Chishan

Most people may not have expected it, but for residents in Pingtung County’s two small villages of Wanjin (萬金) and Chishan (赤山) — with a combined population of about 5,000 — Christmas is the most important festivity of the year, since about 80 percent of the villagers are Catholics.

2012 December 31, Iok-sin Loa, “FEATURE: Pingtung villages’ Christmas parade a hit”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2013, Taiwan News, page 3

On Dec. 24th Christmas Eve, Wanjin Christmas Festival opened on the weekend made the district crowded with people and cars. In the evening, there were more and more people came to the place to visit. This year, Wanjin Christmas Festival scattered in Wanjin village, Chishan village and Wulaluzi tribe.

2017 January 11, “Thousands of People Crowded to Wanjin to Celebrate the Christmas”, in Ping Tung County Police Bureau [屏東縣政府警察局], archived from the original on 28 Jun 2023

Near Chihshan (赤山), I stumbled across a stretch of old Taiwan Sugar Corporation (台糖, TSC) railroad that’s being converted into a bicycle path. Avoiding the heart of Neipu (內埔), I joined County Road 48-1 (屏48-1), a route I hoped would go through quiet yet quaint villages.

[2020 March 27, Steven Crook, “Highways and Byways: Pingtung’s back country by bike”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2020, Features, page 13

The proposed plant will be located in Chishan, Kaohsiung, near the large banana plantations. It will have a daily capacity of 15 tons of paper at the first stage.

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1975 December 28, “New process is making banana waste into paper”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XVI, number 51, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 1

According to Tu, two hundred years ago the nearby mountains furnished livelihood substitutes for the scanty farmland of Kuanmiao. At that time, bamboo forests grew from Lungchi to Chishan, in Kaohsiung.

1984 November 1, “Kuanmiao crafts comfort for the world”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2023

Last year, CHT-I organized training sessions for foreign moms in various parts of the country, particularly in remote locations such as Chishan in Kaohsiung County, Pingtung, Wuku in Taipei County, and Taitung.

2007 February 11, Marie Feliciano, “CHT expanding education program for migrants”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2022, Society

He then took a banana from his pocket, took the first bite and then passed it to the other band members, who each took a bite out of it to signify that the bond between them was “ru jiao sih ci (如膠似漆),” as thick as thieves, and also promoting the bananas grown in Greater Kaohsiung’s Chishan District (旗山).

2013 February 2, Ching-hua Tsai, Jake Chung, “Greater Kaohsiung renews contract with band Mayday”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2019, Taiwan News, page 3

The result shows that the areas with most population change between 2012 and 2008 are in Chishan and Meinong, and both in the landslide 'coldspot'.

2016, Chia Hung Jen et al., “The Impact of Typhoon Morakot in 2009 on Landslides, Debris Flows and Population in the Chishan River Catchment, Taiwan”, in Geomorphology and Society, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 76

The tremendous achievements of the movement for eliminating the “four pests” and promoting hygiene are well known and universally acclaimed. For example, Chishan County in Shansi Province and the city of Foshan in Kwangtung Province have emerged as the model county and city where the “four pests” have in the main been wiped out.

1973 [1960 April 6], Chen-lin Tan, “Strive for the Fulfillment, Ahead of Schedule, of the National Programme for Agricultural Development”, in Second Session of the Second National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (Documents), AMS Press; Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 87

Chishan county in Shansi province, a model in medical and health work, has 11 commune hospitals. From 1952, they rallied the masses in prevention and treatment work and cut the incidence of infectious diseases from the early post-liberation 10 percent to 0.5 percent.

1973 November, Hua-wen Hsin, “Commune Hospitals Grow”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXII, number 11, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 2

The Little Red Guard road maintenance team of the Yunglo Primary School in Chishan County, Shensi Province, was formed in 1972 to commemorate the ninth anniversary of Chairman Mao’s inscription: “Learn from Comrade Lei Feng." It has grown in number from 3 to the present 24.

1977, “Children's Life”, in China Pictorial, number 351, Peking: China Pictorial, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44, column 1

Then in the Da Yu ting there is the record of a man who received land and grants of a chariot and horses, clothing and a horde of slaves. Some bronze vessels of the Western Chou period unearthed in 1966 at Chishan County near Sian, Shensi Province, bear inscriptions.

2011, Amit Bhattacharyya, “A Note on the Sources”, in The Chinese Civilization Hsia to the Ch'in Dynasty 2207 BC-206 BC, Rachayita, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17