踏溯台南

踏溯台南

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Ginza: Commercial tracks from harbors to modern streets

Route Introduction

Former Taisho Park
Now Minsheng Green Park

   In Meiji's 44th year (1911), the "Tainan Urban Correction Plan" was announced, introducing a new modern street system, the important feature of which is the circle, and Taisho Park is an urban green space enclosed by the circular road located in the core area of the plan. Taisho Park was the name during the Japanese occupation period, now it has been renamed Tang, Dezhang Memorial Park, or, Minsheng Green Park for older Tainan residents, and was designated as a municipal monument in 2004. The location was called "Niu Shi Cheng" or "Three Realms Altar" in the Qing Dynasty, and in 1906 it was converted into a fireproof vacant space due to fire prevention and other needs, and in 1907, a stone statue of Kodama Gentaro, the fourth governor of Taiwan, was erected in the vacant land, so it was once called "Kodama Park" when it was ready to be built as a circle in 1916. Although the topographic map of 1921 shows that Taisho Park has gradually taken the form of a circular park and gradually posed as the central point of urban planning, it was not until the early 1930s that the circular road had the scale of seven avenues leading radially to all parts of the city today. After World War II, Taisho Park reflected the changes in the political environment and the ideologies of Tainan rulers and the public, a standard bell was built here in 1960. In 1965, a bronze statue of Sun, Wen was added in 1965, and in 1997, for the first time, a non-KMT mayor was elected to Tainan City Government, and the statue of Sun, Wen was replaced by a bust statue of Tang, De-zhang.

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