Xingang Township or Singang Township () is a
rural township in
Chiayi County
Chiayi County (Mandarin pinyin: ''jiā yì xiàn''; Hokkien POJ: ''Ka-gī-koān'') is a county in southwestern Taiwan surrounding but not including Chiayi City. It is the sixth largest county in Taiwan.
Name
The former Chinese placename was ...
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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 ...
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Geography
It has a population of 30,543 and an area of .
Administrative divisions
The township comprises 22 villages: Anhe, Bantou, Beilun, Beizi, Caigong, Datan, Daxing, Fude, Gonghe, Gonghou, Gongqian, Gumin, Haiying, Nangang, Nanlun, Sanjian, Tanda, Xibei, Xizhuang, Yuemei, Yuetan, Zhongyang and Zhongzhuang.
Education
Senior high school
National Singang Senior High School of Arts
Junior high school
Hsingkang Junior High School
Primary school
Hsingkang Primary SchoolWenchang Primary SchoolGumin Primary SchoolYuemei Primary SchoolAnho Primary SchoolFushing Primary School
Tourist attractions
* Xingang Mazu Temple
Originally a local temple to goddess Mazu
Mazu or Matsu is a Chinese sea goddess also known by several other names and titles. She is the deified form of the legendary figure Lin Mo or Lin Moniang, a Fujianese shamaness whose life span is traditionally dated from 960 to 987. Re ...
, the Xingang Mazu Temple emerged in the 21st century as a temple of regional and even national significance. It organizes annual "inspection-tour" processions through southern Taiwan and pilgrimages to Mazu temples in Mainland China, where it has opened a branch Mazu temple in Yongchun.[Hsun Chang, "Multiple Religious and National Identities: Mazu Pilgrimages across the Taiwan Strait after 1987," in Cheng-tian Kuo (Ed.), ''Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies'', Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017, 373–396.]
* Bengang Shuixian Temple
* Bengang Tianhou Temple
Bengang Tianhou Temple ( zh, t=笨港天后宮, p=Bèngǎng Tiānhòu Gōng) is a temple located in Nangang Village, Xingang Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan. Sitting on the south shore of the Beigang River, the temple is dedicated to Mazu, Godd ...
* Dasing Temple
* Dengyun College
* Fengtian Temple
* Liousing Temple
* Singang Railway Park
* Southern Altar Shueiyue Nunnery
Notable natives
* Ang Ui-jin
Ang Ui-jin (; born 16 June 1946) is a Taiwanese linguist. He was the chief architect of the Taiwanese Language Phonetic Alphabet and remains a scholar in the progressive reform and development of Taiwanese Hokkien.
Biography
Ang Ui-jin obtained h ...
, linguist
* Hsu Chih-chieh, member of 8th Legislative Yuan
The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei. The Legislative Yuan is composed of 113 members, who are directly elected for 4-year terms by people of the Taiwan Area through a parallel v ...
* Lin Chin-sheng
Lin Chin-sheng (; 1916–2001) was a Taiwanese politician.
Born in 1916, Lin earned a law degree from Tokyo Imperial University. Lin began his political career in his native Chiayi County, where he founded the Lin political faction and allied h ...
, Vice President of Examination Yuan
The Examination Yuan is the civil service commission branch, in charge of validating the qualification of civil servants, of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan). It has a president, a vice president, and seven to nine members, all ...
(1984–1993)
* Lin Hwai-min
Lin Hwai-min (; born 19 February 1947) is a Taiwanese dancer, writer, choreographer, and founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan.
Biography
Family
Lin was born in Xingang, Chiayi. He came from an intellectual family. His great-grandfa ...
, dancer, writer and choreographer
* Tsai Chen-nan
Tsai Chen-nan (; born 26 July 1954) is a Taiwanese actor and singer.
Tsai was invited by the Hsinkang Foundation of Culture and Education to perform in Xingang, Chiayi, by the organization founder Chen Chin-huang, who sought to mitigate the eff ...
, actor and singer
References
External links
Singang Township Office
Townships in Chiayi County
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