Yangmingshan

Yangmingshan National Park (Шаблон:Zh) is one of the nine national parks in Taiwan, located between Taipei and New Taipei City. The districts that house parts of the park grounds include Taipei's Beitou and Shilin Districts; and New Taipei's Wanli, Jinshan and Sanzhi Districts. The National Park is famous for its cherry blossoms, hot springs, sulfur deposits, fumaroles, venomous snakes, and hiking trails, including Taiwan's tallest dormant volcano, Seven Star Mountain (1,120 m).

History

This mountain range was originally called Grass Mountain (草山; Шаблон:Zh) during the Qing Dynasty, in reference to Datun Mountain (大屯山; Шаблон:Zh). Officials during this period were worried about thieves stealing sulfur from the rich sulfur deposits in the area so they would regularly set fire to the mountain. Thus, only grass and not trees could be seen.

Daiton National Park (大屯国立公園), Taiwan's first national park, was one of three National Parks designated by Governor-General of Taiwan Seizō Kobayashi during Japanese rule in 1937.

In 1950, President Chiang Kai-shek, in order to commemorate the Ming Dynasty scholar Wang Yangming renamed the Grass Mountain to Yangmingshan. In 1962, the then Taiwan Provincial Bureau of Public Works began to plan the Yangmingshan National Park. The initial planning area was 28,400 hectares, including Mount Guanyin and the Tatun Volcano Group.

Landscape and geology

Different from the high mountain national parks, Yangmingshan National Park has a lower elevation. Even though mountain elevations range from only 200–1120 meters, beautiful landscapes such as ridges, valleys, lakes, waterfalls and basins are abundant. Andesite rocks make up most of the area's geology.

Flora and fauna

Due to the effects of post-volcanic activity and precipitation, soil in the region is highly acidic. With the influence of the northeast monsoon and the area's microclimates, winter temperatures are much lower than the surrounding areas. The above factors cause the vegetation to differ from those in other regions at the same latitude. Some medium and high altitude plants can be found here such as Bird-lime Tree and Hairy Japanese Maple. Vegetation groups can be divided into subtropical monsoon rain forests, temperate evergreen broadleaf forests and mountain ridge grasslands. There are 1360 species of vascular bundle plants in the region. Some of the common ones are Red Nanmu, Large-leaved Machilus, Formosan Sweet Gum, Taiwan Cherry, Mori cleyera and Dark Spotted Cherry. The most famous is Taiwan Isoetes in Menghuan pond, an aquatic fern only found in Taiwan. Mt. Datun is one of the most well known places to see some of the 168 different species of butterflies in northern Taiwan. The best time to view the butterflies is from May to August. The most common ones are from the Families Papilionidae, Danainae and Nymphalidae. There are also 122 species of birds in the region.

Historical and cultural sites

  • Chinese Culture University
  • Grass Mountain Chateau - Summer residence of Chiang Kai-shek
  • Yangmingshuwu - Former Kuomintang Party Archives
  • Taipei European School
  • Chung-Shan Building - Meeting place of the now defunct National Assembly of the Republic of China
  • Former Yangmingshan American Military Housing
  • Guangfu Building - Built in 1971 in Northern Chinese palace style architecture to commemorate the Xinhai Revolution.
  • Yangmingshan No.1 Public Cemetery - Contains the graves of Sun Fo and Homer Lea.
  • Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery
  • Tomb of Yu Youren
  • Home and grave of famous writer Lin Yutang
  • Tomb of Puru, painter, educator and cousin of China's last emperor Puyi.

Gallery

See also

  • List of national parks in Taiwan
  • Tatun Volcano Group
  • Qixing Mountain (Taipei)

References

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External links

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Jin Ngee Chia
18 September 2014
This area is big with lots to offer besides the flower clock. Go to their visitor center to get brochures for their doable day hikes. See the sulfur fumaroles of Xiaoyoukeng and hike to Cixingshan.
Lisette
30 April 2015
The park has lots to offer and several different hiking routes to choose. Wear warm and waterproof clothes and bring some chocolates and water in case if you get lost in the mountain trails
ianlanlanian
26 September 2015
Walk the track from visitor centre to the summit back down to the sulphur pit on the other side! From there you can catch a minibus back to the centre. Amazing views!
Yone L
31 January 2018
Worth more than one visit, plenty of different trails to hike on and in varying difficulties for beginner hikers and also more strenuous ones. Gets super busy on weekends
Shirley Liu
22 April 2015
Beautiful drive up, the flower clock, and lots of greens to see during your hike. Try to come in February/March when the Sakuras are in season
Gregory K.
9 February 2021
Great hiking trails all over the park. Volcano ???? trails. Grassland trails. Hot spring trails . Etc
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Mon 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
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