Beipu Xiuluan Park

Xiuluan Park occupies the hillside behind the old street area of Beipu. It is named for Jiang Xiuluan (姜秀鑾), who led the Qing dynasty era settlement of the region. Several historic monuments stand among the trees, some original to the hill and others gathered here in recent years. The most prominent is a three-tower pioneers’ monument (開拓大隘紀念碑) raised in 1977, its central tower marking the Jinguangfu (金廣福) venture that opened the Da’ai (大隘) frontier, with accompanying monuments honouring 1895 resistance martyr Jiang Shaozu (姜紹祖) and the rebels of the 1907 Beipu Incident (北埔事件). Nearby stand a centennial monument (開闢百年紀念之碑) dating to 1933, a pair of Japanese stone lanterns (石燈籠) donated in 1936 during the Kōminka movement (皇民化運動), a memorial to the victims of the Beipu Incident (北埔事件遭難之碑) first placed in 1909, and a broken stele for Watanabe Kamesaku (渡邊龜作) and seventeen other Japanese officials killed in the uprising.