Historical spots, the survival traces and historical symbols of our ancients,
are full of life wisdom and immortal history; they are the most valuable historical
assets of human and has been regarded as non-replaced cultural treasury. Chiayi
had been developed quite earlier, with its civilization and prosperous resources,
there should have many historical spots left in Chiayi. Nevertheless, for the
sake of earthquakes and war disasters, houses were destroyed and decayed. At
the end of Japanese ruling time, in order to promote emperor-civilian policy,
Shiyenchuan Tienshaoping ordered to abolish 63 temples in the city, and only
Chenhuang temple, Dichung temple, and Shen temple were survived. Because of
that, the temples had been nearly destroyed, which was the casualty of Chiayi
city.
In 1982, the government regulated preservation law of cultural assets, wishing
to maintain and reserve historical spots, and the Domestic Affairs then authorized
“Chiayi Chenhuang temple”, “Wangzumu Sutaifu tomb”, and “Pachiang xi Yitu” the
three places as the third-level historical spots. Until May 1997, the government
modified the regulations and gave the county and city government rights to inspect
and authorize historical spots. After inspection and evaluation, Chiayi has added
“Chiyi Jenwu temple”, “Chiayi forest club”, “Ali Mountain Railroad Peimen Post”,
“Subsidiary mansion of the original Chiayi temple”, “the Public Sales Board of
Chiayi Branch”, “Chiayi Shu Chou Ancients Temple”, “Chiayi Railway Station”,
etc., as historical spots of the city. On June 6, 2002, the city government authorized
“Chiayi Old Prison” as municipal historical spot, there are 11 historical spots
as a total in Chiayi city.
- Chiayi Chenhuang temple – Chenhuang temple, constructed
and repaired by the well-known artisan Jingmu Wang,
is a temple with delicate wooden sculpture.
- Wangzumu Sutaifu tomb – an ancient tomb that
is related to Delu Wang, Marine Supervisor of the
Ching dynasty.
- Pachiang xi Yitu – one of the little remaining
Yitu stele in Taiwan.
- Chiyi Jenwu temple – an ancient temple with fine
and delicate wooden and stone sculptures.
- Chiayi forest club (guests and visitors entertaining
place of Ali Mountain) – the wooden western-styled
building has unique characteristics.
- Ali Mountain Railroad Peimen Post – a wooden
and small-scale railway station.
- Chiayi Railway Station – an eclecticism architecture
of 1930, its exterior used military brown bricks.
- Subsidiary mansion of the original Chiayi temple
– a typical Japanese wooden architecture, with
fine wooden carving.
- The Public Sales Board of Chiayi Branch – It
is a mature architecture that combined with steel
and concrete, presenting the double characteristics
of succinct & lively features of modern architecture
and bricks era, which contains arts values of architecture.
- Chiayi Shu Chou Ancients Temple – It is a rarely
seen architecture that has transformed from a civilian
house into a temple. With typical Mingnan ChuangChou-styled
feature, the architecture's condition is well preserved.
- Chiayi Old Prison – In terms of historical meaning,
it is an important architecture presenting the
prison development at the time when Japan ruled
Taiwan; beside, the architecture demonstrated close
development relationship with Yuanchia district
of China. In terms of architecture arts, it is
one of the only two remaining Japanese peninsula-styled
architectures in the world. It was made of Ali
Mountain woods that particularly demonstrates unique
and special historical meaning.
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