Central Street () is a street in
Magong City
Magong (Pe̍h-ōe-jī, POJ: ''Má-keng'') is a county-administered city and county seat, seat of Penghu County, Taiwan. Magong City is located on Penghu's main island.
Name
The settlement's Mazu temples, temple honoring the Chinese folk r ...
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Penghu County
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Taiwan
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History
The area of the street was the first settlement on the island, making the street the oldest street in Penghu. During the
Japanese rule of Taiwan
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 shor ...
, the street was expanded into a commercial area named ''The Seven Streets and One Market'', which includes the surrounding adjacent alleys and market. After Taiwan was
handed over from Japan to the
Republic of China in October 1945, the street was redesigned and new commercial districts were built. In the late 1980s, this historical street faced threats from urban development which might divide the street into smaller sections. Some local officials and scholars then launched a project in 1991 to preserve the street and made it a cultural and historical district.
Architecture
The oldest street in Makung, this winding, brick paved pedestrian street, located behind the city's
Matsu Temple, features the Shihkung Ancestral Shrine and the Well of a Thousand Soldiers. In 1682 the goddess Matsu is said to have bequeathed a magical well to Ming soldiers massing for an invasion of Taiwan.
Buildings along this street also show a mixture of Western and
Fujian
Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its cap ...
elements, such as the Chien-i Tang Chinese Traditional Medicine Store.
Many of them were constructed with red brick pillars and woods.
See also
*
List of roads in Taiwan
This is a list of roads in Taiwan.
Taipei City
* Civic Boulevard
* Dihua Street
* Dunhua Road
* Fuxing Road
* Guangfu Road
* Heping Road
* Jianguo Road
* Keelung Road
* Ketagalan Boulevard
* Minsheng Road
* Nanjing Road
* Renai Road
* ...
References
Footpaths in Taiwan
Penghu County
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