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.

 

Resourced from

Taichung City Government Publication and Dakeng Cultural Association

Data organized by

Wei- Ling, Chen