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Ruei Fang junior high school (2013 CyberFair Project ID 7549)
Taiwan,
New Taipei city,Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 1. Local Leaders
We estimate 9 student(s) from 13 to 15 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Ruifang district is a municipal district of Taiwan’s New Taipei City, located east of New Taipei City, and was formerly known for mining. It stopped mining in recent years and developed a tourism industry centered on mining culture.
It is generally believed that Ruifang district was initially called “Ganzilai.” During the late Qing Dynasty, when gold was discovered in the Jingguashi and Juifen mountain area, gold miners arrived endlessly. At the mountain bottom there was a business store named “Ruifang,” ran by Chen Teng and Lai Shih. The merchandise provided in the shop included anything from north to south, and it became a supply and rest station for going into the mountain area and returning to Kavalan (Now Yilan). Since there were many travelers, they all coincidentally or verbally agree and say “going to Ruifang” or “coming from Ruifang” as they travelled together, which has then evolved to its current name. During Taiwan’s Japanese colonial period, it was called Ruifang street in Chilung county of the Taipei prefecture, and was changed to Ruifang Township in Taipei County after the Nationalist Party retreated to Taiwan. In 2010, the upgrade of the five administrative divisions changed the name to Ruifang district of New Taipei City.
Project Description: The artist Huang Ming-Chang draw the Rice Paddies which far from Xindian where he live. The Rice Paddies turn into the Xindian MRT station now. Huang Ming-Chang knows that the good things always go by when the Rice Paddies vanished. He said that” I want to keep the wonderful picture to prove that there is such a wonderful corner in the world for the natural is hard to preserve.