After two days in Taipei, the third day took the high-speed train from Taipei to Hsinchu County, which is across the sea from Putian City, Fujian Province, with rolling mountains, magnificent high-rise buildings and a blue sky with bright sunshine.
Taiwan's administrative region is too complicated, there is a new bamboo city, but also to a new bamboo county, Hsinchu why is it called Hsinchu? This originated from the first year of Guangxu, when the Taiwanese bamboo graben was renamed Hsinchu City, which means a new city set up in the bamboo graben. Hsinchu also has a nickname called Windy City, that's because Hsinchu's wind is really strong! My hat was blown off by the wind more than five times.
Stepping out of the high-speed rail station, the harsh sunlight can't open your eyes, and you can see yellow taxis parked neatly outside the station. Quickly chartered one of them. The driver is a Hakka family surnamed Liu, the voice is soft and very kind and talkative, negotiating the price of 3,000 Taiwan dollars, and he led us to play Hsinchu.
Hsinchu is a famous industrial city in Taiwan, enjoys the reputation of Silicon Valley, and is also the capital of ancient culture, with many highlights. The first stop is Hsinchu Nanliao Fishing Port, which has an 18-kilometer coastline and can be rented to ride a rickshaw along the sea.
Nanliao Old Port and its surrounding settlements are one of the early development areas of Hsinchu City, witnessing the historical development process of Hsinchu City, with important historical and cultural value, it used to be the distribution center of fishing boats around the world, and now it is the end of the return route of fishing boats from north to south, it is the most beautiful place in Hsinchu, where it is close to the sea, there is a fishing port, you can watch the sunset, so it ranks twelve victories, and has the elegant name of "Nanliao Guifan".
Due to the influence of warm currents, the fishery resources here are relatively rich, most of the coastal residents are engaged in fishing, and there are more modern large fishing ports.
Nanliao Fishing Port is very famous in Taiwan. A must-visit to Nanliao Fishing Port is of course Hsinchu's most famous 17 km coastline. As the starting point of the coastline, there are plenty of bikes to rent. During the day, go to the pedal bike to see the scenery, and return to Nanliao Harbor in the evening to blow the sea breeze and eat seafood, this is the freehand life!
The cascading waves chase after wave, lapping at the beach, and the brakes are spectacular!
What are fishermen on the mud after low tide picking up on it?
Hsinchu coastline from Nanliao in the north to Nangang in the south, about 17 kilometers long, recreational attractions include Nanliao Leisure Wharf, Guanhai Park, Haitian First-line Scenic Area, Gangnan Canal, Mangrove Park, Customs Coast, Haishan Fishing Port Guanhai Terrace, Nangang Bird Watching Area, Tourism Service Center and other attractions, providing diversified food, beauty, recreation, sports and cultural parades and other leisure functions, is a well-known sightseeing and leisure base in Taiwan.
Resembling crane-like cranes, flocks of three or five flocks feed on small fish, shrimp and shellfish in shallow concrete.
The tall sea pelican, disdainful, walks with its long, graceful neck through the grass on the shore to hunt insects.
The breakwater is like a neatly arranged chess piece, blocking the raging waves! The red lighthouse at the end of the breakwater watches affectionately over the returning fishermen!
Hsinchu Tourism is quietly heating up, and it is said that the new mayor is less than 40 years old and is actively planning to build a tourist resort in Nanliao. Master Liu ran along the way and talked, which made us gain a lot, but we didn't know that Taiwan's famous National Tsinghua University was in Hsinchu.
In the back door of Tsinghua University, hidden Hsinchu is famous for its island-wide cuisine - Shijia Fish Balls, an old shop with a history of 76 years. Lu meat rice meat soft rice, smooth and delicious. Add meat and fish meatballs Q bullet tender, wonderful, thick soup into the local specialty tender ginger shredded, green onion shredded, in one go, even drink two bowls!
The century-old Beipu Old Street is the most prosperous and lively place in Beipu, Emei and Baoshan, where in addition to the ancient buildings of the old settlement, authentic Hakka cuisine is the reason why many people come here. The uncle who sells almond cakes at the gate of Citiangong is very inspirational and conscientious and determined to make the best almond cakes and teaches us the secret recipe of how to brew the best lemonade without reservation to several guests from the mainland.
In the CitianGong next to the opening of more than ten years of Beipu canteen, the store by the ancient family mother and daughter in charge of the cooking, selling is the authentic Hakka home cooking taste, phonograph, old movie posters, so that the dining atmosphere is more nostalgic atmosphere, a large number of garlic minced garlic cooked out of the garlic pig's feet, Q bullet sticky soft pig's feet full of garlic aroma, very under the rice!
Citian Palace was founded in the fifteenth year of Daoguang (1835 AD), the main god in the palace is only Guanyin Bodhisattva, according to legend, Jiang Xiuluan, a pioneer of the reclamation of Beipu Township, welcomed from the mainland, and in 1874, Jiang Ronghua, a descendant of the Jiang clan, added the front hall and the left and right corridors.
The main ancestor of citian palace, Guanyin Bodhisattva, is equipped with the Heavenly Virgin, Emperor Wugu Shennong, Emperor Wenchang, King Sanshan, Emperor Sanguan, Lady Zhusheng, and Fude Zhengshen. Although CitianGong does not have a gorgeous appearance building, it is closely related to the development and culture of Beipu Township, has a very high cultural preservation value, and is a third-class monument in the Taimin area.
Beipu was one of the last areas in Hsinchu County to be developed until the light of the Qing Dynasty, starting a full 100 years later than the rest of Taiwan. But persimmon cakes, puffed tea, tea and Hakka dishes here are the most distinctive flavors of Beipu, so don't miss it! Especially the tea smoothie, that sweet and refreshing still misses!
Beipu is also the place where Lin Qingxia filmed Qiong Yao's first novel "Outside the Window", and Qiong Yao fans can come here to nostalgia!
Formerly known as the Hsinchu City Bureau of Investigation, the Hsinchu Village Museum was officially opened on December 28, 2002 when the 8th District of the Air Force Ichimura Was established as the Village Museum.
Originally, the exhibition space was only on the first floor, but due to the increase in cultural relics, the second and third floors were expanded. This is a museum that showcases the culture of Hsinchu City's villages, and many of the exhibits are donated spontaneously by villagers.
In addition to a large number of precious objects, the museum also has cartoons and puzzles for visitors to take photos and entertain.
Neiwan Scenic Area is a small town located in the mountains, and the city people love this quiet place, and there is also an old but still in use narrow gauge railway station.
The traditional street houses on Neiwan Old Street have their own unique historical significance, and due to the influence of Japanese colonialism, many of the roofs still have Japanese cultural tiles.
There are many traditional foods here, and the villagers are also hospitable, smiling and serving homemade delicacies for visitors to taste. Among them, liu Xingqin's cartoons of the vivid pictures of Brother A and his aunt have become the symbols of the Inner Bay.
If you want to have a full meal and eat authentic Hakka dishes, you have to eat Hakka representative noodles - try the soup that has been sold for many years, and the semi-handmade pure rice noodles have a bouncy taste, smooth and smooth in the mouth, and must not be tasted!
The hospitable sunflower parrot greets every passerby attentively.
The meat dumplings here are also very famous, the delicious wild ginger meat dumplings are addictive, and the specialties such as purple jade vegetable buns, Hakka tea, tea smoothies, and Hakka mochi are also difficult to stop.
The closed Neiwan Theater is one of the few wooden antique theaters in Taiwan to retain the whole thing, leaving an empty room for people to reminisce about the past. Many movies such as "Spring and Autumn Tea Room", "Black Skin and White Teeth", and "Dosang" have used it as a story scene.
Neiwan Old Street, once the main road for transporting trees and minerals, was very lively in the 1950s, but with the decline of the forestry and mining industry, the grand situation of neiwan forestry has also changed from noisy to calm.
Returning to the city from Neiwan passes through Hexing Railway Station in Hengshan Township, Hsinchu County, which is a small station along the Neiwan Branch Line.
Don't underestimate this small Japanese-style train station! The station was once intended to be scrapped by the Taiwan Railways, and later a couple came forward to adopt the old station, which contributed to the rebirth of Hexing Station.
The station was also famous for the story of the couple, and a large number of wenqing visited, and then the media hyped up the romantic title of "Love Railway Station".
In 1958, Zeng Chunzhao, a first-year high school student at Hsinchu Middle School, met a girl who ranked first in the whole grade at a neighboring school on a train. In 1960, on the day of the third monthly exam of the previous semester, he overslept and watched the first train drive away. There are no taxis and no other means of transportation. He thought to himself that if he repeated the grade because he could not catch the exam, the friendship with the girl would not be able to continue. Zeng Chunzhao's only choice: chase the train. He ran 2.1 kilometers along the railway to the next station, JiuYitou, to catch up with the train. Many years later, he also caught up with Peng Zhihui and married him.
The station waiting room has been transformed into a romantic and warm time nostalgia room, with a variety of clocks hanging on the walls, and hands pointing to different times, representing each different story and development.
In order to cooperate with Taiwan Comics DreamWorks, "Lavender Forest" took over the right to operate the station and entered the station for trial operation a few years ago.
The station is full of quaint Japanese wooden buildings, and it is said that the protagonist of the story has commissioned and renovated The Hat hing Station, returning to the scenery of the 1940s.
After the station won the title of the most romantic love railway station, it attracted a large number of literary and artistic youth to visit, and the romantics can also stamp various love seals in the ticket hall for a long time!
Vintage clocks, old carriages, Japanese style, and a romantic love story about chasing trains have created the past and present lives of this love station.
Visitors to the station are struck by the love story and historical value that took place at the station. So the station specially set aside a wall as a love lock wall to remember the lovers' loyalty vows!
In view of the romantic characteristics of young men and women, lavender forest has created many characteristic landscapes for tourists to take photos to commemorate.
Two old train cars have been converted into a coffee shop selling drinks and snacks and a potted shop selling meat and plants, with free comic books on the shelves and cute velvet bears reading the poems of love with you!
The large concentric lock wall is densely packed with prayers that promise eternal concentric wishes!
It is said that there are lovers who have rekindled their love after breaking up and renewing their frontier here! Arms such as: Yan Chengxu and Lin Zhiling, Shu Qi and Feng Delun...
Love is wonderful, life is wonderful! Trains are chasable! The love story of Hsinchu, which chases the train, tells us that only the unremitting and persistent pursuit is the source and motivation for loving life and enjoying life!
After a busy day, people began to return home on motorcycles, and we also marched along Zhongzheng Road to the Capital City God Temple, where food is concentrated.
Hsinchu at night looks a little enchanting, here is on the verge of the Taiwan Strait, the wind is very strong, the traffic on Zhongzheng Road is busy, and the locomotives that are speeding against the wind really have the taste of the wind-chasing teenagers!
As we approach the City God Temple, many of the old restaurants and liquor stores on the side of the road begin to summon stupid and squirming stomachs with all kinds of seductive signs!
Hsinchu City God Temple is located in Hsinchu City North District Zhongshan Road, belongs to Taiwan's three-level monuments, its temple scale was the highest in Taiwan at that time, the city god is dedicated to the gods who are in charge of the underworld and the yang to reward and punish good and evil, so the arrangement of the city god temple is like the ancient yamen. It is the highest official city god temple in Taiwan, so the popular incense is very strong!
Snacks near the Hsinchu Metropolitan God Temple are the most distinctive places in Hsinchu. When taiwanese talk about Hsinchu, the City God Temple is definitely the first choice for snacks in Hsinchu. Hsinchu City is quite small, it will not take more than 30 minutes to walk to any attraction, City God Temple is close to Hsinchu City Hall and very close to Hsinchu Railway Station.
Because the 50-year-old shop Xinmeizhen pudding cake recommended by Master Liu was so delicious, the dinner was even unappetizing in the face of many delicacies, and after walking around the City God Temple twice, he was finally attracted by the strong aroma of Xu duck meat and had a big meal.
Unwillingly, on the way back to the hotel, he resolutely swallowed another fried shallot oil cake, plus a large cup of soy milk gifted by the handsome boss, making the way home suddenly become turtle speed!
It took more than 40 minutes to move back to the Howard Plaza Hotel Hsinchu and burp straight up to the top floor to enjoy the hotel's free sauna.
Early in the morning to wake up naturally, I wanted to go to the Next Door North Cathedral (formerly known as the Holy Heart Cathedral of Our Lady) to have a look, but I did not expect to be renovated, very sorry! This Gothic architectural appearance of the North Cathedral was built in the 46th year of the Republic of China, because it is at the intersection of Hsinchu North Road and Zhongzheng Road, so it is often called north cathedral. It has been selected as one of the top 100 historical buildings in the country and is an important landmark of Hsinchu City.
Twenty minutes walk from the Howard Plaza Hotel to Hsinchu Another famous landmark - Hsinchu Railway Station, it is located in Hsinchu City, Zhonghua Road, is the only railway station in Taiwan without a signboard, red brick and stone shape, Baroque classical style, simple and low-key but deeply beautiful, elegant but not noble, plus Hsinchu Railway Station is the oldest existing train station in Taiwan, thus making the railway station a must-visit place for tourists visiting Hsinchu! Climb aboard the Taiwan Railway and head towards Taichung!