Emei, Hsinchu

	Emei, Hsinchu Emei Township () is a rural township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. History Emei Township was originally named ''Goeh-bai'' (), taking the name from the curved crescent moon shape of the Emei Stream (峨眉溪). In 1904, during Japanese rule, the township was renamed to , which is retained as the present ''Emei''. Geography * Area: * Population: 5,591 (January 2017) Administrative divisions * Emei Village * Zhongcheng Village * Shijing Village * Qixing Village * Fuxing Village * Huguang Village Tourist attractions * Emei Lake * Erliao Divien Tree * Fuxing Old Street * Mount Shitou * Qixing Camphor Tree * Qixing Tree * Shierliao Leisure Agricultural Region * Xi Mao Bu Hanging Bridge Notable natives * Chiu Ching-chun, Magistrate of Hsinchu County (2009–2018) * Yang Wen-ke, Magistrate The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law. In ancient Rome, a '' magistratus'' was one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Township (Taiwan) Townships are the third-level administrative subdivisions of counties of the Republic of China (Taiwan), along with county-administered cities. After World War II, the townships were established from the following conversions on the Japanese administrative divisions: Although local laws do not enforce strict standards for classifying them, generally urban townships have a larger population and more business and industry than rural townships, but not to the extent of county-administered cities. Under townships, there is still the village as the fourth or basic level of administration. As of 2022, there are totally 184 townships, including 38 urban townships, 122 rural townships and 24 mountain indigenous townships. 174 townships with 35 urban and 118 rural townships are located in Taiwan Province and 10 townships with 3 urban and 4 rural townships are located in Fujian Province. Penghu and Lienchiang are the only two counties that do not have urban townships. Statistics of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Hsinchu County Hsinchu County (Wade–Giles: ''Hsin¹-chu²'') is a county in north-western Taiwan. The population of the county is mainly Hakka; with a Taiwanese aboriginal minority in the southeastern part of the county. Zhubei is the county capital, where the government office and county office is located. A portion of the Hsinchu Science Park is located in Hsinchu County. History Early history Before the arrival of the Han Chinese, the Hsinchu area was home to the indigenous Taokas, Saisiyat, and Atayal. After the Spanish occupied northern Taiwan, Catholic missionaries arrived at Tek-kham in 1626. Minnanese (Hoklo) and Hakka came and began to cultivate the land from the plains near the sea towards the river valleys and hills. Qing dynasty In 1684, Zhuluo County was established during Qing dynasty rule and more Han settled near Tek-kham. A Chinese city was established there in 1711 and renamed Hsinchu in 1875. It became part of Taipeh Prefecture. In the late 19th century, Hoklo peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. The territories controlled by the ROC consist of 168 islands, with a combined area of . The main island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', has an area of , with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its highly urbanised population is concentrated. The capital, Taipei, forms along with New Taipei City and Keelung the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Other major cities include Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the most densely populated countries in the world. Taiwan has been settled for at least 25,000 years. Ancestors of Taiwanese indigenous peoples settled the isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Taiwan Under Japanese Rule The island of Taiwan, together with the Penghu Islands, became a dependency of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after the Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War. The short-lived Republic of Formosa resistance movement was suppressed by Japanese troops and quickly defeated in the Capitulation of Tainan, ending organized resistance to Japanese occupation and inaugurating five decades of Japanese rule over Taiwan. Its administrative capital was in Taihoku (Taipei) led by the Governor-General of Taiwan. Taiwan was Japan's first colony and can be viewed as the first step in implementing their " Southern Expansion Doctrine" of the late 19th century. Japanese intentions were to turn Taiwan into a showpiece "model colony" with much effort made to improve the island's economy, public works, industry, cultural Japanization, and to support the necessities of Japanese military aggression in the Asia-Pacific. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Emei Lake Mount Emei (; ), alternately Mount Omei, is a mountain in Sichuan Province, China, and is the highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China. Mount Emei sits at the western rim of the Sichuan Basin. The mountains west of it are known as Daxiangling. A large surrounding area of countryside is geologically known as the Permian Emeishan Large Igneous Province, a large igneous province generated by the Emeishan Traps volcanic eruptions during the Permian Period. Administratively, Mount Emei is located near the county-level city of the same name (Emeishan City), which is in turn part of the prefecture-level city of Leshan. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. As a sacred mountain Mount Emei is one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China, and is traditionally regarded as the bodhimaṇḍa, or place of enlightenment, of the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra. Samantabhadra is known in Mandarin as Pǔxián Púsà (). Sources of the 16th and 17th centuries a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Fuxing Old Street Fuxing may refer to: Fu star (福星), or Fuxing, Chinese deity Fuxing (train) (复兴号, meaning "Rejuvenation"), China Standardized EMU operated by China Railway High-speed (CRH) Fuxing Road (other) Chinese compound surname (複姓) Mainland China Fuxing, Li County, in Li County, Hunan Taiwan Fuxing, Changhua (福興鄉), township in Changhua County Fuxing District, Taoyuan (復興區), aboriginal district in Taoyuan Fuxing Islet (復興嶼), Lieyu Township, Kinmen County Fuxing Radio (復興廣播電台), radio station in Taipei See also Fucking (other) * Fuqing (; Foochow Romanized: Hók-chiăng; also romanized as Hokchia) is a county-level city of Fujian Province, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Fuzhou. Geography Fuqing is located in the north-central part of ... , a county-level city of Fuzhou in Fujian Province, People's Republic of China {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mount Shitou Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England * Mounts, Indiana, a community in Gibson County, Indiana, United States People * Mount (surname) * William L. Mounts (1862–1929), American lawyer and politician Computing and software * Mount (computing), the process of making a file system accessible * Mount (Unix), the utility in Unix-like operating systems which mounts file systems Displays and equipment * Mount, a fixed point for attaching equipment, such as a hardpoint on an airframe * Mounting board, in picture framing * Mount, a hanging scroll for mounting paintings * Mount, to display an item on a heavy backing such as foamcore, e.g.: To pin a biological specimen, on a heavy backing in a stretched stable position for ease of dissection or display ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Qixing Camphor Tree __NOTOC__ Qixing may refer to: China In Guilin, Guangxi Qixing District (七星区) Seven-star Cave, or Qixingyan (七星岩), cave complex in Guilin Qixing Mountain (Guilin) (七星山), in Qixing Park, Guilin Qixing Park (七星公园), park in the vicinity of Seven-star Cave and Qixing Mountain Elsewhere Qixing Mountain (Shenyang) (七星山), in Xinchengzi District, Shenyang, Liaoning Seven Star Crags (七星岩), in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Qixing Subdistrict (七星街道) Qixing Subdistrict, Guilin, in Qixing District, Guilin, Guangxi Qixing Subdistrict, Mudanjiang, in Dong'an District, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang Qixing Subdistrict, Shuangyashan, in Baoshan District, Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang Qixing Subdistrict, Xinchang County, Zhejiang Towns named Qixing (七星镇) Qixing, Luanping County, Chongqing Qixing, Shuangyashan, in Baoshan District, Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang ** Qixing, Jiaxing, in Nanhu District, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Qixing Township, Yunnan (七星 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Qixing Tree __NOTOC__ Qixing may refer to: China In Guilin, Guangxi Qixing District (七星区) Seven-star Cave, or Qixingyan (七星岩), cave complex in Guilin Qixing Mountain (Guilin) (七星山), in Qixing Park, Guilin Qixing Park (七星公园), park in the vicinity of Seven-star Cave and Qixing Mountain Elsewhere Qixing Mountain (Shenyang) (七星山), in Xinchengzi District, Shenyang, Liaoning Seven Star Crags (七星岩), in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Qixing Subdistrict (七星街道) Qixing Subdistrict, Guilin, in Qixing District, Guilin, Guangxi Qixing Subdistrict, Mudanjiang, in Dong'an District, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang Qixing Subdistrict, Shuangyashan, in Baoshan District, Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang Qixing Subdistrict, Xinchang County, Zhejiang Towns named Qixing (七星镇) Qixing, Luanping County, Chongqing Qixing, Shuangyashan, in Baoshan District, Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang ** Qixing, Jiaxing, in Nanhu District, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Qixing Township, Yunnan (七星 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Xi Mao Bu Hanging Bridge Xi may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Xi'' (alternate reality game), a console-based game * Xi, Japanese name for the video game '' Devil Dice'' Language Xi (letter), a Greek letter Xi, a Latin digraph used in British English to write the sound People Xi (surname), any of several Chinese surnames Xi Jinping, current paramount leader of China Places Xi (state), an ancient Chinese state during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties * Xi County, Henan, China Xi County, Shanxi, China Xi River, western tributary of the Pearl River in southern China Other uses * Xi (business), a Chinese form of business organization * Xi baryon, a range of baryons with one up or down quark and two heavier quarks * Xi, a brand name for the 4G LTE mobile telecommunications service operated by NTT DoCoMo in Japan * Xi (apartment), a brand name for some apartments constructed by GS Construction in Korea. See also * XI (other) * 11 (other) * Kumo Xi, an ancient Mongolic p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]