Wufeng's main street, Zhongzheng Road, home to the Lin Family Mansion and the old Provincial Assembly
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Wufeng's streets grew up along Zhongzheng Road, with commercial areas on both sides and hills rising to the east. On the east side of Zhongzheng Road, between Minsheng Road and Laiyuan Road, you'll find the Wufeng District Public Retail Market, one of the older and larger markets in the Tunqu area. Minzhu Street and Minquan Street, which surround the market, were early commercial settlements in Wufeng. Further in is the Wufeng Lin Family's Gongbaodi Garden, and to the south on Zhongzheng Road stands the former Taiwan Provincial Assembly.
With so many historic sites and educational institutions around, Wufeng has earned the nickname 'Culture Township'. The Wufeng Lin Family Mansion and Garden is a national historic site, and you can visit Xiacuo (the Lower House) just by booking online. The Provincial Assembly's Assembly Hall, Chaoqin Hall, and Members' Hall were designated historic sites in 2008. The Lin Family's Laiyuan Garden is just outside the neighborhood, and Asia University and the 921 Earthquake Museum of Taiwan are about a kilometer away. For schooling, there's Wufeng Elementary School and Wufeng Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School, and the District Office is in the neighborhood too.
There's no rail station within the neighborhood or within a kilometer of it, and public transit here ranks 42nd out of Taichung's 47 neighborhoods. The shop signs on Zhongzheng Road were unified back in 1994 and the cables were put underground, but in street-view photos the sidewalks here rank 45th.
Lin Shi, the founding ancestor of the Wufeng Lin Family, came to Taiwan in 1746 and first settled in Daliyi; after the Lin Shuangwen Incident, the third generation's Lin Jiayin moved to Atawu and started over there. Atawu was Wufeng's old name, taken from Atawu Village of the Pingpu Maoluo community, and in 1920 the Japanese standardized the place name to Wufeng. After the war, when the Provincial Government decentralized, agencies like the Provincial Government Council and the Department of Education were based in Wufeng before Zhongxing New Village was completed. In May 1958, the Provisional Provincial Assembly moved into its newly completed hall in Wufeng. The 1999 921 Earthquake badly damaged much of the Lin Family's Dingcuo (Upper House), Xiacuo (Lower House), and Laiyuan Garden, and Xiacuo wasn't open for reservation visits again until 2014. The Provincial Assembly's successor, the Taiwan Provincial Consultative Council, was abolished at the end of 2018, and the following year the site was renamed the Legislative Yuan Democracy Park.
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