Wanrong (Hualien)

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Wanrong
萬榮 鄉
Malibasi - Bānêng - (Wanrong, Hualien County) .svg
Location of Wanrong in Hualien County
State : TaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) Republic of China (Taiwan)
County : Hualien
Coordinates : 23 ° 43 '  N , 121 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 23 ° 42 '40 "  N , 121 ° 17' 55"  E
Area : 618.4910  km²
 
Residents : 6,459 (June 2018)
Population density : 10 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : UTC + 8 (Chungyuan time)
Telephone code : (+886) (0) 3
Postal code : 979
ISO 3166-2 : TW-HUA
 
Community type : Rural community ( 鄉 )
Structure : 6 villages ( 村 )
Mayor : Lin Xinyin ( 林 新 銀 ) ( KMT )
Website :
Wanrong (Taiwan)
Wanrong
Wanrong

Wanrong ( Chinese  萬榮 鄉 , Pinyin Wànróng Xiāng ) is a rural community in Hualien County in the Republic of China (Taiwan) .

Location, geography

Wanrong is practically entirely in the Taiwan Central Mountains . The topography is therefore largely characterized by mountainous terrain that reaches heights of over 3000 meters. Between the mountains there are relatively narrowly cut valleys, in which some smaller rivers run. The climate varies with the height above sea level and is subtropical, humid and warm in the valley plains and temperate to alpine in the high altitudes. The neighboring communities are Xiulin in the north, Fenglin , Guangfu and Ruisui in the east, Zhuoxi in the south, and Xinyi in the neighboring district of Nantou in the west.

history

Despite its remoteness, the region has been populated for thousands of years. The oldest, historically tangible inhabitants were members of Austronesian tribal peoples . At the Pinglin site ( 平林 ) in the village of Xilin, there is an archaeological find and excavation site where jade was extracted and processed in prehistoric times . The site was identified in 1929 ( Lage ). It has been a listed building since 2010. Jade artifacts from Pinglin were found scattered all over Southeast Asia, so that they may have spread in parallel with the expansion of the Austronesian languages from Taiwan .

After the island of Taiwan came to the Chinese Empire in the 17th century , the Wanrong region was initially largely left to its own devices due to its inaccessibility. A loose administrative penetration did not take place until the time of the Japanese rule over Taiwan (1885–1945). After Taiwan was transferred to the Republic of China, the area was administratively reorganized as 'Wanli Township'. In the late 1940s, Wanli was renamed 'Wanrong' because it had the same name as the municipality of Wanli in what was then Taipei County.

Outline of Wanrong

Wanrong villages.svg

Xilin
西林 村
Wanrong
萬榮 村
Jianqing
見 晴 村
Mingli
明利 村
Mayuan
馬 遠 村
Hongye
紅葉 村

Administrative structure

Wanrong is divided into 6 villages ( 村 , Cūn ) (from north to south): Xilin ( 西林 村 ), Jianqing ( 見 晴 村 ), Wanrong ( 萬榮 村 ), Mingli ( 明利 村 ), Mayuan ( 馬 遠 村 ) and Hongye ( 紅葉 村 ).

population

According to official statistics, 6,141 people belonged to the indigenous peoples at the end of 2017, corresponding to a population share of around 95%. Mostly it is about Truku and Bunun .

Agriculture

Agriculture is the dominant industry. Typical products are bamboo shoots , which are harvested in March and April, vegetable onions ( 蕗 蕎 , Lùqiáo ; Allium chinense ?) , Which are harvested in autumn and winter, nest fern ( 山 蘇 , Shānsũ ; a vegetable), cinnamon , peach , and Litsea cubeba ( 山 胡椒 , Shān hújiāo ; "mountain pepper"), an aromatic plant from which essential oils are extracted.

Tourist sights

Worth seeing is the Lintianshan Forestry Park ( 林田山 林業 文化 ), where there was an important forestry center in Taiwan during the Japanese rule and later during the Republic of China, which had a population of more than 2,000 in its heyday. This was one of the four major forestry centers in Taiwan - alongside the centers in Alishan , Basianshan (in the Heping (Taichung) district ), and Taipingshan . Logging ceased after 1991, but old houses and rail systems can still be viewed. Otherwise, the relatively untouched nature of Wanrong is a tourist attraction, although the region has so far been little developed for tourism. There are numerous hot springs in Wanrong, such as the Hongye hot springs ( 紅葉 溫泉 , location ). At an altitude of 2980 meters, near the border with the Nantou district, there is the Bunte See ( 七彩湖 , Qīcǎi hú ), a small high mountain lake ( Lage ).

  • Hongye Hot Springs

Web links

Commons : Wanrong  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 支 亞 干 （萬榮． 平林） 遺址 (Zhiyagan (Wanrong • Pinglin) Site).花蓮 縣 文化局 (Hualien County Cultural Bureau), February 7, 2017, accessed July 12, 2018 (Chinese).
  2. ^ Prehistoric jade processing zone to be protected. Taiwan Today, May 7, 2010; accessed July 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Hung HC, Iizuka Y, Bellwood P, Nguyen KD, Bellina B, Silapanth P, Dizon E, Santiago R, Datan I, Manton JH: Ancient jades map 3,000 years of prehistoric exchange in Southeast Asia . In: Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA . tape 104 , no. 50 , December 11, 2007, p. 19745–19750 , doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0707304104 (English).
  4. ↑ Katharine Sanderson: Jade and language traveled together . In: Nature . November 19, 2007, doi : 10.1038 / news.2007.268 (English).
  5. ↑ 各村 簡介 ("Introduction to the Villages"). Wanrong website, accessed July 10, 2018 (Chinese).
  6. ↑ 行政 區域 (administration area). Wanrong website, accessed July 10, 2018 (Chinese).
  7. ↑ 原住民 戶數 及 人數 Households and Persons of Indigenous People. (xls) Taiwan Ministry of the Interior, accessed May 19, 2018 (Chinese / English).
  8. ↑ 農 特 產品 介紹 (箭 竹筍) ("Introduction to the individual agricultural products (bamboo shoots)"). Wanrong website, accessed July 10, 2018 (Chinese).
  9. ↑ 蕗 蕎 ("Lùqiáo"). Wanrong website, accessed July 10, 2018 (Chinese).
  10. ↑ 我 不是 韭菜 也不 是 蒜 ， 我 是 「蕗 蕎」 (“I am not a leek or garlic, I am 'Luqiao'”). (pdf) 花蓮 區 農業 專 訊 第九 十八 期 / 2016. 12 月 號 (Hualien Agricultural News, December 2016, No. 98), accessed July 10, 2018 (Chinese).
  11. ↑ 山 蘇 ("Shansu"). Wanrong website, accessed July 10, 2018 (Chinese).
  12. ^ Ian Bartholomew: Ferns on your plate. Taipei Times, January 9, 2016, accessed April 5, 2018 .
  13. ↑ 山 胡椒 ("mountain pepper"). Retrieved July 10, 2018 (Chinese, English).
  14. ↑ 山 胡椒. Endemic Species Research Institute - Taiwan Wild Plant Database, accessed July 10, 2018 (Chinese, English).
  15. ↑ Lintian Mountain Forestry Center.花 東 縱 谷 國家 風景區 (Huatung Valley National Landscape Area), accessed July 10, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Wanrong Township.花 東 縱 谷 國家 風景區 (Huatung Valley National Landscape Area), accessed on July 10, 2018 (English).