| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 台灣文化研究所教學碩士班 === 97 === Based on the regional development of Linyuan Township, Kaohsiung County as the research subject, this paper explores the development and change of Linyuan Township in various periods of time.
Situated at the estuary of the Kaoping River, Linyan Township in Kaohsing County is in a transitional area between Kaohsiung Plain and Pingtung Plain. Due to its borderland location, it had not been developed until the “Chung-Chan Township” was set up during the Cheng Cheng-Kung Period in the Ming Dynasty at the Kengtzukou located at the end tip of Fengshan Hill. By then, the troops started to exploit and cultivate the land.
After Taiwan was included in the territory of the Ching Dynasty, Linyuan was passively governed in the initial period, in which a plenty of officials in the Ming–Cheng Dynasty were repatriated to mainland China. Thus, the original troop exploitation had become bleak. It was not until the last years of the Kanghsi Reign period that immigrants again started to move in to the area to exploit and cultivate the land. Hence, the clustered villages of the Han people had been increasingly extending southward and eastward from Chinchingtan and Kengtzukou. However, during this period of time, people had often suffered from flooding of the lower Tamshui River, and, more often than not, Hsipu Land had been submerged and collapsed. Under such an unforgiving environment, our ancestors believed that nature would be finally conquered by working together hand in hand; they had persistently fought with the great outdoors. In the end, they had gradually settled and rooted in this area. After the Chienlung reign period, due to its favorable location at the estuary of the lower Tamshui River, Tinglintzupien Street had gradually been developed as a sugar distribution center and product transshipment place. In the end, it turned out to be the most prosperous area at Hsiaochuhsia Village. The clustered villages had respectively extended along the river banks and gradually formed a village group in a vertical south-north distribution. It is one of the major attributes of the area’s village development.
In the beginning of the Japanese colonial period, due to its limestone cave terrain at Fengshan Hill, Linyuan became an important foothold to cover anti-Japanese dissidents. It was not until the Japanese Government launched a surrender inducement policy to thoroughly understand those anti-Japanese dissidents’ backgrounds and habitual behavior; the anti-Japanese force had therefore literally crumbled. By then, Lingyuan area had come to a stage of intensive social control. During this period of time, highways and railways were constructed, which led to the fall of the river transportation. To compound matters, the Japanese Government helped capitalists monopolize the sugar market, thus, the commercial leading position of Tinglintzupien Street was hit hard. However, due to policy incentive, the fishery and aquatic products processing industry in this area flourished, which became the most significant achievement made by the Japanese in this area.
In the initial period after the war, the development of the Linyuan area was obviously ignored and marginalized. Of the ten major constructions dominated by the government in 1973, the area was projected to be the Linyuan petrochemical industry zone and defined as an important place of the petrochemical industry. The establishment of the industrial zone prompted rapid industrial change in this area. However, on the other hand, it also brought the problem of public pollution leading to the occurrence of the “Linyuan Incident”, of which Linyuan residents besieged the industrial zone to request compensation. From the village development of Linyuan Township, we may see changes as well as rises and falls in regional development under the transition of regional focuses. In addition, we may also see how the regional environment and the rights and interests of its residents were forced to be sacrificed when our country was shaping its heavy industry and pursuing national economic development.
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