In Taipei City, Taiwan Province, if you ask where Yuya Road is, I am afraid that 99 out of 100 people will not be able to answer.
Youya Road is located in Taipei's Yangming District, or more precisely in the Datun District. Datunshan, formerly known as "Daluo Mountain", is composed of more than a dozen volcanic cones. This is a group of extinct volcanoes, the highest peak of which is the Seven Star Peak at an altitude of 1,120 meters, and another extinct volcano with a half-circle like a bell is called Shamao Mountain, an extinct volcano south of the Seven Star Peak and east of Shamao Mountain was originally named Grass Mountain, because Chiang Kai-shek worshiped the Ming Dynasty philosopher Wang Yangming and renamed Yangming Mountain. Because Yangmingshan is the most famous, people also call that area Yangmingshan Park. Youya Road is in front of Yangming Mountain, halfway up a volcanic cone in Datun Mountain, submerged in dense mountain forests.
Youya Road was originally a mountain trail. After the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, they looked at Beitou and the nearby hot springs, so the mountain trail was widened, and high-end hotels and Japanese-style houses were built along the hillside. After the restoration of Taiwan in 1945, this mountain road was named Yuya Road because of its "quiet and elegant scenery along the way, which can soothe people's restless hearts".
In his later years, Zhang Xueliang
General Zhang Xueliang
On the short elegant road, there are three "city-determined historic sites" in Taipei City: one is No. 32 Youya Road, which is the Jiashan Hotel founded in the tenth year of Taisho (1921), which is one of the largest Japanese-style single-building wooden houses in Taiwan; The second is No. 21 Youya Road, which was founded in the ninth year of Showa (1934) and is the only remaining Japanese-style all-wood inn in Taipei City; The third is a small alley called Xinglin Lane on Youya Road, which has many private temples and Buddhist grottoes built during the Japanese Occupation, dedicated to King Fudo Myeong.
However, my purpose in going to Youya Road was not to look for the three "city-determined monuments" in Taipei City in the dense forest, but to go straight to No. 34. At the No. 34 gate, the word "Zen Garden" hangs horizontally above the door, and a sign below the door has a line of words written vertically: "Former residence of Young Marshal Zhang Xueliang".
What I am looking for is the place where General Zhang Xueliang was imprisoned. This elegant road should actually be the ghost of seclusion - although before the imprisonment of Zhang Shaoshuai, this place was already named Yuya Road.
Zhang Xueliang (June 3, 1901 ~ October 14, 2001), courtesy name Hanqing, was the eldest son of the warlord leader Zhang Zuolin. Northeasterners call Zhang Zuolin "Zhang Dashuai". On June 4, 1928, Zhang Zuolin was killed by the Japanese in a special train in Huanggutun, and the 27-year-old Zhang Xueliang succeeded him as the commander-in-chief of Northeast Security, known as "Zhang Shaoshuai".
A week after his father Zhang Zuolin was killed, Zhang Xueliang made the decision to "change the banner of the northeast" and announced his obedience to the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and was appointed by the Nationalist Government as deputy commander of the army, navy, and air force and commander of the Northeast Frontier Command. From then on, Zhang Xueliang had a fairly close relationship with Chiang Kai-shek, and Zhang Xueliang was a first-class general of the Kuomintang army, that is, a four-star general.
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Entering Gate 34, you are greeted by a stone staircase road descending down. Down the path, in the shade of greenery, on the hillside, scattered with a group of green tiles, brick walls, and wooden floors. This is the commanding point of the Datun Mountain Depression in the Beitou Geothermal Valley, facing Guanyin Mountain at the mouth of the Tamsui River. Looking at the bottom of the mountain, the buildings in Beitou are nearby, and the downtown Taipei city is in the distance, which can be described as a beautiful view.
It is now called "Youya Road", which symbolizes "seclusion"
"Zen Garden" was only given in 1981, not its original name. Built in the 2020s, this Japanese-style garden encapsulates Taiwan's colorful history.
When it was first built, it was called the "New Height Hotel" and was a meeting place for Japanese businessmen.
Later, it was favored by the Japanese military, and it became the "Japanese Officers' Club".
The author is under house arrest in Taipei, Taipei, and on both sides of the photo are Yu Youren's inscriptions praising Zhang Xueliang
During World War II, it became a guest house for the Japanese suicide pilot, the Kamikaze. Before they set out to die and serve the emperor, they came here to have fun and enjoy the last "happiness" of life.
Young Marshal Zhang Xueliang Taipei Beitou house arrest place
After the restoration of Taiwan, it once became Taiwan's official guest house.
Since then, it has become the place of imprisonment of General Zhang Xueliang and Miss Zhao Si.
In 1981, it was converted into a Zen Garden Garden View Restaurant, which serves a Mongolian barbecue buffet until today. In addition, the house where the spies who guarded General Zhang Xueliang lived back then became the Jade Xuan Tea House. Especially after nightfall, it has become a good place to enjoy the night view of Taipei.
As I walked down the stone steps, the first thing I saw was the Jade Xuan Tea House. The Japanese-style house was located above the Zen Garden View Restaurant, where spies used to live, so that they could monitor General Zhang Xueliang's every move from a high position.
I walked to the Zen Garden View Restaurant, where the real "Former Residence of Young Marshal Zhang Xueliang" was real. A frame of "handsome guys" and "beautiful women" sitting face to face on a pair of rattan chairs hangs prominently in front of the restaurant. That "handsome guy" is Zhang Xueliang, and that "beauty" is Miss Zhao Si. The caption reads: "Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi lived in Taiwan in 1947, and this is a photograph taken when Mo Dehui came to visit after he was escorted to Taiwan. ”
This photograph from March 7, 1947 is an extremely precious historical photograph. Zhang Xueliang in the photo is only 46 years old, while Miss Zhao Si is only 35 years old. The photograph shows that Zhang Xueliang and Miss Zhao were imprisoned in Taiwan as early as 1947 — in fact, they were secretly taken to Taiwan in 1946. The caption of the photo only says "In 1947, Zhang Xueliang and Zhao Yidi lived in Taiwan", and many tourists mistakenly thought that they took pictures in the Zen Garden, but it was actually in Hsinchu.
Mo Dehui is a member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang. He was a sage in Northeast China, and was once relied on by Zhang Xueliang's father, Zhang Zuolin, and served as the director of the Fengtian Department of Finance, the acting governor, and the chief of agriculture, industry and commerce of the Beiyang government, and also won Zhang Xueliang's trust. Mo Dehui also gained Chiang Kai-shek's trust. Therefore, during Zhang Xueliang's imprisonment, whether in the mainland or in Taiwan, Mo Dehui was able to visit Zhang Xueliang.
In April 1945, accompanied by Li Xiaobai, a special agent of the military command, Mo Dehui went to Tongzi, Guizhou, to visit Zhang Xueliang on Chiang Kai-shek's orders, and gave Zhang Xueliang a pocket watch on Chiang Kai-shek's behalf.
Zhang Xueliang laughed when he saw his pocket watch: "Time has passed 10 years, and now Mr. Jiang is worried about letting me master time." ”
Zhang Xueliang smiled and asked, "Old Mo, when do you think Mr. Jiang can release me?" ”
Mo Dehui had to answer vaguely: "Since there is a good period, Jun Mo asked!" ”
Zhang Xueliang's Taipei Beitou House Arrest is located halfway up the mountain, overlooking Taipei City