Compounded nostalgia In 1949 the ROC government relocated from mainland China to Taiwan, and from 1950 onwards, to accommodate married servicemen and their families, all over Taiwan makeshift shelters were built with wooden frames and walls of bamboo lattice daubed with a mixture of rice straw and mud.
民國三十八年，國民政府播遷來台，為了安置三軍的眷屬，從三十九年起陸續在全台各地興建以木頭為柱標，竹枝糊上泥土、稻草為牆的克難房舍。