As to the appearance of Yingge ceramic industry, it was late till the years of Chiaching. The names and time during the period were not for sure. A saying with clear time indication is in the 9th year of Chiaching (1804). Wu An, native of Tsrtzao, Chuangchou, came for cultivation at the Rabbit Pit (now under jurisdiction of Kueishan Town, Taoyuan County) of Tahu District in accompany with the immigrant crowd across the sea. He discovered the clay of this place to be suitable for making ceramics, that he built a kiln to burn ceramics, and opened a new era of ceramic production at Yingge.
However, because of the confrontation with weapons between the people of Changchou and Chuanchou, he was forced to give up his cultivation achievement and moved to the belt along Kanchiao of Tahu. Later, he further oved to Chienshan (the current Chienshanpu Road). About at this time, Wu Ane and Wu Li, etc. came here across the sea, to join the ceramic making crowd of Yingge.

Wu-An first farmed and made pottery in Hare Pit, Yingge, later moved to Kanjiao, and finally resided in Jianhanpu

Hare Pit Bowl
Collection of Yingge Ceramics Museum / 1920’s
Yingge pottery originates in Hare Pit. The left illustration is the blue under-glaze bowl, while the right, Danan Bowl.