 Taiwan
Lantern Festival.
The Taiwan Lantern Festival is being held in Chung
Hsing New Village, Nantou this year and you know what
else is interesting there? We don��t either. So Michael
and I are going to see if we can excavate some stories.
Because it��s a quiet little town with lots of trees
along the roads, it��s a great place for bike riding.
At the time there were only farm roads here. When
Mr Hsieh Tung-min��s jeep entourage got here, they
were stopped by a river. They got out of the jeep
and rested underneath this Bishop tree. A few of them
looked around and said, ��This is a good place. Let��s
move here.�� In 1946 when Chiang Kai-shek��s regime
retreated from China and came to Taiwan, they went
to Taipei of course. Later Mr. Chiang Kai-shek said,
��What if the Chinese Communists attack Taipei? The
entire regime will collapse.��
Hsieh was the Secretary General of the Taiwan Provincial
Government and later became the Vice President of
Taiwan. With the financial support of the US government
the Taiwan provincial government was moved here and
housing was built for its thousands of employees.
These old houses and streets are now one of the attractions
of Chung Hsing New Village.
If you look around here, you can see the stamp of
America. Here it��s the 1960��s and these people come
here and they have a large chunk of money, a clean
slate of land that they can do anything they want
with. And what do they build? An American suburb.
You can see how this idea of America shapes the way
Taiwan sees itself. And so we American are always
shaking our heads going, ��Why are you always copying
our worst habits?��
You know, I think I really like Zhongxing Village.
It��s like time traveling.
It is. It��s a piece of a piece of Taiwan history and
it��s really nice to jog around and cycle through.
And I think it really brings back childhood memories
of when we were living in Mountain View.
Oh, really? It is like an American suburb here. But
it��s also such an interesting piece of history. What
they need is some development here, bed and breakfasts
and maybe some really classy restaurants so people
would come visit and experience this. It��s a world
to itself.
The 2014 Taiwan Lantern Festival in Chung Hsing Village
takes place from February 14th to the 23rd.
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