Jiali District Office, Tainan City

Called Shang Ying in the Koxinga period, this is where the Cheng’s garrison troops located. The meaning of the word “Shang” in Taiwanese is peak(Chinese is "Ding"), so we called the place Ying Ding and readjusted it to become Yingding Village in 1946. The crops the village mainly cultivates are sugarcane, corn, sorghum, rice, carrot, etc. The residents in Yingding Village are mostly of the Zhuang Family. There are two temples, Jiafu and Sun Fu General Temple in Yingding Village, and among them, Jiafu Temple is the major religious symbol. It has existed for 280 years, worships Guan Yin, and has good daily attendance. There is the Yingding Community in Yingding Village, constructed by both Jiafu Village and Yingding residents, including Nan Hai Park, and the recreation area has a classic water castle. Moreover, two new landscapes, “Wuzhi Mountain” and “Long Wang(the meaning of Dragon King) Worshipping Gua Yin” have completed construction and are ready for people to come and enjoy them. Due to its elegant and comfortable environment, the community has received the excellence award for landscape treatment.

Jiafu Temple, the religious center of Ying Ding, has a history of 300 years to present. They worship Guan Yin and have good attendance and efficacious fortune poems, which is what most people take delight in talking about. Every time the birthday of the Buddha or during the Chinese New Year come around, there is an incessant stream of visitors. Besides Nan Hai Park, the BBQ area and Water Castle are located next to Jiafu Temple. There are also the landscapes of Wuzhi Mountain and “Long Wang Worships Guan Yin” which are good recreation places for the residents.

Address: No. 102, Ying Ding Village, Jiali District, Tainan City

Coordinates: 23.19878, 120.19174

Phone No.: 06-726-3011 

Pei-chu Chuang (1916-2009 ): Pei-chu Chuang, pen name Ching-Yang Zhe and Yin Mo Sieu, who graduated from Tainan First Senior High School (now National Tainan Second Senior High School), used to be a reporter for the Taiwan New People Newspaper and Taiwan Daily New Newspaper, and also a member of the “Taiwanese Cultural Association” and founder of the journal “Yidouna” with Chingwen Lin. His creations include new poems, novels, and commentaries, but mainly new poems. His poem were influenced by the writing technology of Western poems, and express his romantic feelings. He pursued pure literary creation and paid attention to writing technology. However, after the war, he gave up writing and went to Tainan to engage in trade and no longer talks about the literature.

Located in the northernmost part of Jiali District. It is called Xizhou Village because it is near Yingding River(in chinese, the sound of river is "xi"), having Yingding Village to the south, Syuejia District to the north and Jiangjun District to the west. The District Office is about 5km from here. The Foundation Engineering of Xizhou Community and the drainage and traffic system started construction in March, 1978 and was completed July of the same year. When the Taiwan new development community evaluation took place in 1978, it won the Excellence Award and was recognized for its outstanding work. On October 25, provincial government chairman Lin Yanggang issued the Golden Horse Award to the community. Residents are simple, sincere and hardworking. Other than doing some business, most residents here are farmers and mainly cultivated carrots and lima beans. Because the village is successfully developed their community neatly and beautifully, governors going on an inspection tour through Jiali District tend to come to the community and have a look around. In the village, we have Yongxing Temple, Shi Yuan Shuai Temple, Zhuang Fu Yuan Shuai Temple.

Yong Xing Temple worships emperor San Gong that has 36 door gods painted on the temple door.

Coordinates: 23.20543, 120.18404