Among the sites in Taiwan officially designated as "privately owned historical monuments," 19 are old dwelling houses. But due to inadequacies in the legal framework for monument protection, and because of the high value of the land they stand on--sometimes in the tens or even hundreds of millions of NT dollars--almost all their owners wish they could be delivered from the "curse" of their property being so defined.
在內政部所指定的「私有古蹟」裡，共有十九處民宅古蹟，由於古蹟保護法令不周，加上千萬上億的土地價值，幾乎全數的私有古蹟業主都希望自己能從「古蹟」的緊箍咒裡解套。