National Palace Museum

Introduction

The NPM ( National Place Museum ) also named “Chinese Culture Treasury”, collection not only plentiful but also widely. They offer 7 kinds of professional guide language service include Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish and Korean. Also hold the different culture research conference, designated lecture, and circuit exhibition regularly. Publish more than 130 kinds of periodical and publication, really the world treasure center.

The collection of cultural artifacts held inside the NPM is consisted of an enormous treasure trove of objects include Bonzes, Calligraphy, Painting, Ceramic, Rare Books, Arts and Palace Curios. In Bonzes selection, famous like “ Mao-Kung Ting” , calligraphy and painting about 9,120pcs, ceramic mostly came from Song 5 famous official ceramic workshop, Ming and Ching official ceramic workshop. Rare books collection quite completely in Song, Yuan and Ming, Curios and Art is the specialty for NPM, palace curios include the instruments for Shamanism and Tibet Buddhism, very special on the religion style.

09:00-09:15 go ahead to tainan train station.

09:15-12:00 Take high speed rail to Taipei

12:30-13:30 Lunch time

13:30-17:00 National Palace Museum

17:00-18:00 go ahead to Hotel

10 people

NT$7200 (include: english guide, train, ticket, lunch, Single Room(1 night), Travel Agency Performance Bond Insurance.)

NT$5200 (include: english guide, train, ticket, lunch, Double Room(1 night), Travel Agency Performance Bond Insurance.)

NT$3200 (include: english guide, train, ticket, lunch, Travel Agency Performance Bond Insurance.)

Form (email or fax back to us before 30 Nov.)

Fo Guang Shan Buddha Memorial Center

Introduction

Buddha Memorial Hall, Geologically seated in west and face toward east direction, covering a total area of one hundred hectares, it took nine years to finish, and design was amended for many times, becoming this main topic style, the main building on the central axial line, from east to the west follow buildings was called "Welcome Hall”,” Eight Pagodas”,” PhotoTerrace” , “Bodhi square “, “ Main building”, and “Glory Buda”. “Soul Hill” located at south, Gion garden located at north. The Museum pattern is “Eight pagodas” in front, “Glory Buda “ at back, south get “Soul Hill”, “Gion garden” at north.

Memorial Museum
The building height is about 50 meters, area of 4,000 pings, style as covered bowl tower, total get seven floors. Inside main temple with Gold Buddha temple, Jade Buddha temple, Relics temple, Guanyin temple, Ta Jue Hall. In addition to the museum dedicated to the Buda tooth relic, but also has a large multifunction display space. There are four pagodas at four sides, the tower alcove embossed, each tower has Buddha statues. Underground has 48 underground palace, showing all kinds of related artifacts, but every hundred years will open a room, turn on all the underground palace would take 4800 years.

Bodhi Square , Photo terrace
Bodhi Square area can allowed 30,000 persons at same time, there are 18 Lohan status surround, along the gallery were embossed the story of Buddha and the buda praise from the book of Great Master. In front of the square, there are 37 steps for visitor to take photo, as the symbolize 37 stages in Buddhism.

09:00-10:30 go ahead to Fo Guang Shan Buddha Memorial Center

10:30-15:00 Fo Guang Shan Buddha Memorial Center

(12:20-13:20 Lunch -vegetarin food)

15:00-16:30 go ahead to NCKU

10 people

NT$2000 (include: english guide, transportation, lunch,Travel Agency Performance Bond Insurance.)

Form (email or fax back to us before 30 Nov.)

Chih-kan Tower

Introduction

The Chih-kan Tower is located at the intersection of Chihkan St. and Minzu Rd. It was established by the Dutch. The Hans called the Dutch Hongmao and thus, called Chih-kan Tower Hongmao Castle or Fanzai Tower. The Spanish tried to occupy Taiwan but failed in 1598. After the Dutch occupied Penghu and were later expelled by the Ming government in 1622 (the 2nd year of Tianqu in the Ming Dynasty), they turned to Dayuan and started a planned colonial governance in Taiwan. The Dutch first established Zeelandia to strengthen their domination and after the Guo Huai-Yi Incident in 1652 established Provintia in 1653. Because Provintia was built in Chihkan, the local people called it Chihkan City. After the defeat in Nanjing, Cheng-Gong Zheng planned to occupy Taiwan and use it as a base to fight against the Qing and restore Ming. In 1661 (the 15th year of Yongli in the Ming Dynasty), Cheng-Gong Zheng selected Chih-kan Tower, where the defense is relatively weak, as the first target and forced the Dutch to retreat from Taiwan on December 13, 1661. It took eight months to fight off the Dutch and terminate their 38-year colonization in Taiwan. General Lang Shi defeated Zheng's army and ended the rule of the Zheng dynasty in 1683 (the 22nd year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty).

After Taiwan was incorporated in the Qing Dynasty, Chih-kan Tower was still used for the storage of munitions. During the Zhu Yi-Gui Incident in 1721 (the 60th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty), in which the surviving people of the Ming-Zheng era fought against Qing for the restoration of Ming, the army dismantled the cast-iron tablet, on which four Dutch words are cast, out of the front door of Chih-kan Tower and used the iron to make weapons. Chih-kan Tower was damaged for the first time in this incident and sustained damage continuously afterwards. In 1750 (the 15th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty), Ding-Mei Lu, the chief magistrate of the county moved his office to the right side of Chih-kan Tower. He repaired and maintained the tower and opened it to the public regularly. The “Chihkan Sunset Light” has won fame as one of the eight famous landscapes in Tainan since then. The followers of Guanyin built a Dashi Temple on the tower in the first year of Tongzhi. When the Qing-French War broke out, Ming-Chuan Liu ordered Shou-Qian Shen, the Taiwan Prefect at the time, to dismantle the tower built during the Dutch colonial era. The Dashi Temple was affected, too. In 1886 (the 12th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty), Shou-Qian Shen built the Penghu School to the north of Chih-kan Tower to improve local culture and education. He also filled the base of Chih-kan Tower and leveled it. He then built the Wenchang Attic, Wuzi Shrine and Haishen Temple on the platform.

08:30-21:30

Bus 3、5、88、99 ( get off at Chih-Kan Tower )

Tainan City Dynamic Bus Information System

NT$50(ticket)