Mudan (Pingtung)

	Mudan ; 牡丹鄉
	; Location of Mudans in Pingtung County
State :	Republic of China (Taiwan)
County :	Pinging
Coordinates :	22 ° 8 ' N , 120 ° 46' E Coordinates: 22 ° 7 '34 " N , 120 ° 46' 27" E
Height :	0 - 1062 m
Area :	181.8366 km²
Residents :	5,010 (Sep 2018)
Population density :	28 inhabitants per km²
Time zone :	UTC + 8 (Chungyuan time)
Telephone code :	(+886) (0) 8
Postal code :	945
ISO 3166-2 :	TW-PIF
Community type :	Rural community ( 鄉 )
Structure :	6 villages ( 村 )
Mayor :	Cheng Yingming ( 陳英銘 )
Website :	www.pthg.gov.tw/TownMdt
	Mudan
	Mudan

Mudan ( Chinese 牡丹鄉 , Pinyin Mǔdān Xiang , W.-G. Mu ³ -tan ¹ Hsiang ¹ , PEH OE jī Bo-tan-hiong ) is a rural municipality in Pingtung County on Taiwan ( Republic of China ).

location

Mudan is located near the southern tip on the east coast of the island of Taiwan. The municipality is located in the southern end foothills of the Taiwan Central Mountains. The highest point is the 1062 meter high Lilongshan ( ⾥⼭ ) on the western border to the neighboring community of Shizi . The terrain is characterized by relatively steep, densely forested mountains and narrow valleys. In the municipality of Mudan, the three small rivers Youmudan ( 有牡丹溪 , Yǒumǔdānxī ), Nüreng ( 女仍溪 , Nǚréngxī ) and Zhushe ( 竹社溪 , Zhúshèxī ) flow into the Pacific. The climate is tropical and hot (max. 28 ± 3 ° C in July, 20 ± 4 ° C in January) and outside the monsoon rainy season relatively dry in summer. In the mountain areas, however, it also rains more frequently in winter. The typhoon season runs from October to April.

The neighboring communities are Shizi and Daren ( Taitung County ) in the north, Checheng in the southwest, and Manzhou in the southeast.

history

The original inhabitants of the area were Austronesian indigenous people . The immigration of Han Chinese began in the 19th century . The Chinese name Mudan , which translates as “ peony ”, comes from this period . The place became famous through the "Mudan Incident" in December 1871, in which stranded shipwrecked fishermen from the Ryukyu Islands were killed by the local Paiwan , which led to a punitive military expedition by Japan to Taiwan in 1874 . After the island of Taiwan became part of the Republic of China in 1945 , Pingtung County was established in 1950 and Mudan became a rural community ( 鄉 , Xiāng ). Since 2014 Mudan has enjoyed a special status as a “ mountain community of the indigenous people ”, in which the languages and cultures of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan are to receive special support.

population

At the end of 2017, 4,628 people (92%) belonged to the indigenous peoples. Most of the time it was Paiwan.

Outline of Mudans
Maliba 東源村 Smacharn 旭海村 Sinvaujan 牡丹村 Stagi 四林村 Jakachirai 石門村 Kuskus 高士村

Administrative division

Mudan is divided into 6 villages (村, Cūn ) (names in the Paiwan language, with Chinese names in transcription and writing in brackets):

Jakachirai (Shimen, 石門村 )
Sinvaujan (Mudan, 牡丹村 )
Maliba (Dongyuan, 東源村 )
Smacharn (Xuhai, 旭海村 )
Kuskus (Gaoshi, 高士村 )
Stagi (Silin, 四林村 ).

Infrastructure

There are three major roads: on the one hand, the Provincial Road 26, which runs directly along the coast when coming from the south, ends there after about half of the coastline and merges into the county road 199a (199 甲 ), which runs a course away from the coast into Inland takes and leads to the neighboring community of Checheng . County road 199 branches off from county road 199a and connects to the north to the neighboring communities of Daren and Shizi . There is no railway connection.

Agricultural products, fishing

Rice is grown in the coastal plain and various fruits are cultivated. Are grown jelly figs ( 愛玉子 , Ài Yuzi , fruits of the climbing fig variety Ficus pumila var. Awkeotsang), shiitake -Mushrooms, Cordia dichotoma (a tree whose fruits are eaten inserted and used in traditional Chinese medicine place) and Catjangbohnen .

Sightseeing and tourism

Mudan has a few stretches of beach, but is not a distinct tourist destination itself, but is primarily important as a transit station for visitors to the Kenting National Park located on the southern tip of Taiwan , which is the most visited national park in Taiwan with an average of over 5 million visitors annually .