Chishang Township

Chishang township is located in the north of Taitung County, Taiwan, with Fuli township of Hualien County in the north, Donghe Township in the East, haiduan Township in the West and Guanshan Town in the south. The township is located in the south of the central part of Huadong longitudinal valley. It is a fertile plain alluvial by Xinwu lvxi. There are central mountains in the West and coastal mountains in the East. The climate belongs to tropical monsoon climate and abundant rainfall. It has created the famous high-quality chishang rice in Taiwan.

Chishang Township

Chishang township is located in the north of Taitung County, Taiwan Province. It is also the junction of Taitung County and Hualien County. It is adjacent to Fuli township of Hualien County in the north. Its boundary is the county boundary of Huadong county. It is adjacent to Donghe Township in the East, haiduan Township in the West and Guanshan Town in the south. At the foot of the southeast mountain ridge of Guangyuan settlement is the junction of haiduan, chishang, Fuli and zhuoxi.

The north end of the township flows along the north side of Longquan stream (Wanchao stream) to the southeast, connects with Dapo stream, flows into xiuguluan stream, bypasses the north side of GONGDING mountain, and then flows southeast to dukaipu mountain. To the north of the township is Fuli Township, and to the south is chishang township.

The township is located in the south of the central part of Huadong longitudinal valley. It is a fertile plain alluvial by Xinwu lvxi. There are central mountains in the West and coastal mountains in the East. The climate belongs to tropical monsoon climate and abundant rainfall. It has created the famous high-quality chishang rice in Taiwan.

The residents in the village are mainly Han people and AMI people, and the industries are mainly agriculture.

history

prehistoric

Although Nanxing site, Funan site and BAOJIAYUAN site have been excavated in the prehistoric period of chishang area, there is no formal investigation report, so it is difficult to speculate about the activities of the ancestors.

Qing Dynasty

In 1836 (the 16th year of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty), the xilaya people, who originally lived in Pingtung plain and pengnongxi Valley, gradually moved to Guanshan, chishang and Fuli area of Hualian County. In 1842 (the 22nd year of Daoguang), the Pingpu People and the Beinan people joined hands to fight against the AMI people who originally lived in Dongli village, Fuli township. The Amis were forced to move northward to wuliushe (now Hegang, Ruisui Township, Hualien County) and shapengshe (now Nanfu village, Guangfu Township, Hualien County). Their original residence was reclaimed by Pingpu People. At that time, Pingpu People were distributed in the north from dijizhuang (now sanminli, Yuli Town, Hualien County), zhuluozhuang (now chunrili, Yuli town) and maruzhuang (now songpuli, Yuli town), with Dazhuang (now Dongli village, Fuli township) as the center, extending southward to xinkaiyuan (now Jinyuan Village, chishang Township, Taidong county) and Lilong (now Guanshan Town, Taidong county), including the whole chishang plain.

In 1851 (the first year of Xianfeng), a group of Pingpu People from Chishan village and Wanjin village, Wanluan Township, Pingtung County, crossed the central mountains and came to baosang area, Taitung City. In 1859 (the 9th year of Xianfeng), they moved northward in two groups, one of which arrived at Dazhuang, where they worked together with the people who had come before. Because of the large number of people and the narrow land, they were scattered to nearby areas for reclamation, and some of them expanded to xinkaiyuan, Dabi and other places.

In 1862 (the first year of Tongzhi), the living space of the AMI people in Hengchun area was squeezed by the xilaya people who moved from the west to the East and moved northward along the east coast. The Libi family crossed the coastal mountains through the East River and arrived at Yongfeng Village, Fuli Township, Hualien County, where they lived by burning and hunting. Later, it was found that Dapo stream was rich in water and there were many gentle slopes in the coastal mountains nearby, so it moved to the west side of Dapo stream, the east side of Huadong Valley and the small terrace near Dapo pool. In 1874 (the 13th year of Tongzhi), due to the influence of the incident of Mudan society, the AMI people in Mudan and Xuhai areas near Hengchun moved to Dapo one after another. Taking Libi's residence as the center, they gradually formed a settlement dominated by AMI people. During the reign of Emperor Guangxu (1875-1895), another group of Amis from Hengchun moved to Fuxing and established shuizhui society.

The main reason why Pingpu and AMI people chose the river terrace on the east side of Huadong longitudinal valley was that they were far away from the harm of grass cutting in the central mountains on the west side of the longitudinal valley, and avoided the flood disaster of xinwulu river. The two clansmen lived together in Dapo and xinkaiyuan, and had a good relationship without dispute, even intermarriage.

In 1875 (the first year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu), influenced by the incident of the peony society the year before, the Qing government abandoned the "ban on closing mountains" issued by Kangxi and adopted the policy of "opening mountains to pacify the local people" under active management, and began to introduce a large number of Han people to reclaim Eastern Taiwan.

In 1881 (Guangxu 7), Dazhuang area was flooded, and some Pingpu People migrated again. One of them moved south to xinkaiyuan. At the same time, another group of Pingpu People who originally lived in Hengchun District of Pingtung County and first moved to Beinan district also moved to DAPI, xinlongyuan, Wan'an and other settlements in chishang district.

The period of Japanese occupation

In 1894 (the 20th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty; the 27th year of Meiji of Japan), the Sino Japanese war broke out between the Qing government and Japan. After the defeat the following year, the Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed in April, ceding Taiwan to Japan. In May, Japan sent troops to Taiwan to take over, and then the war between Japan and Japan broke out. On November 18, the Japanese government announced that Taiwan would be pacified. But in fact, small armed conflicts in various parts of Taiwan continue to rise and fall. The eastern part of Taitung was finally occupied because of its location in the back mountain, and chishang was the last occupied area in Taitung.

In January 1896 (the 29th year of Meiji in Japan), after the Japanese army took control of all parts of Western Taiwan, it moved to Eastern Taiwan. At that time, Liu depiao, the deputy commander of xinkaiyuan, led more than 200 people to stick to it. On May 16, the Japanese army formed a crusade team to come from Kaohsiung by ship. Xiangliang Changgang, the head of Hengchun's Zhangchu Research Institute, first sent people to persuade the aborigines to form a "volunteer team" to garrison near xinkaiyuan. On the morning of the 24th, Liu Debiao led his troops to attack and left with more than 20 casualties. The main Japanese troops landed on the 25th and launched an attack on Liu Bu, who was still staying in xinkaiyuan at 6 am on the 31st, and then stopped for lack of artillery. When the attack was launched again at 4 a.m. the next day, it was found that Liu's troops had retreated, so the Japanese troops entered xinkaiyuan. Liu Department abandoned the new garden and retreated to net silk (today's Wanchao). On June 7, the Japanese attacked the silk net. Liu's troops retreated to the deep mountains and went over the central mountains to fight against Japan. As a result, chishang was occupied by the Japanese, and the eastern region fell. Two years later, Liu was captured in Yunlin and repatriated to the mainland.

In 1909 (Meiji 42), the governor's office of Taiwan began to promote the eastern immigration program. There are 2370a fields in xinkaiyuan, which are designated as suitable places for immigrants. Because there is a big pool in it, it was named "chishang" field with Japanese flavor in the next year. Later, the established immigrant village is also called "chishang village" (now Xinxing Village).

In 1913 (Dazheng 2), Taitung Sugar Co., Ltd. was established to undertake the two major undertakings of sugar making and immigration. Afterwards, 210 immigrant houses were built in chishang village. In 1919 (Taisho 8), a flood occurred in the qianquchuan basin of Nagano Prefecture, Japan, and 49 families of victims moved to chishang village.

In 1920 (the 9th year of Dazheng), the "Chi Shang Zhuang" was set up and put under the jurisdiction of Guanshan County of Taitung department. In 1921 (10 years of Taitung), Taitung Sugar Co., Ltd. reorganized its organization, separated the immigration business, and set up Taitung Development Co., Ltd. with the island as the main recruitment target. However, due to the poor system, lack of funds, poor environment and other factors, the Japanese and the islanders emigrated one after another, and the emigration villages in this stage failed completely.

In 1926 (the first year of Showa), the east line railway was opened to traffic. The station area in Tai Po gradually replaced the new park and became the focus of local development. After that, a large number of immigrants from the inner mountain of Hsinchu and Miaoli poured in, and the population of chishang began to surge. From 1930 (Showa 5) to 1940 (Showa 15), the population more than doubled in 10 years.

postwar period

In 1945 (20 years of Showa, Japan; 34 years of the Republic of China), after Japan was defeated in the Second World War, the national government took over Taiwan, and the administrative region was changed into chishang Township, Taitung County. The former Japanese society and private land were all nationalized. The government assigned 593 hectares of yuxipu land in chishang area to Hezuo farm (today's Taidong farm), 355 hectares of yuxipu land to Taitang chishang farm (today's Taitang chishang pastoral resort), 1867 hectares of hillside land to the land bank, and more than 160 hectares of Wanchao land to farmers in accordance with the regulations on the release of public land and rent.

Chishang township was highly valued by the Japanese during the Japanese occupation period, so there were quite a lot of architectural monuments left in chishang township at that time. However, only the old teachers' dormitories beside Fuyuan elementary school in chishang township of Taitung County on Zhonghua Road and the old railway warehouses sitting on Zhongxi 2nd road are preserved in chishang Township nowadays.

Basic information

Old name: xinkaiyuan

Type of Administrative Region: Township

Number of households: 3178

Township head: Li Yerong

Division: 10 villages and 125 neighbors

Website: chishang Township Office

Public opinion organ: chishang people's Congress

Postal Code: 958

Adjacent to: haiduan Township, Guanshan Town, Donghe township; Fuli Township, Hualian County

geographical environment

Chishang township is the northernmost flat Township in Huadong longitudinal valley plain of Taitung County, and the highest administrative organ is chishang Township Office. Under the jurisdiction of Fuyuan, Fuwen, Dapu, Xinxing, Qingfeng, Dapo, Jinyuan, Wan'an, Fuxing, Zhenxing and other ten villages. Fuyuan, Fuwen, Dapu and Xinxing are the most populous villages in the plain area, among which Fuyuan, Fuwen and Dapu are Jicun and Xinxing are scattered villages. The administrative, cultural, educational and commercial center of the township is located in Fuyuan village. The main traffic trunk line, Tai 9 line, and the chishang station of Taiwan Railway also pass through the area.

Chinese PinYin : Chi Shang Xiang