¬ Exploring Taiwan's history, culture and languages through its place names
Tuesday 25 January 2022
Wenshan (文山) District, Taipei City
Wenshan (文山: lit. "Culture / Script Mountain") District was formed in 1990 by merging the earlier Muzha and Jingmei districts.
"Wenshan" itself represented the late 19th-century re-adoption of an earlier name for a region on the southern side of the Taipei Basin, from Xindian in the west to Pinglin in the east and Wulai in the south, in an attempt to gentrify the earlier name of Quanshan (拳山; lit. "Fist Mountain", a description of the knuckle-shaped hills).
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