Cui Ping Li Xu Cuo Introduction
The residence of Hsu Tso, located within Cuiping Lane, is the ancestral home of the late chief executive of the Dasha Community Farmers' Association, Hsu Chuan-hsing. It was built around the 43rd year of the Meiji era (1910), featuring a three-bay, two-story brick building with a central corridor design. The second-floor balcony is adorned with green-glazed vase-shaped railings, and both the first and second floors display a variety of colorful tiles with different patterns. The architectural design includes traditional decorative elements such as sculptures of the Eight Immortals and stories from the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, as well as painted scroll inscriptions. Notably, this building also showcases rare brick carvings featuring figures and auspicious patterns. These carvings and the jiaozi pottery and painted scroll inscriptions were created by the esteemed shadow play artist Zhang Jiao, known as "Han Fan." A versatile artist, Zhang was not only a leading figure in the shadow play industry but also renowned for his calligraphy, ceramic art, wood carving, brick carving, and jiaozi pottery. His works could be found on many mansions in the original Dasha Township (renamed Dasha Community after the merger of counties and cities), but unfortunately, most of these buildings have been demolished and rebuilt, making them no longer visible today.
