 Jiji
Today we��re in Jiji, Nantou County, and the theme
of this trip is ��tunnels.��
To get to Jiji, you can take a train. The Jiji line
starts at Ershui Station, which is in Changhua. You
can pay by tagging on and off with an Easycard or
iPass.
Railroads in the very beginning were built to transport
not people, but resources. The Jiji branch line was
first built for transporting sugar canes, then it
was widened for camphor, bananas and building materials
for a dam in the 1930��s during the Japanese occupation.
The dam at Sun Moon Lake was built to generate electricity,
and the scale of the construction was huge and the
local office anticipated that the emperor would visit,
so they built a station house for this stop on the
railroad.
This is Jiji��s famous ��green tunnel,�� on both sides
of the road are camphor trees. These were planted
in 1940 when Japan celebrated the 2,600 year of its
founding. Each household was asked to plant three
trees, and camphor being the valuable and native resource
that it is, was the tree of choice for Jiji residents.
At the stop after Jiji, you��ll find the Shuili Snake
Kiln, our other tunnel.
Because from far away it looks like a snake, that
seems to have just had a feast, people called this
kind of kiln a ��snake kiln.�� Another reason for the
name is, in Taiwanese the counter for long objects
has the same sound as ��snake,�� and the counter word
later became mixed with the reptile and the name stuck.
Jiji might not sound like much. But it's not just
a small town with lots of banana snacks. It��s amazing
culturally and historically. I had so much fun learning
about what camphor trees were used for, how the station
house was built, why it was built and about the snake
kiln and the people it served. The green tunnel is
beautiful and the stories are so interesting. You
should come!
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