HayDabin (解大賓)'s (crab 蟹) smoke pipe  Source  National Museum of Natural Science  UPDATES 12/05/2023  From Crab  蟹 to worm-free  解 - 'On Record'  a 118 years difference Taokas 1884 Saisiyat 2002 Crab symbolism is very different in Han Taiwanese and Indigenous Taiwanese culture.  Crabs represent " success"  in Chinese culture as the word for the crab's hard-shell 甲 also means "first place" and "best".  Motif of crab is symbolism for scholarly success in imperial exams. A matching status for Scholar 曾 residence.  https://katyhuiwenhung. blogspot.com/2023/02/symbolic- stone-ornament-pineapple-and. html?m=1 For Jade Mt indigenous groups Bunun, Tsou etc crab is heroic and revered.  Crab, however, is significant in a very different way for two indigenous groups - Taokas and Saisiyat, Crab was a clan name.  On record, it appeared Taokas Crab clan had a rather longer history than Saisiyat - Notable Crab clan man  HayDabin 解大賓 1853-1920 (highest ra

Yuliang Dam 漁梁垻  by Ziyang Mt  under Ziyang Bridge  紫陽山橋 Shexian, Anhui  歙縣 安徽 (2019) Huangshan 黃山  'The last battle'  光明頂' of Kung-Fu fiction.  Mystical island Penglai 蓬萊 While I can't muster a reason  (motive, desire whatever - simply my heart went cold)  to see China again - I felt my early 2019 'Farthest Root' experience should be tucked but not swept away in a nice corner of my heart. So here it is. YULIANG DAM 漁梁垻  Yuliang dam  situated in Yuliang , Shexian  歙縣  (a well preserved, characteristic Huizhou 徽州-style ancient town) is  the oldest and largest-scale  dam in ancient times with more than 1,000 years' history . Huangshan area is all about STONES. Stone b anks of the dam I walked on was rebuilt in Ming dynasty. And the town was paved with cobblestones. ( Great photo and information on this blogpost  HERE . ) I was taken here primarily because of Ziyang   紫陽  (purple sun) Mt and the surrounding village of the same name where my maternal ancestor Zh

Kuo Hsueh-hu 郭雪湖, Festival on South Street (1930) In this famous painting of South Street 南街 ( today's south section of 'Dihua' 迪化 street ), two shops on each side identify Taiwan (products) during Japanese rule - 1. 高砂  Takasago  (  papaya candy 木瓜糖) - right side 2. 蓬萊 Ponlai  (Dajia 大甲 rush straw crafts) - left side Becoming Taiwanese Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s to 1950s Evan Dawley What does it mean to be Taiwanese? This question sits at the heart of Taiwan’s modern history and its place in the world. In contrast to the prevailing scholarly focus on Taiwan after 1987,  Becoming Taiwanese   examines the important first era in the history of Taiwanese identity construction during the early twentieth century, in the place that served as the crucible for the formation of new identities: the northern port city of Jilong (Keelung). Part colonial urban social history, part exploration of the relationship between modern ethnicity and nationalism,   Becoming Taiwanese