"Although the earth and stone bricks were cool, they easily attracted mice, centipedes and spiders," he recalls. It was only after Taiwan's retrocession to China that they began to gradually change to real brick houses. Recently there have also been people using concrete and tiles.
「土埆厝雖然涼快，但是容易聚生老鼠、蜈蚣和蜘蛛」，劉萬得表示，到了光復後，才逐漸改成磚房子，近來又有人抹水泥、貼磁磚。