WINDOW ON TAIWAN-Welcome to Baisha township


name of township：	baisha
name of city：	Penghu County
anonymity：	Beishanyu, Dingshan
land area：	20.0875km2
population ：	9456 people (Oct. 2003)
No. of villages & neighbor-hoods：	15 villages, 179 neighborhoods

location：
Baisha Township, located in the north of Penghu archipelagoes, includes seven populated islands of Baisha , Zhongton, Niaoyu, Yuanbeiyu, Dachangyu, Mudouyu and Jinyu islands, and more than twenty depopulated islands of Guoyu, Gupoyu, Tiezhanyu, Tudigongyu, Xianjiao, Baishajiao, Jinyu, Quzhuayu, Beijiao, Maosiyu, Baishayu, Pengfutan, Nanmianguayu, Caoyu (Yuanbeinan), Jilongyu, Pingqiyu, Baishayu (Tiezhanyunan), Jianyu, Caoyu (Watongnan), Yanqingyu and Xiaoyu. The islands of Baisha occupies more than forty percents of Pengfu Archipelagoes. Baisha (white sand) is named by its extended white sandy beach. The Administration is located in Chikan Village which becomes the politics and culture center of Baisha Township.

description：
The coasts around Baisha Islands are tortuous and diverse. The cliff, the reef, the clean sand beach and the green sea interlocked makes Pengfu island become a very important point when the tourists go sightseeing around the islands. Especially, the cliff located in Baishayu, Niaoyu, Yuanbeiyu islands is a landform of columned basalt with various joints, which is of great momentum, not only a natural prodigy of uncanny workmanship, a outdoor research place for geologists but also a potential representative location of a world heritage reported by the Committee of Culture Construction. Due to the plentiful groundwater, the agriculture is prosperous in Pengfu. The output of local Jiabao melons and western muskmelons is the first-rate in Pengfu County. Besides the human historical hertiage of Tongliang great banyan and castle relics, there are also plenty of platforms made by marine abrasion due to continuously scouring of arousing waves caused by piercingly cold northeast trades all the year round in Baisha islands. Gupo, Quzhuayu are famous for the natural edible seaweed. The broad reefy coast of Baisha is pregnant with abundant marine ecologies; as a result, it becomes a heaven for migratory birds in transit to hunt and a best place for common people to understand the tide curve, to collect spiral shells and to pick up the shellfish.

head：Song-guojin

historical description：

Most Baisha villagers migrated from Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Jinmen in Ming and Ching Dynasty and gradually aggregated to be a village, In the first beginning, the villagers mainly fished on the sea and cultivated when they were unoccupied. Pengfu has been brought under the control of the count in Yuan Dynasty, Baisha was subordinated to Pengfu. Till Ching Dynasty, Baisha started to establish Ao (kind of an office) to deal with government affairs. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-4895,Taiwan and Pengfu had ceded to Japan Government. Japan Government continued using Ao-she to manage all the affairs. The five-ao of Baishayuan merged into Dingshanao in 1896 and renamed to be Dachikan in 1897. After that, the administration organization has been adjusted for several times. During the second to the sixth year of R.O.C., Dachikan was established Waton, Chikan and Zhenhai and directly under Pengfu Hall. In the 9th year of R.O.C., the government reform the official system. Pengfu Hall switched to be a prefecture, the areas under the prefecture were united to be a village. In the 34th year of R.O.C., Taiwan and Pengfu has returned back to our own government. Due to the area of Pengfu’s territory was too small, the government only established Wangan Area to have command over Wangan and Dayu. Villages and Towns are under the control of Area, Dingshanzhuang has renamed to be Baisha Township from then.

contact：

tel：06-9931001

e-mail：baisha0@yahoo.com.tw

address：(884) No. 366, Chikan Village, Baisha Township, Pengfu Country

website：http://www.baisha.gov.tw/

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