People get used to the present landscape of ecological
trails, but they rarely understand Dakeng's historical
humanity. People may know that Fengjia Bridge is the
main entrance to the maples in Dakeng Circle, but they
don't know why we named it "Fengjia"? The story of the
tobacco barn was also ignored by people with the time
passing and covered in the history.
Hakka villagers immigrated Dakeng
from Xingshe and Jhang Family (one family's name in
Fujian of China) settled down in Jyungongliao. History
Cultivation in Dakeng is a history about ethnic
integration. Here are some examples. Beiguan is handed
down from generation to generation. There are different
origins of Goodness Mazu. The beauty of Jyunfu
Temple's traditional construction, the grace of Royal
Prince's Palace, the ancestor's intelligence of Eight
Trigrams Furnaces of Cheng Chiao Buddhist Temple and
General Fengjia Ciu's and General Liren Sun's stories
and so on are also instances. Dakeng Mountain used to be
a place of culture and arts, which opened the climate of
local private teaching. Mr.Mumin Jhang built "Lize
Herbalist" and "Lize Library" at that time, but they
were stayed in the desolate creeping weed for nobody
organized them. With the great passage of the time,
Taichung's tobacco was getting vanished in people's
memory. The tobacco barns exists a few after the
earthquake on September 21st. The early tobacco was
exposed to the sun, nicknamed "Black Tobacco," whose
quality was worse. During the Taisho era (1912-26),
people adopted Osaka's tobacco barns and smoked
tobacco, nicknamed "Red Tobacco". The Royal Prince's
Palace and Tobacco cottage belong to this type.
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