蓮花池舊址碑

History of the rise and fall of the Wanhua area from the Qing leader to the Japanese rule.

The earthquake described by Yu Yonghe caused a piece of land to suddenly fall into the water, perhaps referring to the vicinity of the island.

The main entrance of Laosong National School is on the north side of Guilin Road. Laosong’s school song began with “The Lotus Pond, Standing School Hall”. Later, the “Lianhuachi Site Map”, which was erected at the entrance of the Taipei Museum, provided the answer. More than three hundred years ago, the Great Northern River Earthquake, the Tamsui River exit was sealed, forming a barrier lake (Kangxi Taipei Lake). Two years later (1696), Yu Yonghe came to Taiwan to collect sulfur, and took a boat into Guandu. He saw that "the water was suddenly wide and the lake was a big lake, and there was no end to it." At that time, the entire Taipei Basin was under the water. After several decades, the lake gradually disappeared, and only some people came in to open up. However, there are still several large pools left in the low-lying areas. 艋舺 Lotus Pond is located in the north of Guilin Road, east of Kangding Road, south of Zushi Temple. The pool surface is vast, the lotus leaves in the pool are full of life, the fish and ducks leap, the poolside has a grass pavilion, and there is a literary man Huang Zhongli. The "return" amount. In 1886, Hanlin Tsaijintai visited here and made the first seven (next to the lotus pondside with Luhan): "The year has come to travel all over the world, and a smile meets each other. Tonight, you can see the lotus in the moon." Scholars are often poetry here. In the Japanese era, the pool gradually dried up and began to fill the soil. The old Songgong school was built on the bank of the old pool.