In communion with nature Around 1895, third-generation clan member Li Shuhua and his brothers brought over master builder Liao Fengshan from Shanxi Province in mainland China's Central Plains to enlarge their ancestral residence. Hence people also call the Li Family Compound "Central Plains House," and the nearby village is also called Chungyuan Village or "Central Plains Village" to this day.
清光緒年間，西元一八九五年左右，三世的樹華公兄弟自大陸請來山西師父廖鳳山擴建祖宅，因此人們又稱李宅為「中原厝」，而附近村落至今猶叫「中原村」。