Peace Sculpture

A place that hides a historical landmark

228 Historic archways and precious cultural relics in the park!

Before reading the historical allusions, I always thought it was a kind of arch decoration like the Japanese bird house; I read the description of the stone tablet, so that I can better understand the allusions!

It is located on the north side of the twenty-eighth peace park. With the entrance of the Taiwan Museum facing the front, as you go along the road on your left you will find "Kwanghwa Takayo" like a torii of the four-story pillar. There was an explanatory monument on the ground near the pillar as "Third Class Historic Site". After losing her husband at the age of 28, she seems to have been built by my son to honor Mr. Hwang who kept his chastity.

The Huang Family's Festival of Filial Piety has four pillars, three openings and a stone archway with two floors on both sides and three floors in the middle. On the front of the large square, there is a drum-shaped cross-section, with its dragon head hoop, "Shuanglong grabbing the bead", "Double phoenix playing with the bead" and other sculptures. On the four sides, words such as "chess", "qin", "book" and "painting" are written. Made of blue bucket stone and white granite, it symbolizes the meaning of "innocence and whiteness".

Level three monuments!

Quote from Wikipedia: ? Huang Lianniang was born in Jiaqing period. At the age of 16, she married Wang Jialin, one year older than her in Jinjiang County, Quanzhou Prefecture, as his wife, and gave birth to Wang Tianxi. After Wang Jialin followed his father to Taiwan for business, he left his wife at home to serve the elderly and chronically ill mother-in-law. ? Huang Dianniang swore to observe the festival when her 28-year-old husband died, and then took her children to Taiwan to join her father-in-law. His son Wang Tianxi will run Wang Yixing Xingxing in Manga in the future, and he will buy land in Taipei in the name of burial for the poor. He owns the present Presidential Palace, Taipei Hotel, Guting Junior High School, Guiyang Street, Kunming Street, Zhonghua Road Section 2 and Shuiyuan Road. From time to time, he collected large amounts of rent under the name of "Mangjia Tongrentang", and became the Wang family of the big landlord Mengjia who is still wealthy today. In the 9th year of Tongzhi (1870), Huang Xianniang was awarded 30 taels of gold at the age of 51 as a commendation. That year, Tanshui Tongzhi Chen Peigui included the story of Huang Tanniang in the compilation of "Tasika Department Records". ? After Huang Dianniang passed away in seventy years, the old man recommended to the government the deeds of filial piety and called her "Huang Duanyi". In the eighth year of Guangxu (1882), Huang's Festival Xiaofang was erected on Dongmen Street (now Xinyi Road), Dongmen, Taipei City. It was the first chastity memorial in Taipei to commend women's chastity. ?Paid information: free to visit ?Other additions: 1. Attached toilet ?. (In the 228 Park) 2. Built in the eighth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1882), Taipei’s earliest Jie Xiao Fang was listed as a "Taipei City Cultural Asset", and it is also a rare century-old monument. ?Visit time: 2021/03/15

Built in 1882, Huangshijie Xiaofang has undergone 3 demolitions, 5 moves and 3 reorganizations since it was demolished in 1901 due to urban corrections: 1. Move after the 1st demolition: Because the urban area was planned to be the official residence of the secretary of the Taiwan Governor's Office, the demolition was contracted by the Taipei County Authority in March 1901, and the parts and accessories were moved to the Taipei County Office for temporary storage. set up; 2. Reorganization after the 2nd move: After the expenses are paid by the Taiwan Governor's Office, the Civil Engineering Bureau of the Governor's Office is responsible for the reorganization. After CE June 1906, it was relocated to Fuzhong Street 6-chome, which is today's 228 Park in the northwest corner of the reorganization; 3. Move and reorganize after the third dismantling: between November 1911 CE and CE 1914, dismantling and moving to Fuzhong Street 7-chome, which is the northeast corner of the new park, is still to be confirmed. The reason for relocating the building to the northeast corner of the new park may be because it affected the new construction of the Memorial Museum, or to reorganize the overall landscape of the northern section of the new park. Compared with the original appearance, a total of 24 components were damaged or lost due to the first three dismantling moves; 4. Move after the 4th dismantling: In CE March 1990, due to the Taipei MRT Danshui Line National Taiwan University Hospital Station project, the Jiexiaofang was dismantled and moved to the Confucius Temple for a temporary location, but it was not established, and the funds were supported by the Taipei City Government; 5. Reorganization after the 5th move: CE moved to the current site on October 30, 1997, made 17 new components and completed the reorganization. CE In September 2017, 1 piece of concave corner was added, and 4 sets of new railings were made. It has been confirmed that the archway was built first (1882) and then the ancestral temple (1895). The temple of filial piety has not yet been opened, that is, it was requisitioned by the Japanese army as a warehouse after Taiwan was ceded to Japan. In 1900, CE was planned as the official residence of the secretary of the Taiwan Governor's Office due to urban planning. The land, the owner Wang family donated the land in CE 1901 and demolished it. With the official in-principle approval, the Wang family planned to rebuild the Jiexiao Temple in the Taipei Park, but the Taipei Office of the local government did not approve it because of the small size of the park and the different atmosphere. The land was included in the urban planning road and it was not feasible. Finally, in CE 1904, it obtained the permission of the Taiwan Governor's Office and lent the official land to rebuild it in Yuanshan Park. CE 1906 was completed. The temple has disappeared, and its remnants are hard to find at the scene. (Lin Yihong, 2022 "Re-examination of Tangible Cultural Assets Near the Taiwan Museum (1): Huang's Jiexiaofang and Jiexiao Temple", p.23-24)