Old Jinshan Airfield and Li Qifeng Mansion |
On the way from downtown Jinshan to Jinbaoshan, there are two places worth visiting nearby Sanjie Bridge. One of them is the site of a small military airfield built by the Japanese during World War II. It was soon abandoned after its completion because of plane-crashing and its little function. Only three huge stone rollers used for pressing the airfield ground were left behind, now placed on a platform donated by Dharma Drum Mountain Foundation, as the relics of this airfield. The surrounding area is now a beautiful flower farmland, the biggest supplying area of azalea in Taiwan.
Nearby the airfield, you can see the Li Qifeng Mansion, a well-preserved old house built in 1810. The “swallow-tail” decorations on the roof show that someone in the Li family, the richest in Jinshan at that time, had been a government official in the Qing Dynasty. It is a traditional three-hall mansion, gracefully built, with a very rare feature of a half-moon pond for “feng-shui (wind and water)” to ensure the everlasting prosperity of the family.
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Fun Facts:
In addition to the Jinshan Old Airport Relics, the Jinshan Hot Springs and Old Street are also famous. There are four types of hot spring water in Jinshan: seabed spring, carbonate spring, sulfur spring, and iron spring. Every hot spring resort in Jinshan has distinctive character.