Cui Ping Li Xu Cuo Introduction
The Hsu residence, located in an alley on Cuiping Road, is the ancestral home of Hsu Chuan-hsing, the late general manager of the Dasi Farmers' Association. It was built around the 43rd year of the Meiji era (1910) and features a two-story brick structure with three main openings. The second-floor balcony is adorned with green-glazed vases as railings, and the walls of both floors, along with the railings on the second floor, are covered with numerous colorful tiles, each with different patterns. Traditional decorative elements commonly seen in architecture, such as figurines of the Eight Immortals and stories of the Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars made of "Caozhi" pottery, as well as painted scrolls, can be observed in the building. Notably, the building is home to rare brick carvings that include figures and auspicious patterns. These brick carvings, along with the "Caozhi" pottery and painted scrolls, were created by Zhang Jiao, father of the national treasure-level shadow puppetry artist Zhang De-cheng. Zhang Jiao, nicknamed "Han Fan," was a talented individual renowned not only in the realm of shadow puppetry but also for his calligraphy, pottery, wood carving, brick carving, and "Caozhi" pottery, making a name for himself in the area. Many buildings belonging to wealthy families in the original Dasi Township (renamed Dasi Community after the city-county merger) featured works by Zhang Jiao, but unfortunately, most of these buildings have been demolished and rebuilt, making them no longer visible today.
