A study on the Architectural Development of the Family House Wei Chengmei Hall

• Main Authors: Jia-You Wei, 魏嘉攸
• Other Authors: 邱博舜
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2p86s3

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 建築與古蹟保存研究所 === 96 === After the Wei’s family immigrated to Taiwan and settled down in Yongjing of Zhanghua, they became rich in the town, because Wei Shang-ying of the second generation run the Fifteen-Town Canals. The Wei Chengmei Hall was allocated by one of the Fifteen-Town Canals and the management of irrigation system was closely related to the settlement of the Wei’s family and the construction of this family house. During the period of three political eras, the architectural development of the Wei Chengmei Hall went through three phases of transformation, from a water house to an ancestral shrine, and then to a fully developed courtyard house compound with two rows and double wing buildings, in accordance with the generation and the division of the Wei’s family members. Apart from a scrutiny of the relationship between the Fifteen-Town Canals and the development of the Wei’s family, the architectural development of Wei Chengmei Hall was narrated on the basis of the ethical order of a traditional Taiwanese house, the generation and the division of the family members and the change of their religious belief.