Tie Non: Jooquayjoo Mansion / 聚奎居 / 聚奎居

位於台中南部有一座很厲害的公館。叫做「聚奎居」。上網就知道它很知名。有很多人來玩拍拍照。其實，比我拍得厲害的人不少，我可以建議你也不要看我的部落格寧可看別的！

你還在看我的嗎？謝謝！

There is an amazing abandoned mansion in Taichung called Jooquayjoo (聚奎居). Copy and paste those Chinese characters and do a Google image search. You'll quickly see that it's quite well known. And because of how beautiful it is, it's a popular site for photographers to use. (Actually, since there are many photographers out there way better than I am, once you've done a Google search for this place, you may just decide to check out their blogs and forget mine.)

台中の南部にすごい邸宅がある。名前は「聚奎居」（ジュクェージュー）。この廃墟は結構知られているので、名前で検索してみたら、色んなブログとかが出てくる。まあ、正直言ったら私のしょぼい写真より上手く撮ってきた人いっぱいいるので、このブログを見らずにそっちを見に行っても構わない。それでも一応自分でこの邸宅をちょっと紹介する。

從台中站到聚奎居騎車僅需30分鐘就到了。我們先欣賞美麗的台中站才出發好不好？

I drove out to see the mansion from Taichung. First, here's the beautiful Taichung train station.

台中駅は日本時代の立派いなやつ。ここから聚奎居まではバイクで３０分ぐらい。

The mansion is not far from central Taichung, which is probably another reason why it's so well known. It took me less than half an hour of driving to get there.

我沒有查很深，可是看一看網路就知道了：這裡是差不多1920年建的。不確定可是建的人有可能是名叫陳紹宗。

I did a (very brief) search online, and it looks like this place was built in 1920 by someone named Chun Shou-dzong (陳紹宗). My thorough research has brought me to the conclusion that he must have been very rich, though I will admit to not having yet published a peer-reviewed article on this yet.

この家は1920年頃に建てられた。当時の持ち主は陳紹宗と言う人物。彼が1950年代に亡くなってからこの家が廃墟になってだんだん崩れてきた。子孫がいるらしいけど、おそらく意見が合っていないせいか、修繕作業が全然進まない。崩れるのは残念だけど、建物が放置っぱなしおかげで勝手に入って見学することができる。（厳密に言ったら私有地のため立ち入りはダメだけどね。）

那個陳先生1950年代過世了，後來這裡變成廢墟。聽說政府指定古蹟，但是因為子孫不願意，所以都沒有實施復健施工。壞掉的是很可惜，不過由於沒有施工因此可以自由地進去參光。（嚴格來講還是私人土地，進去不行。但沒有人關你。）

The place has been abandoned for a couple of decades, probably since the late 1950's. It's been designated officially as a historic building, but the owners apparently haven't gotten behind any plan to preserve the place, so it's slowly falling apart. While this is unfortunate, on the other hand because it's abandoned, you can freely walk right onto the grounds, though it is technically still private property and you're not actually supposed to.

好笑的窗戶和柱子

A hilariously dysfunctional window and column

面白いぐらい使えない窓と柱

雖然裝飾是受到歐洲巴羅克式的影響，但房子的形狀是傳統的三合院。

The shape of the house--three closed sides and one open side with a courtyard--is traditional southern Fujianese architecture. (Most Taiwanese people have southern Fujianese ancestry, so Taiwan is littered with this kind of three-walled houses.) However, the decoration is all European-influenced Baroque.

飾りはバロック式だが、家の形は伝統的な「三合院」だ。

其實不能說不危險。

It is actually a little dangerous wandering around in here. You have been warned.

廃墟だから、危険性はないとは言えない。

這裡太知名了，有的人也會過來拍婚紗照！對美國人來說這個風俗很有趣。除了一些華僑以外美國人都不會拍婚紗照。應該結果很漂亮，但是看起來蠻麻煩。

Like I said, this ruin is very well known in Taiwan. Here is a couple come do to their wedding photographs. (It's a thing in Taiwan, and in the Han diaspora in general. You take fancy photos of the lovely couple in some exotic, beautiful location before the wedding happens. You can't go anywhere beautiful in Taiwan without potentially running into a couple in wedding clothes having photos taken of themselves.)

有名しかも綺麗な廃墟だから、結婚式の写真を撮りに来たカップルがいた。漢人世界ではこの風習がかなり普及している。結婚する前にカップルはプロ写真家を雇ってどこか綺麗なところに行って写真を撮ってもらう。この写真は結婚式当日に使う。（例えば、本に集めたり、プロジェクターで映したりするわけだ。）台湾の綺麗な邸宅とかに訪れてみたら、こういう写真を撮っているカップルに出会う可能性が高い。

休息一下

The couple, taking a break while the photographer thinks about art or whatever.

休憩。写真家はどこかで角度と光の具合とか考えとるだろう。

誒？另外一對也來了！

Ok, so now we have two separate couples here for wedding photographs.

結婚写真のもう一組が来た！

脫皮掉肉

Earning his pay.

いい汗を流しているだろう。

我有去過的廢墟當中，這裡應該是最紅的！人這麼多！除了兩隊拍婚紗照的團體，還有大概六個觀光客左右。

I've never been to an abandoned mansion in Taiwan that was so busy as this before. Aside from the two wedding groups and the one tourist you can see on the left side, there were also at least six other people poking around who aren't on camera here.

結婚写真の二組以外、普通な観光客も6人ぐらいいた。こんなに忙しい廃墟は初めて、、、