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Shitan, Miaoli
Shitan Township / Shihtan Township () is a rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan. It is located in a mountainous area with a mild, sub-tropical climate. Its rainy season is from May to September. Shitan's population was estimated to be 4,141 in January 2023. History The area was occupied by native Taiwanese through the 19th Century with an economy strongly dependent upon hunting. In 1876 under Qing rule, the Chinese began to build bullock roads into the area. However it was not until the 1930s, during Japanese rule, that standardized roads began to be constructed. The first motor vehicle road was completed into Shitan in 1939, and regular bus service was started. However, by 1942 the bus service had ended because of fuel rationing. Administrative divisions The township comprises seven villages: Boshou, Fenglin, Hexing, Xindian, Xinfeng, Yongxing and Zhumu. Politics The township is part of Miaoli County Constituency II electoral district for Legislative Yuan. Culture The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Statist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakka People
The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Hainan, Guizhou in China, as well as in Taoyuan City, Hsinchu County, Miaoli County, Pingtung County, and Kaohsiung City in Taiwan. The Chinese characters for ''Hakka'' () literally mean "guest families". Unlike other Han Chinese subgroups, the Hakkas are not named after a geographical region, e.g. a province, county or city, in China. The word ''Hakka'' or "guest families" is Cantonese in origin and originally refers to the Northern Chinese refugees fleeing social unrest, upheaval and invasions in northern parts of China (such as Gansu and Henan) during the Qin dynasty who then seek refuge in the Cantonese provinces such as Guangdong and Guangxi, thus the original meaning of the word implies that they are guests living in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiong Con-ziin
Yiong Con-ziin (; born 22 April 1963) is a Taiwanese politician. He worked in several capacities within the Democratic Progressive Party and was named minister of the Hakka Affairs Council on 20 May 2020. Early life Yiong was born on 22 April 1963. He was raised in Shitan, Miaoli, and speaks Taiwanese Hakka. He is a graduate of Tunghai University. Career In 1990, Yiong began working for Yeh Chu-lan. Yiong was appointed to the Hakka Affairs Council in 2001, the year it was founded. By 2004, Yiong had become leader of the Democratic Progressive Party's Ethnic Affairs Department. As director of the Ethnic Affairs Department, Yiong backed initiatives reaching out to Taiwanese indigenous people and those of Mainland Chinese descent. During his tenure, the party passed the Resolution on Ethnic Diversity and National Unity, and issued a report on Japanese rule in Taiwan. In 2005, the DPP Ethnic Affairs Department produced a documentary about the sinking of the ''Taiping'' on 27 January 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provincial Highway No
Provincial may refer to: Government & Administration * Provincial capitals, an administrative sub-national capital of a country * Provincial city (other) * Provincial minister (other) * Provincial Secretary, a position in Canadian government * Member of Provincial Parliament (other), a title for legislators in Ontario, Canada as well as Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. * Provincial council (other), various meanings * Sub-provincial city in the People's Republic of China Companies * The Provincial sector of British Rail, which was later renamed Regional Railways * Provincial Airlines, a Canadian airline * Provincial Insurance Company, a former insurance company in the United Kingdom Other Uses * Provincial Osorno, a football club from Chile * Provincial examinations, a school-leaving exam in British Columbia, Canada * A provincial superior of a religious order * Provincial park, the equivalent of national parks in the Canadian provinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provincial Highway 3 (Taiwan)
Provincial Highway 3 () is a 435.608 km long Taiwanese highway that starts in Taipei and ends in Pingtung. Also known as Inner-Mountain Highway (內山公路), the road travels through mountainous towns in Western Taiwan and was the major route for the area until Freeway 3 was built. Route Description The route is also known as Zhongfeng Highway (中豐公路) between Longtan and Fengyuan, Zhongtan Highway (中潭公路) between central Taichung City and Caotun, and Yunmi Armaments Road (澐密戰備道路) between Zhongpu, Chiayi and Nansi in Tainan City. Since the highway runs roughly parallel to Freeway 3 for the majority of its length, it is now primarily a highway providing local access as well as a scenic alternative route to the freeway. The highway begins in Taipei City near the Executive Yuan. After a brief concurrency with PH 1 along Zhongxiao West Road (忠孝西路), highway 3 continues along Zhonghua Road (中華路) and Heping West Road (和平西路) be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grass Jelly
Grass jelly, also known as leaf jelly or herb jelly, is a jelly-like dessert eaten in East and Southeast Asia. It is created by using Chinese mesona (a member of the mint family) and has a mild, slightly bitter taste. It is served chilled, with other toppings such as fruit, or in bubble tea or other drinks. Outside Asia, it is sold in Asian supermarkets. Nutritional value Unsweetened grass jelly contains, per 500 grams, 2.5 grams of protein and about 15 grams of carbohydrates, of which 0.5 gram is from dietary fiber. Grass jelly has no fat, vitamins, or minerals. Preparation Grass jelly is made by boiling the aged and slightly oxidized stalks and leaves of '' Platostoma palustre'' (''Mesona chinensis'') with potassium carbonate for several hours with a little starch and then cooling the liquid to a jelly-like consistency. This jelly can be cut into cubes or other forms, and then mixed with syrup to produce a drink or dessert thought to have cooling ( ''yin'') properties, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesona
''Platostoma'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described as a genus in 1818. It is native to tropical parts of Africa, southern Asia, Papuasia, and Australia. ''Mesona'' and ''Acrocephalus'' has been known as its synonyms. A widely consumed species in this genus is ''Platostoma palustre'' (synonyms ''Mesona chinensis'', ''M. elegans'', and ''M. procumbens''), or ''xiancao'' (仙草) in Mandarin, ''sian-chháu'' (仙草) in Taiwanese, ''leung fun cho'' (涼粉草) in Cantonese, ''sương sáo'' in Vietnamese, and ''cincau'' in Indonesian and Malay. It is eaten as a snack in drinks, or set as a gel and served as a grass jelly. In Indonesia the ''Platostoma palustre'' leaf is used to make a black jelly; there is also an instant powder variety available. Species There are about 44-46 accepted species as below: # ''Platostoma africanum'' P.Beauv — tropical Africa, southern India, Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia # ''Platostoma annamense'' (G.Tay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wenshui Old Street
Wenshui County () is a county in the west-central part of Shanxi Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Lüliang Lüliang or Lyuliang () is a prefecture-level city in the west of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering Shaanxi province across the Yellow River to the west, Jinzhong and the provincial capital of Taiyuan to the east, Linfen t .... Climate References www.xzqh.org County-level divisions of Shanxi {{Shanxi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shitan Presbyterian Church (), a rural township in Miaoli County
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Shitan Town may refer to the following places: China * ( zh, 石滩镇, link=no), a township-level administrative unit under the jurisdiction of Fengcheng City, Yichun City, Jiangxi Province * (), an urban town in Qingxin District, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province *Shitan, Xiangtan (), an urban town in Xiangtan County, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province * (), an urban town in Zengcheng District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province ** Shitan railway station, a station in Shitan, Zengcheng, Guangzhou Taiwan *Shitan, Miaoli Shitan Township / Shihtan Township () is a rural township in Miaoli County, Taiwan. It is located in a mountainous area with a mild, sub-tropical climate. Its rainy season is from May to September. Shitan's population was estimated to be 4,141 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lingdong Temple
Lingdong may refer to: *Lingdong District, in Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang, China *Lingdong, North Sikkim Lingdong is a village in Mangan subdivision, North Sikkim district, Sikkim, India. The Ministry of Home Affairs An interior ministry (sometimes called a ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government department that ..., Sikkim, India * Yeongdong, region in Korea * Beijing Hyundai Elantra Lingdong, Chinese( Beijing Hyundai) spec of 6th Generation Elantra. {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koxinga
Zheng Chenggong, Prince of Yanping (; 27 August 1624 – 23 June 1662), better known internationally as Koxinga (), was a Ming loyalist general who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern coast. In 1661, Koxinga defeated the Dutch outposts on Taiwan and established a dynasty, the House of Koxinga, which ruled part of the island as the Kingdom of Tungning from 1661 to 1683. Biography Early years Zheng Sen was born in 1624 in Hirado, Hizen Province, Japan, to Zheng Zhilong, a Chinese merchant and a Japanese woman, known only by her surname "Tagawa" or probably Tagawa Matsu. He was raised there until the age of seven with the Japanese name Fukumatsu (福松) and then moved to Fujian province of Ming dynasty China. In 1638, Zheng became a '' successful candidate'' in the imperial examination and became one of the twelve ''Linshansheng'' () of Nan'an. In 1641, Koxinga married the niece of Dong Yangxian, an offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
