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It is a typical rural village in Jing Liao region, Hou Bi District, Tainan. There are considerable amount of traditional residences, while local people called it ‘’Jia-Shan ’’. These houses are built by local artificer during 1900s to 1970s. The older houses are more than hundred years, the less are at least more than 40 years. As time passed, Jia-Shan System traditional house built in different period are with different materials. Thus, there are residence buildings with differences but coming down in one continuous line. For example, bamboo structure became bamboo lon house, bamboo and wood co structure became bamboo-wood house and wood structure became wooden house. These traditional residences truthfully recorded times and background in Jing Liao area. Through interviewing artificers several times in Jing Liao area, we can know about the structure, methods and names of composing structural units and of Jia-Shan System residence. Also, the artificers’ standards and taboos during the construction are recorded. Through the different Jia-Shan System residences of distributing the same area but built in different time;including from Chu Ji to Chu Bu in Qian Yan District, from Chu Ji to Bao Yan in Hou Yan District, eaves gallery pillar variation and the differences of structural units between bamboo structure and wood structure because of the difference of wall sustainable force intensity.;we can conclude that the artificers are under the standards of safety, practicality and artistic to uphold the spirit of continuous exploration, refinement and change so that they can realize the requirement of and keeping up to date of life quality from the residents. Because of the introduction of the new building, from later 1970s in Jing Liao area, there is no construction of Jia-Shan System building. Till now, the artificers are fading away, but there is no one can pass down the skills. That causes the difficulty of preserving the distinctive and traditional buildings. Fortunately, with the success of the community construction recent years, it figures out a possibility of these traditional buildings. That is, at the meantime of strengthening the community identities, if they can draw up a program of the Jia-Shan System residence as main part which is with deep local identity, they could create win-win situation between preserving tradition and community interests.
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