The Historical Development of Okayama Town

Gangshan Town was known as' the forest of thatched poles' because it was sparsely populated in its early years. In the apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty, it was said that an old man named Cai Wenju built a hut on the river bank and set up a stall to sell tea and daily necessities, so that business travelers passing by here could have a place to rest and stay, and gradually a settlement and accommodation were formed here. Another said that Agongdian was originally the settlement of the Aga Society of Pingpu people in Makadao School. After the Han people came here to reclaim the land, they turned Agha into Agong, and then the store became Agong.

during the Qing dynasty, Agongdian became a water and land transportation center of neighboring towns and a relay station for business travel. In 1895, Taiwan Province was ceded to Japan in the Sino-Japanese War, which opened the era of Japanese occupation in Taiwan Province. In 192, the Governor's Office of Taiwan Province implemented local autonomy and adjusted the administrative area of Taiwan. With Dagangshan and Xiaogang Mountain as landmarks, Agongdian was renamed Okayama, and it was set up as a hill villa and was under the jurisdiction of Okayama County in Kaohsiung. It developed rapidly and flourished in the future. In 1945, Taiwan was restored to Fengshan Town, Kaohsiung County after World War II, and 36 villages have been under its jurisdiction. Fuxingli and Shitanli in Shiluotan

Located in Shitanli and Fuxingli in the southwest of Gangshan Town, it was called "Shiluotan" from the Qing Dynasty to the Japanese occupation. In the development history of Gangshan Town, it was developed at the same time as Agongdian Street. In 1718 (the 59th year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty), the place name of Shiluotan was first seen in the "Fengshan County Records" edited and published by Li Piyu, and the second regulation record was: "Shiluotan is in Renshou. Inject rainwater to irrigate the fields. There are also many fish. "

It can be inferred that the Han people had cultivated here around 171 at the latest. The Gangshan area has been developed and inhabited by Pingpu people since ancient times. The reclamation of Han people began in Qianfeng and Houxie, two wasteland areas established by Zheng Dynasty. It may be that people who went to Houxie for reclamation saw a lot of catches of Pingpu people in Shiluotan and gradually moved here for aquaculture.

The Map of Yongzheng Taiwan Province, which was drawn around 1727, has only five place names in Okayama town, such as Ganqilin, Agongdian, Digging Club, Turbid Water Creek Village and Shiluotan. It can be seen that Shiluotan was an important settlement in Okayama at that time.

In 1741 (the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong), the water conservancy part of Rebuilding the Records of Fujian Taiwan Province compiled by Liu Liangbi recorded Shiluotan's life in the Taiwanese government. In addition, in the "Volume of Eight Households' Service Water Payment (Attached)", the fact that the tax was levied on Shiluotan during the Yongzheng period was recorded: "Six houses in Gangtan ... * * * collected 218 RMB 23.4. A bite of Shiluotan, the annual tax is 12 Liang. "

It is pointed out in the literature that Shiluotan was one of the six fish ponds in Kaohsiung area of Tainan at that time that could be taxed and caught, and its status should be not low, and its economic activities were quite active.

In the Interview Book of Fengshan County compiled by Lu Dejia in 1894, Shiluotan was a zhuangtou in Fengshan County at that time. At that time, there were a lot of fish in Shiluotan, and there were 2 irrigated fields. "Shiluotan, in Renshou, is thirty-six miles northwest of the county. At noon on Friday, the source was rained, and the field was irrigated for twenty years, but it dried up in winter." The book also records that there was a "social studies" for people to read Chinese documents in Shiluotan at that time. During the Qing Dynasty, social studies were mostly funded by local people who paid attention to education as the education center of Zhuangtou. If we look at the record of this sentence, we can see that Shiluotan was already a settlement that paid attention to education at that time. Only Gangshan Street, Houxie, Wujiawei and Shiluotan have social studies in the whole area of Gangshan Town. "Twenty-nine social studies in Renshouli: five in Agongdian Street, three in Houxiezhuang, four in Ziguanzhuang, two in Mituo Harbor, one in Dingluodi, two in Haozailiao, one in Dashejiazhuang, two in Chiqian Village, one in Shiluotan, one in Tongan Cuo Village, four in Shilongzhuang, one in Jiujiayuan, one in Wulilinzhuang and one in Qiaoqiao. Agongdian was the place name of Okayama before 1912. During the Qing dynasty, Gangshan became the center of water and land transportation in neighboring towns: water transportation can transport goods to the vicinity of street bridge by the exit of Agongdian River (the old port of Mituo); In terms of land transportation, Gangshan is located on the north-south official road from Fucheng, Tainan to Fengshan County (now Zuoying), and it is also a stopover station in coastal villages such as Amitabha and Yong 'an, and in rural areas such as Alian and Tianliao near the mountain, which leads to endless passenger exchanges and an increase in immigrants and settlers.

there are two versions of the origin of Agongdian place names. The first statement was put forward by Jian Jiongren. He believes that according to the textual research of Yi Nengjiaju, "Agongdian" was originally the hometown of the "Aga Society" of Pingpu ethnic group in Makadao, which is the origin of the place name of "Agongdian", and it should be formed by the Han people after the reclamation. According to Professor Jian Jiongren's textual research, traditional place names in Taiwan Province have two different pronunciations, one is free translation of aboriginal place names, and the other is transliteration of aboriginal place names. At that time, the dialect used in Fengshan County to describe "many boat flowers" was Agongtoan or Agongtoen, and there were many shops in this place in the 58th year of Kangxi (1917), so the Han people transliterated this aboriginal place name as "Agong Store". The local name of Ganzi is "boat flower", so the name of Fanyu "many boat flower" is translated into "Ganzi forest".

Another view is that it is said that as early as the Apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty, an old man named Cai Wenju who came to Taiwan from Putian, Fujian, built a hut by the stream of Agongdian, set up a stall to sell miscellaneous snacks and provided tea for passers-by to facilitate the lodging of travelers who traveled between Tainan and Kaohsiung Zuoying, and was called "Agongdian" or "Wengdian".

Agongdian massacre

From November 25 to December 27, 1898, the Japanese Taiwan Province "Governor-General" launched two "southern crusades" in Chiayi in the north and in the northeast of Pingping in the south. Among these joint military and police operations, the action in Agongdian area was the most brutal. In order to really wipe out and intimidate the anti-Japanese elements, the Japanese army killed all the young men in the suspicious village head in a fierce way of "clearing the village", resulting in thousands of deaths and thousands of houses being destroyed. The brutal means caused the multinational teachers who preached in Taiwan Province to jointly send a book to Hong Kong's Daily News to protest against this inhuman action, which became an event of international attention, known in history as the "Agongdian massacre".

In the process of cleaning up bandits in South Taiwan Province, Japanese military and police have become the targets of many anti-Japanese elements because Agongdian is the most important manor between Tainan and Fengshan, and there are many hills nearby to avoid, so Japanese military and police have vigorously swept through the nearby villages. At present, the records left are * * * Boiling Water in Yanchao Township, Kaohsiung County, Bixiu, Nakazaki and Sixth Squad Leader in Qiaotou Township, and Liaozai in Longqi Village, Tainan County. The similarities of * * * recorded in Qingzhuang are that the Japanese army went to Zhuangtou to demand the surrender of the anti-Japanese leader, and the people in Zhuangtou were unable to complete the order for some reason, so the Japanese army gathered men over the age of 16 in the village and collectively slaughtered them by assassination or fire.