Bantaoyao

Bantaoyao is a tourist park that used to be a pottery factory. The theme park-like space is ideal for a visit if you would like to experience the joy of making pottery and relaxing in a garden decorated with pottery artwork. The Changyi pottery factory was the first to utilise tunnel kiln for making Koji pottery and mosaics for decorating temples. Today, you can still see their products in many temples around Taiwan. The founder of the factory, Chen Zhong-zheng, is a local who used to create fragmented ceramic art (剪黏, an art form of "cut-and-paste" that requires several skills of sculpturing to be combined, and is similar to mosaics) and Koji pottery, but with the gradual decline of the traditional industry, noticed that there was a massive talent gap. After realising this, Mr. Chen decided to fully dedicate himself to preserving the traditional craft and promoting Koji pottery. In order to lure more attention to preserving this traditional craft, he established Bantaoyao, where you can appreciate the beauty of fragmented ceramic art and even make pottery dolls or mosaic art by yourself. This is a good place to spend your weekends if you have kids and want to go out with your family.