Cizao is a town in Jinjiang City, located in the southwest of the old Quanzhou City in the Fujian Province, China. The soil in Cizao Town is rich on good clay, and people there built snake kilns on the hillsides. Cizao has been known for its pottery since the first production started back in AD 265 (the first year of Emperor Wu Taishi of the Western Jin dynasty). Most people in Cizao belong to the Wu clan. Their main skill was wheel-throwing and they used the technique to create pottery in every generation. With the rise of the Maritime Silk Route, the Cizao pottery was shipped and sold to East and Southeast Asia, and gained a high international reputation.

Wu An, from Cizao Town near Quanzhou City, in the Fujian Province, came to Taiwan in 1804. He settled in the area near Yingge Rock Village called Rabbit Hole (now the Rabbit Hole of Guishan Area) and started making pottery. During the late Qing Dynasty, at the height of Japanese Colonialism, two other Wu clansmen, Wu Ann and Wu Li, of Cizao town of Quanzhou city, also came to Taiwan. The Wu clan gathered in the Jianshanpu area. From 1853 onwards, they worked in farming and made pottery. They employed the wheel-throwing technique to produce household wares. At the time, according to tradition the skill of pottery could pass only from father to sons, never to daughters. Therefore, the Wu clan became the only pottery family in Yingge. It remained so until the 1920s, when the family gradually dispersed.