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Daxi Bridge Taoyuan Taiwan
Traveling Beautiful Taiwan on Motorbike (1800 KM) around the whole Island!
So we'd gone through those cities (8 days on motorbikes):
Before we'd gone on motorbikes, we enjoyed 2 days in the Capital city Taipei! (Foodmarket, Cats Caffe, Nightlife). Specific places and actions: street like Ximen Night Market, played claw games and visited popular Michelin Star restaurant with typical food.
Now it's the plan for the whole trip 1800 km:
Day 1: Taichung to Yilan (270 km) - Mostly quiet roads when out of Taichung, down to beautiful countryside roads, mountains roads for most of it, up to 1500m.
The way: Route- 3, right onto 124 at Shitan to Nanzhuang. Back onto 3 Guanxi, right onto 118, right onto 7.
Famous stops: Kuhua Pong Waterfall, Ronghua Dam, Yixing Suspension bridge, Xiaowulai Falls, Baling (Youling Falls, Shuangfeng Waterfall) Natural Hot springs, Kavalan Brewery.
Price for accommodation: TWD 2100 for 1 room, 3 Double beds, Buffet Breakfast at Hsing Tsuan Inn,.
Day 2: Yilan to Renai Township (160km) - Mostly high valley, winding mountain roads. Up to 3500m at its peak.
Stops- Lanyang Museum, Waiao Beach, Jim & Dad’s Brewery, Wuling farm, Cingjing farm.
The way: Direction- 191 to Waiao, 2 along the coast, right onto 7, 131 at Lishan onto 89 to Cingjing.
The accommodation price - TWD 4900 for 2 double beds & 2 single beds, 2-floor bungalow, breakfast included at Cingjing Hanging Garden & Resort.
Day 3: Renai to Hualien (160KM) - Initially a steep rise to a peak of the mountain and then 100km following a huge valley down into Taroko Gorge. The ride was amazing!
Stops- Henshuahan Peak Mountains, Bilu Giant Tree, Luishui Wenshan Trail, Baiyang Trail, Xiangde Temple, Tunnel of 9 turns, Changchun Shrine, Qingshui Cliffs, Hualien Nighmarket.
The accommodation price - TWD 1900 for 2 room, 5 beds, breakfast at Phoenix Hostel.
Day 4: Hualien to Taitung (170KM) - This is a straightforward coastal drive with not too much elevation.
Stops - Jiqi Beach, Shipping Scenic Area, Baxiandong Archaeological Site, Sanxiantai Bridge, Dulan surf village, Tropic of Cancer marker, Taitung Old Street
Hiking Old Zhuliu Train.
The way - Directions- 11 to Taitung.
The accommodation price - TWD 2550 for 2 twin rooms, 1 single room at Genuinn.
Day 5: Taitung to Kenting (130KM) Kenting has some tropical beaches and plenty happening all the time.
Stops- Xuhai Grassland Trail, Alangyi Historic Trail, fengchuisha Cliffs, Southern Tip, Nightmarket, tropical beaches!
The way - Directions- 9 South, left onto 199, left onto 199B, right on 26, onto 200, left 200b, to 26 all around.
The accommodation price - TWD 3200 for Private Cabin, 4 double beds, 1 sofa at Dajenshan Chalet.
Day 6: Kenting to Chaiyi (250km) - The middle section of this ride is in a built-up area and isn’t enjoyable. The last section follows a huge man-made reservoir and is a beautiful road.
Stops- Tiantai Mountain temple, Shiba Luoho Mountain, Duonagao Suspension Bridge, Luigui Buddha, Tsengwen Resevoir.
The way - Directions- 1 North to 185, onto 27, left onto 20, turn right onto 3, North to Chaiyi.
The accommodation price - TWD 2850 for 2 Twin rooms & 1 single room, buffet breakfast at Back Home Hotel.
Day 7: Chaiyi to Taichung (240KM) - the mountain road, through Alishan National Park, on to Sun Moon Lake and in the back road to Taichung.
Stops- Fenqihu Village, Alishan National Park, Dong Pu scenic area, longest suspension bridge, Sun Moon Lake, cable car, hill tribe, Big Buddha, Xiannu Waterfall.
The way - Directions- 159B, left 169 to Fenqihu, double back left onto 18, uphill., onto 21, hard right 16, 63b, on home
Indoor Resort in Arayat Pampanga
Indoor Resort in Arayat Pampanga
Finding Top 3 Hakka food for cyclists on Romantic Route 3 | 騎上浪漫台三線尋找最適合單車騎士的客家美食
So I brought a super talented French Photographer and Filmmaker, Victor, to cycle a route I was longing for: the Romantic Route 3. While enjoying the incredible scenery along the way, we visited a bunch of Hakka townships and experienced a whole lot of Hakka food. If you are looking for a cycling route in the west of Taiwan, I highly recommend this one. Not so much traffic, great food, and you get to immerse yourself in Hakka culture.
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Information on Romantic Route 3 and the art festival:
The route we take:
Day 1: Taipei to Longtan
Day 2: Longtan to Beipu
Day 3: Beipu to Shitan
Day 4: Shitan to Fengyuan
The food we tried and loved
Brown sugar shaved ice:
Grass jelly:
Leicha (pounded tea):
Hakka style noodles:
Tsaibao (vegetable bun):
Jixia Village Tiger Boxing
Jixia village is located in Gantang countryside, Pingnan county, Ningde prefecture, Fujian province.
Huzun Quan has been practiced in Jixia village since at least the mid 18th century. However the exact period it started is not known.
It is often said that general Gan Guobao practiced this art as a child in the village. While he was known for his martial arts skills as well as his tiger paintings, this contradicts the traditions that Hu Zun Quan was taught to the Gan clan by Zheng Yuanhui who is alternately said to be the child or successor of either Zheng Li of the Yongchun white crane school or (much more likely) of Zheng Dengguang of the Yongtai Hu Zun Quan school.
Either way this would mean that at the earliest it would not have arrived in the village until after Gan Guobao was already a skilled martial artists and famous general.
There is another version which says that Gan Guobao brought Zheng Yuanhui in order to have him teach his martial arts to his children, grandchildren and other villagers.
Although it is more likely that Hu Zun Quan did not arrive until after his period.
Either way it is clear that the village has a long martial tradition and that martial arts were a daily part of village life even before the arrival of Hu Zun Quan in the village.
Jixia is an ancient mountain village which was founded by the Gan family.
During the early Qing dynasty it was home to the famous military general Gan Guo Bao ,who passed the imperial military exams in 1729 at the age of 20, and became known for his knowledge and skills in military tactics which made him one of the Qing's greatest generals.
He is also known by the people of the areas he fought in and looked after such as Fujian, Guangdong, and Taiwan as a righteous official who tried to help the local people and for his many selfless acts such as donating his entire years personal salary for relief supplies during a drought.
Besides his fame as a military figure and his skills in archery, horsemanship, he was also a great artist and is probably the most famous as the greatest painter of tiger pictures in Chinese history.
The village was founded by Gan Xikuang in the Ming dynasty (1437).
Howeve Gan family mythology passed down in the village claims that the area was part of the Gan Kingdom who's ruling family took the Gan name and were Feudal lords under the Xia dynasty ruling the area over 4000 years ago. Their branch of the Gan family claims descent from Gan Pan, senior minister of Shang Wudi, founder of the Shang dynasty.
Gan Pan was named because his father, the great doctor of the Shang royal family, dreamed that the gods gave him a stone basin (Pan) to bath in and cleanse himself. That night his mother gave birth to him, so he was named Gan Pan (basin).
(lineage mythology is usually created to make a family seem as illustrious as possible)
Jixia village is a protected ancient city which contains many Ming and Qing dynasty structures.
Because it was located in the mountains it was built to be defended from bandits.
The village is surrounded by a pounded earth wall with a main gate tower dating to 1467 and all approaches from any direction to the village are visible.
Like many old villages the houses are built closely together to create narrow alleyways with many easily defensible choke points.
The village is built on a river which divides it in two and is crossed by two ancient covered bridges, one of which dates to 1702 and the other is of similar age.
The riverside it's self built up with stone walls coming directly upwards out of the water. These are topped by long covered walkways backed by building which form a solid wall behind them.
There are several temples to different gods dating back to the 16th century as well as the Gan family temple dating to 1810.
The estate of Gan Guo Bao is also preserved inside the village as well as the vermillion plaque painted with a gold character 福 Fu (good fortune, happiness, luck, also the Fu in Fujian) which was painted and presented to him by emperor Qianlong in 1769.
Knot (mov. IV) by Ssu-Yu Huang
Fourth movement of Knot --Reborn
World-premiered by National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (NTSO) on May 27, 2017, with Kai-Hsi Fan conducting. This piece was commissioned by the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra in 2016.
Composed for a large scale orchestration plus four percussions, this piece was inspired by the seminal Taiwanese literature Turbid Waters Trilogy and Taiwanese Trilogy by Zhong ZhaoZheng. The series of novels describe the early hard life and persevere mentality of the Hakka people. With virtues of diligence and thrift, they struggled through adversities, crossed foreign boundaries, and constantly challenged themselves. The music expresses the indomitable spirits of the Hakka ancestors and how they again and again untied the “knot” of hardship and difficulty in life, portraying a picture of the Hakka culture and heritage.
Movement IV. Reborn – This movement describes the departure from the time of darkness. Surviving the wars of defending the motherland, the Hakka ancestors finally broke through the shackles and reached the milestone of a brand new era. The music begins with complex rhythms in 8/8 beat. The strings and percussions march on with a steady footsteps. The brass and wood wind instructions progressively build up the harmonies, representing the dawn of the new era. The final movement and the first movement form a contrast and correspond to each other.
Chinese folk religion | Wikipedia audio article
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Chinese folk religion
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Chinese folk religion (Chinese popular religion) or Han folk religion is the religious tradition of the Han Chinese, including veneration of forces of nature and ancestors, exorcism of harmful forces, and a belief in the rational order of nature which can be influenced by human beings and their rulers as well as spirits and gods. Worship is devoted to a multiplicity of gods and immortals (神 shén), who can be deities of phenomena, of human behaviour, or progenitors of lineages. Stories regarding some of these gods are collected into the body of Chinese mythology. By the 11th century (Song period), these practices had been blended with Buddhist ideas of karma (one's own doing) and rebirth, and Taoist teachings about hierarchies of gods, to form the popular religious system which has lasted in many ways until the present day.Chinese religions have a variety of sources, local forms, founder backgrounds, and ritual and philosophical traditions. Despite this diversity, there is a common core that can be summarised as four theological, cosmological, and moral concepts: Tian (天), Heaven, the transcendent source of moral meaning; qi (氣), the breath or energy that animates the universe; jingzu (敬祖), the veneration of ancestors; and bao ying (報應), moral reciprocity; together with two traditional concepts of fate and meaning: ming yun (命運), the personal destiny or burgeoning; and yuan fen (緣分), fateful coincidence, good and bad chances and potential relationships.Yin and yang (陰陽) is the polarity that describes the order of the universe, held in balance by the interaction of principles of growth (shen) and principles of waning (gui), with yang (act) usually preferred over yin (receptiveness) in common religion. Ling (靈), numen or sacred, is the medium of the two states and the inchoate order of creation.Both the present day government of China and the imperial dynasties of the Ming and Qing tolerated village popular religious cults if they bolstered social stability but suppressed or persecuted those that they feared would undermine it. After the fall of the empire in 1911, governments and elites opposed or attempted to eradicate folk religion in order to promote modern values, and many condemned feudal superstition. These conceptions of folk religion began to change in Taiwan in the late 20th century and in mainland China in the 21st. Many scholars now view folk religion in a positive light. In recent times Chinese folk religions are experiencing a revival in both mainland China and Taiwan. Some forms have received official understanding or recognition as a preservation of traditional Chinese culture, such as Mazuism and the Sanyi teaching in Fujian, Huangdi worship, and other forms of local worship, for example the Longwang, Pangu or Caishen worship.
Knot (mov. I) by Ssu-Yu Huang
First movement of Knot -- Furious waves
World-premiered by National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (NTSO) on May 27, 2017, with Kai-Hsi Fan conducting. This piece was commissioned by the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra in 2016.
Composed for a large scale orchestration plus four percussions, this piece was inspired by the seminal Taiwanese literature Turbid Waters Trilogy and Taiwanese Trilogy by Zhong ZhaoZheng. The series of novels describe the early hard life and persevere mentality of the Hakka people. With virtues of diligence and thrift, they struggled through adversities, crossed foreign boundaries, and constantly challenged themselves. The music expresses the indomitable spirits of the Hakka ancestors and how they again and again untied the “knot” of hardship and difficulty in life, portraying a picture of the Hakka culture and heritage.
Movement I. Furious Waves – This movement describes the fighting history of the Hakka ancestors during the era of Japan's occupation of Taiwan. As the music begins, all the percussion instruments together depict a war torn scenery with irregular rhythms and unpredictable appearances. All the bass range instruments produce a rhythmic, uniform strong voice that represents the horns of the army and the furious roars of the people. Contemporary articulations are used to express the unease and fear of the people. It was an era of darkness, anguish, and desperation.
Chinese folk religion | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Chinese folk religion
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Chinese folk religion (Chinese popular religion) or Han folk religion is the religious tradition of the Han Chinese, including veneration of forces of nature and ancestors, exorcism of harmful forces, and a belief in the rational order of nature which can be influenced by human beings and their rulers as well as spirits and gods. Worship is devoted to a multiplicity of gods and immortals (神 shén), who can be deities of phenomena, of human behaviour, or progenitors of lineages. Stories regarding some of these gods are collected into the body of Chinese mythology. By the 11th century (Song period), these practices had been blended with Buddhist ideas of karma (one's own doing) and rebirth, and Taoist teachings about hierarchies of gods, to form the popular religious system which has lasted in many ways until the present day.Chinese religions have a variety of sources, local forms, founder backgrounds, and ritual and philosophical traditions. Despite this diversity, there is a common core that can be summarised as four theological, cosmological, and moral concepts: Tian (天), Heaven, the transcendent source of moral meaning; qi (氣), the breath or energy that animates the universe; jingzu (敬祖), the veneration of ancestors; and bao ying (報應), moral reciprocity; together with two traditional concepts of fate and meaning: ming yun (命運), the personal destiny or burgeoning; and yuan fen (緣分), fateful coincidence, good and bad chances and potential relationships.Yin and yang (陰陽) is the polarity that describes the order of the universe, held in balance by the interaction of principles of growth (shen) and principles of waning (gui), with yang (act) usually preferred over yin (receptiveness) in common religion. Ling (靈), numen or sacred, is the medium of the two states and the inchoate order of creation.Both the present day government of China and the imperial dynasties of the Ming and Qing tolerated village popular religious cults if they bolstered social stability but suppressed or persecuted those that they feared would undermine it. After the fall of the empire in 1911, governments and elites opposed or attempted to eradicate folk religion in order to promote modern values, and many condemned feudal superstition. These conceptions of folk religion began to change in Taiwan in the late 20th century and in mainland China in the 21st. Many scholars now view folk religion in a positive light. In recent times Chinese folk religions are experiencing a revival in both mainland China and Taiwan. Some forms have received official understanding or recognition as a preservation of traditional Chinese culture, such as Mazuism and the Sanyi teaching in Fujian, Huangdi worship, and other forms of local worship, for example the Longwang, Pangu or Caishen worship.
Knot (mov. III) by Ssu-Yu Huang
Third movement of Knot -- Children of the earth
World-premiered by National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (NTSO) on May 27, 2017, with Kai-Hsi Fan conducting. This piece was commissioned by the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra in 2016.
Composed for a large scale orchestration plus four percussions, this piece was inspired by the seminal Taiwanese literature Turbid Waters Trilogy and Taiwanese Trilogy by Zhong ZhaoZheng. The series of novels describe the early hard life and persevere mentality of the Hakka people. With virtues of diligence and thrift, they struggled through adversities, crossed foreign boundaries, and constantly challenged themselves. The music expresses the indomitable spirits of the Hakka ancestors and how they again and again untied the “knot” of hardship and difficulty in life, portraying a picture of the Hakka culture and heritage.
Movement III. Children of the Earth – This Adagio movement expresses the traditional “hard neck” spirits of the Hakka people, which supported them through constant exploration and migration to foreign lands. Under difficult circumstances, they always managed to protect their homes and maintain their family heritage. The music begins with free tempo. The violin solo tells the story with a folk-song-style melody, expressing both sad and happy moods. This section reflects what was described in the novels an indignant feeling of the Hakka people on the ceding of Taiwan during the late Qing dynasty.
Knot (mov. II) by Ssu-Yu Huang
Second movement of Knot -- Harvesting tea
World-premiered by National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra (NTSO) on May 27, 2017, with Kai-Hsi Fan conducting. This piece was commissioned by the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra in 2016.
Composed for a large scale orchestration plus four percussions, this piece was inspired by the seminal Taiwanese literature Turbid Waters Trilogy and Taiwanese Trilogy by Zhong ZhaoZheng. The series of novels describe the early hard life and persevere mentality of the Hakka people. With virtues of diligence and thrift, they struggled through adversities, crossed foreign boundaries, and constantly challenged themselves. The music expresses the indomitable spirits of the Hakka ancestors and how they again and again untied the “knot” of hardship and difficulty in life, portraying a picture of the Hakka culture and heritage.
Movement II. Harvesting Tea – This movement describes the busy farming season of the Hakka ancestors. They sang when they picked tea leaves in order to alleviate hardships and express admirations between men and women. The music begins with Adagio; the exchanges between brass instruments and wood wind instruments imitate the lyrical conversations between the loved ones. When the tempo changes to Allegro, the first and second violins play 16th notes, with the cellos and double basses playing pizzicato. This section depicts a vivid scene of the hectic farming activities, related to the busy summer-to-fall agricultural season as described in the novels.