踏溯台南

踏溯台南

文學院 通識教育課程

The Museum: Ecological village and eco-museum

Route Introduction

Remnants of the Shrine constructed in the Sankandian Sugar Factory

   Construction of the shrine began in the 5th year of Showa (1930), and in May of the following year, a seating ceremony was held, and it was a shrine built for the employees of Sankandian Sugar Factory of Taiwan Sugar Company, (renamed Yongkang Sugar Factory after the war). After World War II, the location of the shrine was used by a post office. The post office was later demolished, and the remnants are as you can see today. Later, Taiwan Sugar Company once decided to collaborate with a building company to redevelop this area, but because of the discovery of the traces of Zhuluo tree frogs in the area and the calling for the preservation of the rich forest and ecology, with the efforts of civil organizations, a l t h o u g h t h e e n t i r e a r e a o f t h e o r i g i n a l Sankandian Sugar Factory could not be fully preserved, the Sankandian Shrine was designated as a provisional historic site by the Tainan County Government in 2007 and was protected and officially announced as a county historic site in 2009, and later became a municipality designated monument after the merger of the county and city. Although only the remnants of the bases of the shrine's wooden buildings, stone lanterns, guarding dogs, and torii gates can still be seen, these are important images of the shrine in the past. A straight path that extends to the shrine itself is still there to remind people of the solemnity and tranquility of the sacred space, and it also reflects the political and economic situation that has been faced by the Sankandian settlement during the Japanese occupation period until today.

 
 
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