Located in the coastal township of Zhuangwei, Ren’ai New Village (仁愛新村) is one of around 35 communities established around Taiwan after residents of the Dachen Islands were evacuated in 1955. Initially there were around 49 households with 234 residents in this village, and most were employed as fishermen operating out of the nearby Donggang Fishing Port (東港漁港).
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Nowadays the vast majority of these old homes are abandoned as residents moved on to more modern housing elsewhere, but a small temple venerating the Dachen Islander God of Fishing (漁師大神) remains. This god is unique in Taiwan and, according to culture workers, is a deification of Tang dynasty official Zhang Zhihe (張志和), who is renowned for his love of fishing. In the 2020s some effort has been invested into developing the area for tourism.
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- Status:Idle (閒置)
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Digital Taiwan (典藏台灣)
Sources
- Dachen New Village Demographics《大陳新村各地區人口分佈及職業概況》
Themes
- KMT Authoritarian Era Taiwan (國民政府時期)
- Dachen New Villages (台灣大陳村)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.