LIOUJIA District Office, Tainan City

Wushanto Huching Resort Hotel combines the concepts of healthy living, conference holidays, ecological education, and electronic commerce to create an internal space planned with information technology, people, and culture in mind. Parking spaces are conveniently available, with all the workers having received professional training. Staying here, you will be pampered and treated with the utmost respect. The resort has the following amenities: Chinese restaurants, barbeque gardens, a cocktail bar, a tandem bicycle area, a kite area, a rainforest-inspired garden, and a KTV. There is also a lobby, an agricultural specialty shop, a business center, a customer service center, and lounges. This hotel is the best place to host guests, reward employees, and hold meetings. The Wushantou Reservoir is surrounded by beautiful scenery and the aerial view reveals a zigzag shoreline, also referred to as the Coral Lake.

If you walk 5-10 minutes west from Linfongying Train Station, you will be able to see a lotus flower field. The owner of the field, Dr. Senjin Lin, after breeding and growing them for several years, has created over 100 different kinds of lotus flowers, which bloom at various times but can be seen throughout all four seasons for free. You can also visit the Lotus Flower Museum to learn more about the lotus flower and the ecology of its environment.

Built during the Showa period (1933), the building is made of wood in the traditional appearance of train stations from the era of Japanese administration. On the outside, the walls have fish scales patterns with the base adopting a granolithic finish. It also has a traditional waiting area, which hasn’t changed in the last eighty years. The station still retains its early appearance, with its quaint and elegant style reminiscent of the ancient times.

Every year on May 8th at 2 pm, Jianan’s Agricultural Water Conservation Commission holds a memorial service at the beautiful Coral Lake for the Jianan Canal Engineers, Mr. and Mrs. Hatta Yoichi. Hatta Yoichi was born in 1886 in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. In 1917, he was appointed to begin the plans for the Jianan Irrigation Waterways. From 1920 to 1930, he supervised the investigation for the irrigation work, as well as its planning and designing. He finished the first dam using the Semi-hydraulic Fill technique, which came to be nicknamed after him, in addition to the construction of the irrigation system. Wushantou Reservoir (also known as Coral Lake) was the largest reservoir in Asia at the time of its completion.) However, on May 8, 1942, the ship Hatta Yoichi was on was attacked by an American submarine and the ship sank in the East Sea (Sea of Japan). Jianan’s Agricultural Water Conservation Commission designed a memorial next to the bronze statue commemorating both Hatta Yoichi and his wife. The waterway’s opening date was set for May 8, also in memory of its designer. The environment surrounding the reservoir is beautiful. You can choose to stay in a vast camping area, or you can live in a neighboring hotel, which provides authentic dishes native to the region. 

The Industrial Technology Research Institute’s southern branch campus opened on October 14, 2005, and cooperated with Hsinchu’s main branch by using innovative technology and services, as well as working with the entire area’s industrial development to help upgrade southern Taiwan’s industry as a whole. Lioujia’s branch next to the Wushantou Reservoir has beautiful scenery, and emphasises on open-mindedness, participation, and interaction. Currently, they are developing six central core technologies with the intention of competing with the top international research centers, as well as working with other industries while the research teams and the Ministry of Economic Affairs help the business succeed in southern Taiwan.   The southern branch campus contains centers focusing on domestic Internet, microsystems, laser applications, nanoparticles and membrane applications for humans, and technological treatments. In each category, there has been rapid progress and the research and technology in each field is moving at a steady pace. The southern branch, under the support of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Southern Industrial Joint Experimental Circular Structure Project, invested 75 million NTD into developing microsystems, materials and laser laboratories, as well as completing an Action Wireless Module Experimental Verification Platform, and a Micro Actuator Sensing Element Design and Analysis Platform. They also plan to build a CMOS MEMS design/ micro electrical passive and active elements/ modules and materials with unique abilities in an inspection environment, to complement the existing micro electrical-related equipments..   On the other hand, by using southern Taiwan’s resource sharing center as a platform and combining seven southern universities (National Cheng Kung University, National Sun Yat-sen University, National Chung Cheng University, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, National Chinyi University of Technology), close to 400 pieces of equipment have been completed as the preliminary framework of the no barriers theoretical joint laboratory of microsystems, lasers, and other materials. The institute then combined the actual and theoretical laboratories in order to maximise the potential of the research equipments in southern Taiwan.

Chihshan Longhu Temple is a famous historical temple. Every year, the worshipping festival begins five or six days prior to February 19, but the highlights won’t happen until the 17th, 18th, and on the weekends during the festival. On February 18th through the 20th, all 12 villages take turns hosting the event to celebrate Buddha’s birthday. The current route for the guests is: Enter Lioujia from the mountain entrance and exit through Guantian after praying in order to avoid congestion among the crowds. Chihshan Longhu Temple is a famous historic temple with 300 years of history. According to legend, in the early years of Cing Emperor Kangsi’s reign, the southern region suffered large floods. In the present district of Yongkang Jhouzaiwei (now Anping Port tributaries), a blue whetstone stone was found that looked similar to the goddess Guanyin. It was said that the stone had floated all the way from Nanhai Putuo Mountain, but it was too heavy for people to move. At the time, a man named Hu Jiandao who lives at Chihshan Fort heard about the stone while he was transporting sugar. He went to worship the stone and prayed that Guanyin Bodhisattva would grant his wish that the stone could be moved to Chihshan Fort to be worshipped. When he attempted to pick the stone up, he was able to easily lift it onto a cart as it felt as light as a feather. As soon as he returned to Longhu Village, the stone immediately became as immobile as a mountain. Through divination it was determined that it was Buddha’s wishes that the stone remained there and so it became a temple. Legend also says that Koxinga’s counselor Chen Yonghua built the temple to become the headquarters for the Heaven and Earth Society. The building was restored many times, with the last restoration in 1972. Every year, from New Year’s Day to the 9th day of the New Year, a religious ceremony— Worship 10,000 Buddhas, is held. Since the Chihshan Longhu Temple is viewed as a legitimate Buddhist temple, there has been a never-ending stream of Buddhist worshippers.