| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 台灣文化研究所 === 103 === The area in this paper is around 10 villages of Zuojhen in Tainan. It mainly explores the development and the changes of Zuojhen in each period with different times and backgrounds. The researcher first collected, read and sorted out a large number of historical documents and then analyzed and summarized those data with field research and map interpretation and remake to make up for a deficiency of the documents.
In Zuojhen’s pioneer history, Plains Aborigines play an important role. With Han people continued land reclamation, Xingang community were forced to move southeast to hills during the final stage of Kangxi Dynasty and Zuojhen became the biggest migration sites at that time. In Zheng period, Zuojhen had become the main development area of town camp reclamation. Because of its poor land and being located in the mountain area, until Oianlong Dynasty, Han people started doing in-depth development and Li Plains Aborigines aggressively developed Gang Chai Lin. Also, being located in remoteness, the weakness of local government control and social security corruption, settlement was needed to defense bandits.
Agriculture is the main source of income in this area. Without water facilities, most farmland were non-water facility paddy fields. Till Japanese colonial period, Han people had become settlement and drought-resistant crops were the main in-come sources. The development of sugar industry in Wan Li drove the plants of sugar cane as raw material supply in Zuojhen and with the construction of transport facilities, a surge of hope grew in this new development-oriented region.
During post-war period, with the close of the sugar factory, sugar cane plant switched to fruit plant and bananas and mangos has become the main crop in this area. The spread of planting Bird Lime tree makes Zuojhen a kingdom of Bird Lime Tree. With the promotion of Siraya Cultural Park and Chalk Festival, Ts’ai-liao fossil museum, Bama Pingpu Museum, Tsaoshan Moon World and 308 High Hills have become important tourism resources in this area. In these years, New Year's Eve Events held by Tainan City Government makes Er-liao sunrise as a tour landmark. Although continuing population aging and moving-out, we hope Town of Chalk could become a leisure farm for tourism under the rebuild of community resource and the efforts of government and local organization to attract moving-out population to come back and bring greater tourism benefits.
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