2013年10月3日 星期四

HELLO,TAINAN

When you talk about Tainan, what’s the first thing you think of? Historical stories? Historical buildings? Scenic spots? Or delicious food? In my learning project, I will introduce what I write above. This week, I will give you a brief introduction, and details will be told in the next few weeks.

 Location, Government & Politics

Tainan is a city in southern Taiwan, and it faces the Taiwan Strait in west and south. It’s area is about 2,192 km2, and it has almost 1,900,000 population.
Since Tainan County and former Tainan City combine to a new Tainan City, it has 37 districts in Tainan City now.
Won the election in the year 2010, William Lai is the mayor of Tainan now.

 
William Lai
Tainan districts


History

Tainan was Taiwan’s political and military center from 1624 to 1885. Before Dutch controlled Tainan, indigenous Siraya lived in Tainan for a long time. In 1620s, Dutch came, and then Zheng Chenggong, Qing Dynasty, and Japanese came in the order. All of this can be seen in the history textbook, so I don’t want to say too much here.


Scenic spot

Due to the colony background, there are many historical buildings in Tainan. For example, Anping Fort, Anping treehouse, Anping old streets. Besides, Tainan also has plenty of beautiful natural landscapes and what’s more, there is special hot spring in Tainan.
  
         
Anping Fort
Anping Treehouse



Oyster omelet

Food

Tainan is famous for its food. Local snacks are all delicious. For example, oyster omelet, shrimp roll. Besides, Tainan also has cheap but delicious food, and I will tell you about this in the future.








This week, I just introduce Tainan briefly. Since next week, I will tell more detailed things about Tainan.

2 則留言:

  1. Tainan is actually full of history, and also a center of "ancient" Taiwan.There are a lot of interesting things you can discuss. Maybe you can talk more about the original aboriginal in Tainan,and the history and buildings about Tainan in the next few weeks. I am expecting such kind of articles.

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  2. Tainan is really a cultural place!This summer i have rode motorcycle to visit Tainan,seeing a lot of historical sites,which are actually amazing! By the way,delicacies in Tainan are great!!

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