Tainan Wu Garden 3.3

Tainan Wu Garden, known at the time of its creation as "Purple Spring Garden," is located in Zhongxi District, Tainan, Taiwan . Built during the reign of the Daoguang Emperor, by local gentleman Wu Shangxin, it is included among Wufeng Lin Family Mansion and Garden, Hsinchu Beiguo Garden, and Banqiao Lin Family Mansion and Garden as the Four Great Gardens of Taiwan .HistoryWu Garden was built in the eighth or ninth year of the Daoguang Emperor . Salt magnate Wu Shangxin bought and built his estate to the north of the garden of He Bin, an interpreter during the era of Dutch rule who played a role in the fall of Fort Zeelandia, at the time also called "lâu-á lāi ". Because at that time, the wealth of the Wu family was considered the greatest in Fucheng, so there was a local saying "If you have the wealth of lâu-á lāi, then you don't have the lâu-á lāi estate; If you have the lâu-á lāi estate, then you don't have the wealth of lâu-á lāi 「有樓仔內的富，也無樓仔內的厝；有樓仔內的厝，也無樓仔內的富」".It remained this way until the era of Japanese occupation, when the fortunes of the Wu family began to decline, and its property rights were confiscated by the Tainan Office . In Meiji 44, it constructed Former Tainan Meeting Hall along the Garden's southern edge, as well as the then-famous Four Seasons Inn on its southeastern side, the Tainan Library in Taishō 9 on its northwestern corner, and Tainan Municipal Swimming Pool in Taishō 11 on its northern edge. In 1974, Four Seasons Inn, Tainan Library, and Tainan Municipal Bathhouse were sold to Far East Department Store, and is now the home of their Park Branch store.