The hundred-year-old historic site in New Taipei City, "Huwei Elementary School Auditorium", was one of the first Japanese elementary schools established in the early days of the Japanese occupation. Its appearance is a typical public building made of red bricks during the Japanese occupation period. 22.96 million yuan has been invested in renovation, and it is now in use.

(Photographed by reporter Xu Zhuoxun)

[Reporter Xu Zhuoxun/New Taipei Report] The hundred-year-old historic site in New Taipei City, "Huwei Elementary School Auditorium", was the first Japanese elementary school to be established in the early days of the Japanese occupation. The appearance is mottled in disrepair. The city government invested 22.96 million yuan in renovations the year before last, and it has been completed and put into use today.

The auditorium of Huwei Primary School is located on the bodge of Jianshe Street, Lane 1, Tamsui District. It was moved to Paotai Po (Puding) in 1934. The original school buildings were successively taken over by the Tamsui Town Office. The rest of the school buildings were demolished and rebuilt as private houses. , in the past, because the city council froze the budget of the adjacent Shijia Ancient House, the auditorium of Huwei Elementary School was "sit together", and the repair funds could not be spent, resulting in a deep lock of the gate, and the mottled appearance was nicknamed the haunted house by the locals. Fortunately, it will be released in 2021 , Start the restoration project.

The auditorium of Huwei Elementary School witnessed the differential education during the Japanese colonial period. The Cultural Affairs Bureau believes that its appearance retains brick and wooden structures. As well as brick buttresses and round arched opening doors and windows, it is a typical red brick public building during the Japanese occupation period. Its location also witnessed the development of Tamsui area at that time.

Gong Yawen, director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the New Taipei City Government, said that the auditorium of Huwei Elementary School is one of the members of the "囧face" historic site, but it has more "white eyebrows" and "beards" than the Tamsui Customs Wharf mansion, which is very distinctive and welcomes the public to check in Photograph.