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The Pingtung Native Art Museum is located in Tianliao Lane, Pingtung City. Its predecessor was the Qiu-family ancestral home “Zhongshidi.” First built in 1896, Zhongshidi was erected by Qiu Yuanshou, son of Qiu Fengyang, a general of the Liudui Hakka militia that resisted the Japanese. Later, Qiu Yuanshou and his son Qiu Qiushun operated the “Taiwan Sugar Co., Ltd.” While in business they amassed great wealth, so in 1915 they renovated Zhongshidi; after three years it was completed. In 1991, because Chung Cheng Junior High School in Pingtung needed to expand its campus, the Qiu clan donated two old houses and their land to the school. One of the houses was demolished first, and the land was turned into a sports field. In 1993, when the school was about to tear down Zhongshidi, local political and academic figures as well as historians fought hard for its preservation, and the Qiu ancestral home was saved. In 1995, Zhongshidi became the Pingtung Native Art Museum and was later declared a historic building of Pingtung County. The museum covers about 220 ping (approx. 727 m²). Its exterior layout is in the shape of the Chinese character “si” (四); it is a traditional Hakka courtyard house with two halls and two side wings. A front gate hall, a rear main hall, and the corridors between them enclose a central courtyard. The gate hall is the most ornate part of the house: the ridge is a water-curved horse-back wall with painted clay sculptures, the central screen door is decorated with gold-lei carving, the eave corridor has hanging-flower carvings, pendant-column carvings, spandrel carvings, and lion-seat carvings; the left and right porch walls bear painted clay reliefs—all signs of the Qiu family’s wealth at the time. Thus, the museum displays a rich variety of decorative crafts: stone carving, wood carving, terrazzo, colored painting, jiaozhi pottery, cut-paste work, clay sculpture, and more, all demonstrating exquisite artistry. In addition, the gate tower, side lanes, ancestral hall, half-floor mezzanines, sky-well, and corridors are all intact, showing that the Native Art Museum is a historic building of distinctive character.