Taipei style: freshwater river nurtured the city style

Many of the world's cadenza glittering metropolis is located in the river. When the steam machine has not yet been invented, water is probably the most convenient, accessible to the farthest way of transportation, so some shipping convenience settlement is developed for the city. The river flow away, how many chunhuaqiuyue filled thick precipitate to the bottom, many city changing appearance record in a grain of fine sand. And gave birth to the Taipei, is a named "freshwater" river.

Tainan Anping City photograph: recommended Chinese National Geographic travel of the book "Taiwan"

By the river born

The story of Taipei from 300 years ago began. Qing emperor Kangxi forty-eight years (1709), Quanzhou "Ken," Chen Laizhang for reclamation "big Jianabao" (now the city of Taipei in the area). He recruited a large number of immigrants from Fujian, in the picturesque scenery of the freshwater river built town houses, the first Han village -- "new" appeared. Whenever the sun reddened the shimmering Crystal River and distant gentle hills, the men on the hoe. Their women wash clothes in the river to wash rice, with Tang accent singing songs of Fujian, tactful and diplomatic. Perhaps heard women's songs, maybe see the cottage roofs curl drifting smoke, from 2000 on the world in "the family" Ketagalan "came in a canoe, belonging to a more advanced civilization of objects using sweet potato and Chinese exchange.

Later, gradually concentrated to a downstream trade "Monga" (present-day Wanhua District). "Monga" is actually "Mankah" transliteration of pingpus "-- meaning" canoe ", because this lively place always canoe gathered. The first trading city street, 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, this city will be known to all the world today is from the thin side source.

Taipei 101 night photograph: recommended Chinese National Geographic travel book series of "Taiwan"

Bustling city

Starting from the nineteen sixties, the economy of Taiwan to catch the high-speed development of the express. From 1960 to 1986, Taiwan caught the opportunity of changes in international division of labor, use of the cheap labor force, vigorously develop the export-oriented economy, set up a pillar industry in the textile, household electrical appliances such as the core, industrialization and export expansion of Taiwan local foreign investment played an important role. Industry promote the rapid economic take-off, Taiwan has become one of the world's attention to "the East Asian tigers". Walking the streets of Taipei, large and small, all kinds of company signs a see things in a blur.

Tainan chihkan Lou photograph: recommended Chinese National Geographic travel book series of "Taiwan"

Still ancient modern city landscape painting

Taiwan writer said: "Taipei, is a mature landscape." He wrote: "the Taipei landscape in the first eye, those who stand back the many-storied buildings, like a wild plants don't need nutrients, a heap of clusters of derivative and interleaving everywhere, intertwining road, is a don't care in climbing vines, with some imperious gesture, a lot of overgrown with...... Some of the streets are those who hand in hand, side by side buildings to clip is flat, go deep in the street, there is a New York or London...... The city is huge stone street, the streets are city general building, lush interwoven into a full of vigour in the sun."

Taipei Wanhua photograph: recommended Chinese National Geographic travel book series of "Taiwan"

Walking the streets of Taipei, the mainland visitors will have a kind of as if the body in his hometown of illusion, because many of the streets here are named after the city in mainland China, such as Chengdu Road, Changchun Road, Qingdao Road, Wuchang street, Hankou street, Guangzhou street...... The ear is always hear fluent soft "Mandarin", even the old man "Mandarin" with change, accent. As the national capital of industrial and commercial society, Taipei is more smart and diligent vendors. In the Lutheran values, the most lively Ximen Ding, Chongqing, Po-ai Road, north-south road and West road...... Both sides of the road is the commercial building, new companies house, hotel, and stylish clothes the temptation of the hustle and bustle of large crowds of people in the window. Some "professional Street" gather together with industry, with the nature of the shop, interesting and convenient, such as buying wood sofa to Changsha Street or Nanchang Street, go to the cinema Hsimenting, buy a pair of shoes to Yuanling street, buy books to Chongqing South road...... There are some old, still clinging to the past years as a dream, let a person can recall something in those old in industry. As in the former Monga streets, still can find a new urban area is not easy to see the Buddha, incense shop, embroidery, thrift stores, there are green grass lane. Ksitigarbha Temple across the grass Lane, a dozen grass pharmacy, into a lane son, is the fragrance of grass, green everywhere, herbal varieties reached one hundred or two hundred, many produced by local Taiwan. Summer cooking pot herb juice, winter nourishing soup, can buy materials here.