Built: 1942
Designated Status: Historic building in Taoyuan
Address: No. 48, Puji Rd., Daxi Dist., Taoyuan City
Background:
This building was originally a grain storehouse built in 1942, towards the end of the Japanese colonial period. After the war, it was converted to housing for guards assigned to watch over a holiday retreat used by former President Chiang Kai-shek. Later, the Daxi farmer's cooperative rented the building to store edible salts and fertilizer. Since the building preserved special construction techniques used during the Japanese colonial period, in 2017 Taoyuan designated it as a municipal-level historic building. In 2021, it was restored for reuse as the Lunar June 24 Story House: Celebrating Lord Guan's Birthday.
The aim of the story house is to promote and preserve the Daxi Puji Temple Lord Guan's Birthday Celebration, an intergenerational popular custom that the Taoyuan City Government designated as an intangible cultural heritage in 2011. An old grain storehouse was restored and given new life as the repository of an ancient Daxi tradition.