lidong Elementary School and fondly recalls playing in the areas around Wumiao, Mazu Temple, and Guandi Port during his childhood. At that time, there were other businesses in the lottery alley, such as scissors craftsmen and lice handle makers, and a shop at the corner sold lanterns used on theater stages, which were very bright and left a deep impression. This alley became known as Lottery Alley due to the popularity of lottery drawing and fortune-telling. A notable feature of the shop is a row of large tea jars, each with a history of over a hundred years, originally brought to Taiwan by merchants from Tangshan during the Qing Dynasty. During the Japanese occupation, when American forces bombed Taiwan, many buildings in the vicinity were flattened, and numerous tea jars were damaged; now there are fewer than ten remaining in the store.
