Taishan

Tàishān (泰山) lies at the foot of the Linkou Plateau in New Taipei. The district takes its current name from a pair of temples dedicated to the Xianying Zushi (顯應祖師), a deity brought from Anxi County in Fujian. The most prominent of these is Dingtaishan Temple (頂泰山巖), built in 1754 and designated a municipal monument for its elaborate woodwork by master craftsman Chén Yìngbīn (陳應彬). Taishan Mingzhi Academy (泰山明志書院), founded in 1763, was the first formal academy in northern Taiwan, earning the district a reputation as a center of early Qing dynasty era scholarship. Taishan was administratively separated from neighboring Xinzhuang in 1950.