Jinshan District () is a rural

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on the coast in northern New Taipei,

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 nort ...

. The district draws many visitors each year because of its

hot springs A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by circ ...

and its proximity to

Chin Pao San Chin Pao San (also Jinbaoshan, Jiongbaoshan ) is a private cemetery located on a mountainside in Jinshan District, New Taipei, Taiwan. The site overlooks the Ju Ming Museum and, beyond it, the East China Sea. Urns at Jinbaoshan are placed both ...

and the

Ju Ming Museum The Juming Museum () is a museum in Jinshan District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. It displays the works of Taiwanese sculptor Ju Ming. History Initially purchased the building and the surrounding wasteland area for his personal art works collectio ...

. The district is home to the

Dharma Drum Buddhist College Dharma (; sa, धर्म, dharma, ; pi, dhamma, italic=yes) is a key concept with multiple meanings in Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and others. Although there is no direct single-word translation for ''d ...

, an institution of higher learning founded by Dharma Drum Mountain monastics devoted to the principles of

Zen Buddhism Zen ( zh, t=禪, p=Chán; ja, text= 禅, translit=zen; ko, text=선, translit=Seon; vi, text=Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty, known as the Chan School (''Chánzong'' 禪宗), and ...

Name Origin

This area was originally a

Ketagalan Ketagalan or Ketangalan () are a Taiwanese aborigines, Taiwanese aboriginal people originating in what is now the Taipei Basin. Their Ketagalan language, language has now become extinct. On 21 March 1996, the road in front of the Presidential O ...

settlement, called "Ki-ppare" ( Basay: Quimourije), meaning "bumper harvest". This was later adapted as ''Kimpauli'' (金包里; ), the choice of characters perhaps influenced by the discovery of golden dust in the Sulfur creeks. In 1920 during Japanese rule, the area was renamed Kanayama Village (金山庄), Kīrun District (基隆郡),

Taihoku Prefecture Taihoku Prefecture (台北州; ''Taihoku-shū'') was an administrative division of Taiwan created in 1920, during Japanese rule. The prefecture consisted of modern-day Keelung, New Taipei City, Taipei and Yilan County. Its government office, ...

Qingshui Wetland

Adjacent to Jinshan town at the north-west is a lowland

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formed by alluvial deposits from Sulphur Creek (磺溪), Xishi Creek (西勢溪) and Qingshui Creek (清水溪). It is the last resting point in Taiwan for many migratory birds heading north during Spring and the first in the country for those heading south during Autumn. It has also served as habitat for rare vagrants such as the critically endangered Siberian Crane (''Leucogeranus leucogeranus'') and endangered

Red-Crowned Crane The red-crowned crane (''Grus japonensis''), also called the Manchurian crane or Japanese crane (; the Chinese character '丹' means 'red', '頂/顶' means 'crown' and '鶴/鹤' means 'crane'), is a large East Asian crane among the rarest cran ...

(''Grus japonensis'').

Geography

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: 49.21 km² *

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: 22,400 people (2014)

Education

Jinshan Senior High School Jinshan can refer to places: Mainland China *Jinshan District (金山区), Shanghai * Mount Jin (Zhenjiang), mountain in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu ;Subdistricts (金山街道) * Jinshan Subdistrict, Fuzhou, in Cangshan District, Fuzhou, Fujian * Jinshan ...

(grades 7-12) * Jinshan Elementary School * Zhongjiao National Elementary School * Sanhe National Elementary School * Jinmeimin Elementary School

Tourist attractions

Twin Candlestick Islets The Twin Candlestick Islets () are islets in Jinshan District, New Taipei, Taiwan. History The islets were once part of Jinshan Cape. Due to the continuous movement of tectonics plates and coastal erosion, they separated from the island of Tai ...

Yangmingshan National Park Yangmingshan National Park is one of the nine national parks in Taiwan, located in both Taipei and New Taipei City. The districts that are partially in the park include Taipei's Beitou and Shilin Districts; and New Taipei's Wanli, Jinshan, ...

Notable natives

Lee Hong-chi Lee Hong-chi (; born 10 May 1990) is a Taiwanese actor. He is best known for starring in the 2015 film ''Thanatos, Drunk'', for which he was named Best New Performer at the 52nd Golden Horse Awards. Early life Lee was born in Jinshan District, ...

, actor

References

External links

* {{Districts in Taiwan Districts of New Taipei