Fengyuan

Fēngyuán (豐原) is a district in northern Taichung that served as the Taichung County seat from 1950 until the county-city merger in 2010. Originally a Pazeh settlement called Huludun (葫蘆墩), it was renamed Toyohara (豐原) under Japanese rule and developed into a timber and lacquerware production center. The commercial heart of town grew around the Ciji Temple (慈濟宮) and the adjacent Miaodong Night Market (廟東夜市). Fengyuan once supported over a dozen cinemas during the post-war entertainment boom, nearly all are now demolished. The Houfeng and Dongfeng bikeways, built on decommissioned rail lines, connect the district to the surrounding countryside.

Note: there is a similarly named Fenyuan district in neighboring Changhua.