Ching-Shui and Japanese Typhoon Winds

10-12-14

      Leona took me to Ching-Shui yesterday, a nice little city on the coast over the Dadu Mountains just northwest of Taichung, north of Da-Ya, home to the mafioso Buddhist temple. Ching-Shui, meaning "clear-water," is a town with a public school build by the Japanese during occupation, the same style as Leona's school in Tan-Zih that was misguidedly torn down twenty years ago. There are a dozens of Ching Dynasty and Japanese era buildings and a shrine up the mountain where a museum has recently been made to house archaeological finds from the aboriginal roots of Taichung three thousand years ago. Leona and I had a great time walking around the city, visiting their famous rice with pork cause topping restaurant, and taking photos of the old buildings. 

      It took over an hour to get to Ching-Shui on the Taiwan Railroad Coastal line which goes south way down passed Xin Wu-Er's HSR station and doubles back  north past Sweeney-Poo's resting place cemetery. If we could go straight west over the Dadu mountain from Beitun, Ching-Shui is only about ten miles as the crow flies instead of the fifty miles I think we looped cross to get there. It was such a windy day with the largest typhoon of the season carrying 150 mph winds towards Japan this morning reaching out over Taiwan on its way north. When we got home at 6pm, the fencing around the patio ledge was bent over from the wind, a heavy potted bush fallen, and the trash can lid of our cistern flown away, hopefully not hurting anyone. 

Public School built in Japanese times still in use.

Public school teachers' offices.

The feel of an old Japanese school.

Rehabilitating an old structure.

Only one part is brick.

Will it be fixed or demolished?

The entrance

To be fixed up

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Part of the revival

Japanese bridge marker

Famous stick rice restaurant

Man riding one of five original ice cream carts

What would Colonial Sanders think?

Hope they can save this little beauty.

Ching-Shui's logo, everywhere

Japanese shrine to 1932 earthquake 

Part of the old fort wall

Male lion guard

Female guard

The old wall.

Japanese cistern still in use

Stairs down from the Japanese shrine

Stairs up to the shrine

Beautiful old building