Wednesday, August 16, 2006

South Gate, Old Castle,Feng-Shan County 1825





The South gate,Chi-Wen Men( Activated Learning Gate), is also the remaining of the Old Castle. The second floor is newly, reconstructed at late 1960 era. It is occupied by the marine corps since late 1949 and act as major juncture between Tsoying and Kaohsiung Downtown.For the gradually silent Taiwan Strait, the military activity is transfer to another way, the importance of the gate is minimized. Then, the gate is referred to local administratin. It is now the cross point of Chung-Hwa Road and Tsoying Da Road. From the ancient map, it is near the "Snake Hill", now the Tao-Chi Yuan camp of Navy base

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