在地藝文

Established in 1899, Bao-an Train Station (保安車站) was originally located 1.5km from the current site, and was called Luqian Train Station(路墘車站). It was later moved to better serve the Luqian Sugar Refinery (路墘糖廠), and is now Taiwan's best-preserved wooden train station from the Japanese period. The building, constructed from Alishan cypress, remains in its original form to this day, and is an important meeting place for nearby residents and students of Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science.

Ten Drum Culture Village (十鼓文創園區) occupies approximately 5 hectares, and contains 16 old warehouses built during the Japanese Colonial Period. In 2005 it was repurposed by the Ten Drum Band, as an idea to revitalize the unused space. Through careful planning, new life has been given to the century-old sugar factory that had been left unused. Its miraculous rebirth incorporates the Ten Drum Band's innovative Taiwanese drumming music to give you Asia’s first drumming themed international art village. At night, Ten Drum Culture Village becomes a dream-like floodlit sugar factory.

Heading along Taiwan Provincial Highway 20 (台20線省道) towards Nanhua Reservoir (南化水庫) in the direction of Jiaxian (甲仙), when joining the starting point of the South Cross-island Highway (南橫公路), one is sure to catch site of the dazzling Holy Glory Temple (玉山寶光聖堂), one of the most significant sites of the Baoguang division of Yiguan Dao (一貫道寶光組). The temple is the biggest Yiguan Dao temple within Southern Taiwan, and is of a particularly large scale, having been built in accordance with the topography of the mountains around it and offering a spectacular view of the surrounding landscape.

If you walk down Nanhua’s rural road, turn a few bends and you will come to a village surrounded by hills. There are green hills covered in bamboo forest all around, and a faint breeze on the air; this is Breezy Valley Art Village(微風山谷藝術村).

1915 marked the 20th year of Japanese colonization of Taiwan. In the face of unjust systems, public resentment grew. In the summer of the same year, the biggest armed uprising against Japanese rule in Taiwan up to that time broke out at Tapani. Thousands of people were killed in the aftermath. This became known as the Tapani Incident(噍吧哖事件), or the Xilaian Incident(西來庵事件).

The Monument, commemorating the leader of the Tapani Anti-Japanese Uprising(噍吧哖抗日事件) Yu Qing-fang(余清芳), is atop Mt. Hutou in Yujing District. When the uprising occurred in 1915, Mt. Hutou was an anti-Japanese base and a place where the two sides fought fiercely. A large number of people were caught up in the incident and massacred during its suppression. As memories of this tragic and horrifying historic event fade over time, the Monument on Mt. Houtou continues to commemorate the brave deeds of the resistance fighters.

Yujing Beiji Temple(玉井北極殿) was built in 1717. The local people donated the funds to build a temple after Xuan Tian Shang Di (Dark Heavenly Highest Deity) warned them in a dream about a flood, allowing them to flee.

The expansive Karma Kagyu Monastery (噶瑪噶居寺) is the first White Sect Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Taiwan. Built in 1986, the temple displays a blend of Han and Tibetan cultures. As you approach the temple, the aroma of cassia flowers floating over the grass makes tourists unconsciously relax their body and mind.

"Tainan City Zuojhen Fossil Park is the only fossil museum in Taiwan that exists as a unique combination of school and educational museum by integrating the former Tsai-liao Fossil Museum, the Natural History Educational Hall and Guangrong Elementary School.  By integrating science, archeology, promotion of education and recreational tourism, the Fossil Park has presented itself as “The home of fossils” with its unique natural and cultural context, thereby transforming Zuozhen District into an important site for fossil studies.

When visiting Xinhua (新化), as well as the old street (老街), there are three other locations which are worth paying a visit to in order to truly understand the culture and history of the Xinhua area. These are Yang Kuei Memorial Hall (楊逵紀念館), Ou Wei Movie House (歐威電影館), and Xinhua Street Town Hall (歐威電影館). Ou wei was an actor, born in 1937 as Huang Huang-ji(黃煌基), he starred in over 80 popular films such as Execution in Autumn (秋決) and Beautiful Duckling (養鴨人家).