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Follow the Elders’ Road in front of the Chen Family Ancestral Hall; turn right at the first fork and, within moments, you’ll discover another venerable structure—the Kung Family Ancestral Manor. Better preserved and more elegantly antiquated than its neighbor, this old house was settled about a century ago by four Kung brothers who migrated from Tuku Village, Ligang Township, Pingtung County, to Elders’ Village. Built in the traditional three-sided courtyard style, the manor covers 3.3 jia of land and contains thirty interconnecting rooms. In the center of the front court stands an altar to Guanyin Bodhisattva; at the heart of the rear court is the ancestral shrine that holds the Kung family tablets. Every beam and pillar is “Fu cedar” imported from Fujian; after a hundred years they remain sound. The walls, about 36 cm thick, are laid entirely of stone and lime mortar—no cement at all. Door and wall carvings of mountains and rivers, dragons and phoenixes, qilins, cranes, and other auspicious symbols still look lifelike after a century of wind and rain. Window walls are sculpted in the shape of books, each inscribed with a different poem; the characters are still clearly legible. The floors of both courts are paved with red bricks laid in diamond patterns to prevent cracking—an example of early architectural science.