The Lin Family Mansion and Garden
Restored Qing-dynasty merchant mansion and classical garden with pavilions, ponds and rockery once guarded by militia.
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This guide to the Lin Family Mansion and Garden in Banqiao, Taipei follows the Lin Ben Yuan clan from an eighteenth-century rice fortune to a fortified compound built amid Taiwan's regional feuds. You'll hear how five brothers' shares merged into one name, why several hundred militiamen once guarded these gates, and how the adjoining garden served as the family's answer to that tension. The guide also follows the mansion's later turn as a wartime refuge for soldiers fleeing the mainland in 1949.
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