The Raohe Street Night Market is in Songshan.
Songshan District (traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Songshan Qu; Wade-Giles: Sung-shan Chü) is a district of Taipei. The name of the district is historically spelled Sungshan. The Songshan Domestic Airport is located here.
History
Songshan was originally named Siah-khau (??; Pe?h-oe-ji: Siah-kháu), which is the Taiwanese language pronunciation of a lowland Ketagalan word meaning "Where the river twists". In 1920, the place became Matsuyama Village (???; Mandarin Chinese: songshan zhuang), named after Matsuyama City (???) in Japan (see Taiwan under Japanese rule). It was a part of Shichisei-gun (Qixing District), Taihoku Prefecture (??????). Matsuyama was merged into Taihoku City in 1938. With the return of Taiwan to China in 1945, the Chinese name of the characters ?? (i.e. Songshan) was adopted. In 1946, Songshan became a district with 26 municipal villages (?). In 1990, the southern half of Songshan District became Xinyi District. Its boundary was altered in May 1994, when the Keelung River was artificially moved south slightly.
Administration
Songshan is divided into four regions (??), or secondary district (???), which in turn are divided into 34 municipal villages. They following placenames are romanized in Hanyu Pinyin:
- Sanmin Region (????): northeast
- Libie (??)
- Zhuangjin (??)
- Fujin (??)
- Dongrong (??)
- Sanmin (??)
- Jieshou (??): literally means "Long live Chiang Kai-shek"
- Xinyi (??)
- Xindong (??)
- Futai (??)
- Dongshe Region (????): northwest and central (largest region)
- Jinzhong (??)
- Dongguang (??)
- Longtian (??)
- Dongchang (??)
- Dongshi (??)
- Zhonghua (??)
- Minyou (??)
- Minfu (??)
- Songji (??)
- Benzheng Region (????): southeast
- Ciyou (??)
- Anping (??)
- Pengcheng (??)
- Ziqiang (??)
- Jixiang (??)
- Xinju (??)
- Fusheng (??)
- Zhonglun Region (????): southwest
- Zhongzheng (??)
- Zhonglun (??)
- Meiren (??)
- Jiren (??)
- Dunhua (??)
- Fuyuan (??)
- Fujian (??)
- Fushi (??)
- Fucheng (??)
The airport is located in Dongshe Region, mostly in Jinzhong Village.
Tourism
- Ciyou Temple (??? "Protected by the Kindness"), built in 1753, is dedicated to a dark-faced goddess Matsu.
- Xiahai City Lord Temple (?????) was built in 1753.
- Taipei City Lord Temple (??????) was built in 1926.
- The Raohe Street Night Market (???????), organized in 1987, contains over 160 booths.
Education
- National Open University--Taipei Learning Center (???? ??????)[1]
- Sungshan Community College (??????): located within Zhonglun Senior High School (????), in Jixiang Village [2]
- Yu Da High School of Commerce and Home Economics (??????????????, short ????): private, in Meiren Village [3]
In addition, there are two regular high schools (Xisong and Zhonglun), six middle schools, eight elementary schools, and 28 kindergartens in Songshan.
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