Sunday, August 27, 2006

Turtle Hill section,Old Castle, Feng -Shan County





Here is wall of Old Castle,Feng-Shan County,at Turtle Hill. It is like the mouth of a turtle drink the water from Lotus Lake.The path is a main road at that time.There is a famous artist, Kinichiro Ishigawa 1871-1945,born at Shizuoka, Japan, been here to depict the scence of Lotus and Ban-Ping Shan,the hill in another side of Lotus Lake. Mr. Ishigawa is almost a pioneer of modern Taiwan art's renaissance.The famous artist then almost his students until now.
The wall here is destroyed partly by the mainlander since defeat by communist at 1949. They use the wall as part of house,buildings constructed without lincence.Since the democratic development,the wall is recovered by local government, and then assigned as first degree historic site

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