The island you early Taipei river breeds lights sleepless city

"You Taipei" a singing all over the island of Taiwan, sing red earth of the motherland mountains and rivers of the songs, is the understanding of the city that never sleeps, but 300 years ago, here is the "wilderness".

The night of Taipei

Qing emperor Kangxi forty-eight years, Quanzhou "Ken," Chen Laizhang for reclamation "big Jianabao", that is today's Taipei is area. He recruited a large number of immigrants from Fujian, in freshwater river built home -- new premises. So, from 2000 on the world in "the family" Ketagalan "they paddled the canoe to belong to a more advanced civilization of objects using sweet potato and Chinese exchange.

Busy so

Later, trade gradually concentrated to downstream Monga areas, also is now Wanhua district. Because this place always canoe gathered, Pingpu ethnic groups is here called "Mankah" (meaning "canoe").

Since then, the first trading city appeared, because in the early days of sweet potato is the main transaction, the name of the street is called "sweet potato city street". This is the first street of Taipei, now this be known to all the world that never sleeps is from the small street source.

One of the East Asian Tigers

Sanmao once said, "in the Taipei mind is not clear, all day busy." Since the nineteen sixties to the 80's, Taipei is truly become the "developed" the era of cheap labor, created the textile, home appliances and other pillar industries, the river bank villages have developed into one of the "East Asian Tigers", fresh water river bred here now developed and busy, when tourists into Taipei, also will sign here. The diligent and not rest.

101 building

Ximending, night market, 101, yangmingshan...... A busy or beautiful places, on one hand is enshrined here history, hand also explains her "sleepless", day and night of this pair of contradiction, there is no difference here.