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Huang Li-yung’s (黃禮永) descendants were shocked last month to see that their family grave had been desecrated again.
Robbers had pried off the ornate stone carvings that flanked the headstone and made off with them. They probably hoped to sell the pieces for cash, as they were the handiwork of Chiang Hsin (蔣馨), whose relatives and disciples left their mark across Taiwan’s many temples and traditional structures.
Huang made his fortune milling rice in the late 1800s, propelling his family to the upper echelons of Lukang society where they were only