So exceptional was the home that when Ku Te-fu's grandfather built it, people asked him if he had sold the farm to do so. When Typhoon Thelma struck Taiwan in 1977, it ripped the roof off the house.
古德福的祖父當年蓋這座夥房時，有人問：「你這房子會不會蓋到田裡去？」（指賣田的意思）