When Lukang began to operate as a port, vessels coming from Quanzhou bring clothing and large amount of medicine and would always need Quanzhou stone, Fuzhou fir and ceramic jar to stabilize the cabin. When Quanzhou stone and Fuzhou fir had arrive Taiwan, they could be used to construction temple and residence, while ceramic jar could be used to brew wine and contain picked vegetables.

Back then, when rich family celebrated birth of son and daughter, they would brew wine and store in cellar; if son is given birth, jar will be opened for celebration upon year of turning adulthood, and wine is titled as “Zhuang-yuan-hong”; if daughter is given birth, when she is to marry wine will be sent as dowry, and the wine is titled as “Nu-er-hong.” Later on, empty jars are used to pile up into jar wall for it is not only taken as a virtue of frugality, but also refined expression of life aesthetics.

In fact, there are many spots with jar walls in Lukang, but with they have gradually lost with urban renewal. For the time being, the greatest jar wall preserved at Lukang can be glanced from alley-way next to He-xing Police. Of jar wall, it is found into 15 jars every row, and they are piled up into four rows, whereas two faces of jar walls are built up with a total of 120 jars, which is most spectacular.

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