An old street from the Qing-era ferry landing, where arcaded shophouses and Fuxing Temple still stand
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Daliyi is an old street settlement that got its start from Qing-dynasty boat traffic, and the old street still has tingzijiao-style shophouses with covered arcades out front and roll-shutter roofs; there's a lane tucked in among them called Xiancai Lane. Fuxing Temple on Fuxing Street enshrines a soft-bodied Erma Mazu statue from Meizhou, which the Ministry of Culture has listed as an Important Antiquity. Right next door is the Daliyi Culture Hall, originally built in 1929 as a meeting hall for the local baozheng, the Japanese-era village head. In 1981, Guoguang Road opened up, making it easier to get into downtown Taichung, so people who worked in the city started moving to Dali. These days you can shop for groceries at the Neixin morning market and evening market, and there's the Shengli Night Market at night. Near the night market, over on the far end of Guoguang Road Section 2, you'll find the Guoguang Flower Market, Dali Sports Park, and the Museum of Fiber Arts all in the same area.
Since 2021, the District Office has also been borrowing space at the Museum of Fiber Arts for its offices, so errands and exercise are all in the same area. For daily shopping, this neighborhood ranks 22nd out of Taichung's 47 neighborhoods, and 15th for healthcare — around the middle or a little above. For school, there's Dali Elementary School, which has been around since 1918 and sits less than 300 meters from Fuxing Temple.
There's no TRA or MRT station in the neighborhood or within a kilometer of it, and this area ranks 38th out of Taichung's 47 neighborhoods for public transit. Overall convenience also only ranks 35th, falling toward the bottom of the list just like public transit.
The name 'Dali' comes from the Hoanya name for their settlement, and 'yi' means the small wooden stake used to tie up boats and rafts. Qing-dynasty settlers came here along the Dadu River and up the Dali River, tying their boats and rafts to these stakes when they landed; the Han Chinese traders who came and went did business here, and the settlement was once known as Ferry Landing. People used to say, 'First Fu (Tainan), second Lukang, third Monga, fourth Zhuluo, fifth Zhuqian, sixth Daliyi' — Daliyi had its own run of prosperity. Later the river changed course, river trade declined, and with no railway or highway passing through, the area settled back into being a farming village. In 1993, Dali Township was upgraded to Dali City, and after the 2010 county-city merger it became Dali District. The 921 Earthquake damaged the District Office on Daxin Road, and in March 2021 the staff moved into the Museum of Fiber Arts to work.
Compared with the 47 Taichung neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
NHI-contracted hospitals, public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area (estimated from the Taichung City Education Bureau's catchment tables for the 2023 (elementary) and 2022 (junior high) school years, the latest the city has published as open data, treating every neighborhood in a village as equal in size), high schools and universities inside or within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more (OpenStreetMap), and large shopping malls and department stores (OpenStreetMap).
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