Yang Family Chastity Archway

　　Built in the 4th year of the Daoguang era (1824), the Yang Family Chastity Archway is the oldest existing archway in Hsinchu City and exemplifies Taiwan’s classic four-pillar, three-bay, three-story archway design. Yang was one of the few chaste women not from a prominent background, so only two of the archway’s pillar inscriptions were penned by notable figures—both identical on both sides—an uncommon feature among archways. The stone-paved street where the Yang Family Chastity Archway stands, historically the main route into the city, now retains only about 20 meters of cobblestones at the base of the archway, which is also preserved as a historic site.