清臺灣巡撫衙門舊址碑 - Section 1

Taiwan was established as a province in the thirteenth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty. Liu Mingchuan was the first governor. In addition to building the governor’s Yamen (like today’s Presidential Office) near Yanping South Road and Wuchang Street, he also built the government envoy Siyamen near Zhongshan Hall. Like today’s Executive Yuan), it was the highest administrative organ in Taiwan at that time. It was mainly in charge of money, food, military, and civil affairs. Its chief was called the chief ambassador, commonly known as "Fang Bo." --------------------------------------- The governor's office of Taiwan was the highest-ranking government office in Taiwan in the Qing Dynasty, facing the neighboring imperial mission station. The original site is located on the left side of today's Zhongshan Hall, behind the bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen, and near the Taipei City Government Police Station. According to the records of the stone stele at the old site, Liu Mingchuan chose to build the provincial capital of Taiwan at Qiaozaitou, which was moved to the north during the period of Taiwan governor (now Taichung City). Before completion, Liu Mingchuan continued to stay as governor built at the intersection of Yanping South Road and Wuchang Street in Taipei. Yamen, so Yanping South Road was formerly known as Futai Street, so that the "Daihe Town Mansion" built on Yanping South Road during the Japanese Occupation Period was crowned as Taipei's Futai Street Mansion by later generations. Later governor Shao Youlian moved the provincial capital from the provincial capital under construction to Taipei Prefecture. The governor’s office was built in Chengenmen at a cost of 57,653 silver dollars. After two years of completion, it was divided into two civil and military departments. It was a magnificent official office in Taiwan. Of the crown. -- Wikipedia

History Tour, Qing Dynasty Taiwan Governor Yamen old site stele, respectfully read the inscription, history asleep, time awake. Wikipedia: Taiwan Governor Yamen Taiwan ’s governor ’s office is the highest-ranking office in Taiwan in the Qing Dynasty, and it faces the neighboring Taiwan ’s administrative bureau chief, Shi Yamen. The original site is located on the left side of today's Zhongshan Hall, behind the bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen, and near the Taipei City Government Police Station is the "Qing Taiwan Governor Yamen Old Site" stone monument. Former governors of Taiwan after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty (Only ten years since Taiwan was established). Liu Mingchuan (the first governor): September 10, 1885 – February 27, 1891 Shen Yingkui (represented by the governor of Taiwan as governor): April 28, 1891 – October 15, 1891 Shao Youlian (second governor): October 16, 1891 – September 15, 1894 Tang Jingsong (third and last governor): September 16, 1894 – March 23, 1895

[Taiwan Jiyou] The place of birth No. 32 More than 50 years ago, it was scary. It has been more than 50 years. I was born in a hospital on Beijing West Road. Although the hospital was only in a hall, it was the famous Sixth People's Hospital in Shanghai. The place became a branch of Shanghai Children's Hospital - Shanghai Children's Health Center. My father, who was also born in Shanghai, has an interesting story. That is my grandfather. He likes medicine in his spare time, and he has a combination of Chinese and Western. He has read a lot of medical books, some of which I have seen when I was a child. After my grandmother became pregnant with my father, I purchased a complete set of medical equipment for gynecological birth delivery from my grandfather, and I was thinking of becoming an amateur birth doctor... Fortunately, at the critical time, when the servant found the master and said that grandma was going to "start", my grandfather's first reaction was to call the hospital to get ready, and then take the grandmother to the hospital with the driver... It didn't take a second. Hesitating, it's a pity that my grandmother was worried for more than nine months. My grandfather was also born in Shanghai, but I don't know where he was born in Shanghai, and I guess my father doesn't know either. Was it at home? Still in the hospital? Everyone's favorite saying about Shanghai people is "A few generations back, who is a Shanghainese?" This sentence has also become a paragraph in "Myth of Love". However, I am a Shanghainese with three generations of Shanghainese. However, my great-grandfather, he was not born in Shanghai, I not only know which city he was born in, I even know which specific location he was born in. I was in Taipei and first went to Chung Cheng Tang. Zhongzheng Hall occupies a large area. The east, south and north sides of the entire park are surrounded by white walls with blue glazed tile roofs. There are windows on the walls, and the shapes are different. At the corners of the wall, there are corner pavilions, Dazhong Gate in the north and Daxiao Gate in the south, all three-hole archway-style buildings covered with glazed tiles of the same color. There is no wall on the west side, connected to the Memorial Square, and there is a tunnel for vehicles to avoid the lane separating the Zhongzheng Hall and the Memorial Square. The middle of the wall is the Zhongzheng Hall. No matter which side you walk in, you have to walk a lot. Zhongzheng Hall is a square building with an octagonal top that is a bit like the dome of the Temple of Heaven. It has a blue glazed tile roof with double eaves and a white square building at the bottom. It is a huge and unsightly building. Fortunately, when I went, the whole building was surrounded by scaffolding. Get up, it won't be so ugly. The entire building is built on a raised platform, with imperial roads on all sides and a huge national emblem of the blue sky and white sun. Zhongzheng Hall is naturally a commemoration of Chiang Kai-shek. The design of the blue and white combination is a metaphor for the blue sky and white sun. However, when Chen Shui-bian was in power, he not only took down the plaque of "Zhongzheng Hall", but replaced it with "National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall". , also removed the bronze statue of Zhongzheng, and the entire imperial road was also covered with wild lily pattern canvas. The West Square is an open square without walls. There is a five-hole archway at the entrance. It used to have the words "Dazhongzhizheng" on it, but it was also replaced by the four words "Freedom Square", and the name was changed from "Chiang Zheng Memorial Square". Changed to "Freedom Square". A year later, Ma Ying-jeou came to power in May 2007. In August, the relevant matters were abolished, and the plaque was officially put back on the Zhongzheng Hall in the following year. However, in May 2018, the Tsai government facilitated the "Committee for Promoting Transitional Justice." In September 2021, the committee proposed a transformation plan, which is expected to change the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall into a "Reflection on Authoritarian History Park". It's quite frustrating! Go west from Zhongzheng Hall, walk along Guiyang Road, pass the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Jie Shou Park, the latter has the Taipei 228 Memorial and the White Terrorist Political Victims Memorial, then walk north along a section of Chongqing South Road, pass the Presidential Palace, and then follow Go west on Baoqing Road, and go north to Yanping South Road to the end, which is Zhongshan Hall. This Zhongshan Hall is incredible. It was called the Taipei Public Hall at the time. The surrender ceremony of the Japanese army to the Allies in World War II was held here in 1945 (Taiwan Theater), and the "Sino-US Mutual Defense Treaty" in 1954 was also signed here. The Zhongshan Hall was built by the Japanese. They demolished the Taiwan Governor's Yamen in 1932 and built the Zhongshan Hall here. Today, on the left side of the Zhongshan Hall and behind the bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen, there is a stone tablet "the former site of the Qing Taiwan Governor's Yamen". I found my great-grandfather's birthplace, oh no, the birthplace, that's where he was born. On May 9, 1891, the seventeenth year of Emperor Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Shao Youlian was transferred from Hunan Governor and Hunan Admiral to Taiwan Governor, and moved the Taiwan House that Liu Chuanming started to build in Qiaozaitou, Changhua County to Taipei City, and Taipei became the provincial capital. At the same time, he invited the court to build the Taiwan Governor's Yamen here, costing 57,653 silver dollars, becoming the crown of Taiwan's official halls. It was this move that laid the foundation for Taiwan's future development direction of emphasizing the North over the South, until now. The reason is actually very simple. Shao Youlian's home is in Shanghai, and Taipei is much closer to Shanghai than Changhua. Shao Youlian is from Yuyao, why is his home in Shanghai? Because he once did the Shanghai Dao (Su Song Tai Dao) Taoist platform! I settled my home in Shanghai. When he was a Shanghai Taoist, he did one of the most influential things in history. He helped Li Hongzhang, who later became an in-law, to crush Hu Xueyan, a businessman with a red top Said that "silver is better than white rice, and the root of money is the root of life", so Shao Youlian delayed the payment of Hu Xueyan's payment by 20 days, which broke Hu Xueyan's capital chain, and finally caused the financial turmoil of 1883, which was the most influential time in China in the 19th century. In addition to Shanghai Daotai, Taiwan governor, Hunan governor and admiral, he has also served as an inspector in Henan, an imperial envoy to Russia, and a plenipotentiary minister to Japan. He was a first-rank official, a true first-rank officer, and he was one more level higher than his father Shao Can's first-rank water transport governor. By the way, he has not only served as the number one leader of Taiwan, but two. When Taiwan was still under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, he served as Taiwan's political envoy, so when he became Taiwan's governor, he was promoted to official position and revisited his old place. . To this day, there is still a plaque written by him in Taiwan, with the words "Zhudou Tongrong", which is currently preserved in the Zhonghun Hall in Daxi District, Taoyuan City, to honor the victims of the original (resident) Han (human) conflict. Hope Aboriginal people and Hokkien Han people can eliminate hostility and coexist peacefully. What does this have to do with my great grandfather? Because he is Shao Youlian's son, it is said that he was born in Taipei. According to the chronology, Shao Youlian should have been born in Taiwan's chief envoy. At that time, there was no western-style hospital, so he was naturally born at home - that is, the Taiwan chief envoy. , that is, the later Taiwan Governor Yamen.