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Pingtung -- History and Heritage - Part II

Xiadanshui Riverside Park

Xiadanshui Riverside Park

Zhongshan Park

Zhongshan Park was built in 1915 and was originally called "Pingtung Park" during Japanese rule. The park has an athletic field, the remains of A-Hou City East Gate ( the only existing ancient city wall of Pingtung ), and several monuments like the Taiwan Restoration Memorial Monument, 228 incident Memorial Monument, as well as monuments for the Taiwan Province Games and Taiwan Regional Games. They render the park historically significant.

Zhongshan Park is like the backyard of Pingtung. The plants have grown for decades to form very comfortable canopies that serve as a cool shade in summer days. The entire park is vivacious with schools of fish in the pond, pigeons and sparrows playing and flying around, and squirrels jumping between the caged passageways and crisscrossing branches. Such an environment is quite suitable for parents and children to get close to nature.

Chaoyang Gate ( A Hou Gate)

Chaoyang Gate is also called A-Hou Gate. During Qing Dynasty Emperor Daoguang's reign, officials and citizens jointly built four gates (East, West, South and North Gates), but most of them were torn down during Japanese rule for pavement construction. Chaoyang Gate, the east gate situated in Zhongshan Park, is the only one left. The worn brick walls and old trees growing around it render the gate even more quaint. It was originally beside a small tennis court. but after a space remodeling, the surrounding area has become more spacious and the gate now conspicuously stands for more people to appreciate it.

Xiadanshui Riverside Park

Xiadanshui Riverside Park, located beneath the old railway bridge of the Gaoping River, has a vast extent of green fields which are an ideal place for looking up at the magnificent bridge and watching the Little Egret playing around in the water. There is also an area where this historic site is introduced and parts of the old bridge, sheared off by a typhoon, are showcased, allowing visitors to experience the devastating power of nature. Also, a bike path has been established here, providing an ideal place for parents to fly a kite with their children and go other leisure activities.

Chonglan Xiao's Old House (Chonglan Community)

Chonglan Xiao's Old House was built in the 6th year of Emperor Guangxu's reign (1880) and was made with the traditional construction materials of bricks and wood. It was built by Xiao's ancestor Xiao Wei-tian when he came to Taiwan and settled down to run his sugar store "Zhen Ji". Then, his descendents transformed the building into an ancestral hall. Clay sculptures standing beside the porch of the entrance hall are still as vivid as they were when the house was built. Also, there is an academy named Ke Yu Xuan ("a hall for leisure time study" in English") that was language and Han Studies during Japanese rule. The Xiao Zhen Ji Foundation of Art and Culture has promoted community development projects and painted old streets and lanes with various colors, such as "Changlan No. 456 Art Lane", which has revitalized the Chonglan Community.

Source of Article: Pingtung County Government


City Pingtung County
Contact Information

Information & Tourism Department of Pingtung County Goverment

Tel: (08)-733-0036

Taiwan High Speed Rail

Kaohsiung Zuoying Station

Tel: (07)960-5000

Customer Service

Tel: (07)960-5000

Taiwan Railway

Pingtung Station

Tel: (08)765-5240

Location Pingtung County
Web Address http://i-pingtung.com
Transportation

1. Kaohsiung International Airport - the bus station is on the right side next to the exit. Take a bus bound for Taitung, Fangliao, or Kenting.

2. Zuoying Station, Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) - Leave the station lobby from Exit 3 and go to the bus waiting zone. Take a bus bound from Kaohsiung to Kenting (stopping at Donggang, Chaozhou, etc.)

3. Disembark at the THSR Zuoying Station and change trains to the Taiwan Railways Xinzuoying Station. Take a train bound for Pingtung.


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