Yujing (玉井; lit. “jade well”) Township was formally called 大武壟 (Hoklo: dwa-bu-leng; lit. “large military ridge-in-paddy”), was originally the Siraya (西拉雅) Plains Aborigine [other sources say Tsou (鄒) Aborigine] Tapani (噍吧哖) community. Abe suggests that 17th-century Dutch references to "Dobale" and "Daubali" could refer to here.
In 1915, ex-policeman Yu Qing-fang (余清芳) led Han Chinese and Aborigines in an uprising against Japanese rule known to historians as the Tapani Incident (噍吧哖事件) or Xilai Temple Incident (西來庵事件). In this—as well as the subsequent Japanese military suppression, revenge on non-combatants, arrests and death sentences, and associated diseases and famines—more people (probably several thousand) died than in any other anti-Japanese incident.
In the revision of place names of 1920, the obscure characters 噍吧哖 (“tapani”; [no literal meaning, these characters are have only phonetic value]）were changed in accordance with Japansee pronunciation to 玉井 (Japanese: tama-i). Pronounced yujing in Mandarin by the ROC administration, this name is used to the present day.
Yuching (玉井) alternative romanisation of Yujing.
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