Shizi Township is a mountain indigenous township in

Pingtung County Pingtung County is a county located in southern Taiwan. It has a warm tropical monsoon climate and is known for its agriculture and tourism. Kenting National Park, Taiwan's oldest national park, is located in the county. The county seat is Pin ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...

. It is the largest township of the county. The main population is the Paiwan people of the

Taiwanese aborigines Taiwanese may refer to: * Taiwanese language, another name for Taiwanese Hokkien * Something from or related to Taiwan (Formosa) * Taiwanese aborigines, the indigenous people of Taiwan * Han Taiwanese Han Taiwanese, Taiwanese Han (), Taiwane ...

Names

The original Paiwan name for the area was Tjakuvukuvulj (Tjakuvukuvuɬ; historically rendered as ''Chaobo Obol'' or in ). Han Chinese settlers noted a rock outcropping in the shape of a lion's head () and called the village ''Sai-a-thau-sia'' (). Under

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

rule, the name was changed to the current ''Shizi'', though in Taiwanese Hokkien the name ''Sai-a-thau'' is still normally used in spoken contexts.

Geography

The terrain of Shizi is mountainous, as the district is located near Taiwan's Central Mountain Range.

Administrative divisions

The township comprises eight villages: * Caopu () (Paiwan: ''Supaw'') * Danlu () (Paiwan: ''Tjakuljakuljai'') * Fenglin ()(Paiwan: ''Kaidi/Naimalipa'') * Nanshi () (Paiwan: ''Nansiku/Tjuladu'') * Neishi () (Paiwan: ''Kacedas'') * Neiwen () (Paiwan: ''Naibun/Tjakuvukuvulj'') * Shizi () (Paiwan: ''Tjaqaciljai'') * Zhukeng () (Paiwan: ''Tjuruguai'')

Economy

Agriculture

Agriculture produced in the township includes mangoes, bird's-nest ferns and

watermelons Watermelon (''Citrullus lanatus'') is a flowering plant species of the Cucurbitaceae family and the name of its edible fruit. A scrambling and trailing vine-like plant, it is a highly cultivated fruit worldwide, with more than 1,000 varie ...

Tourist attractions

Places of interest in or around Shizi are

Shuangliu Forest Recreation Area Shuangliu Forest Recreation Area () is a forest in Caopu Village, Shizi Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan. Geology The forest spans an area of at an elevation of above sea level and annual mean temperature of . The highest point of the fores ...

, the Cultural Objects Museum, Lilongshan and Neiwen Village.

Transportation

Shizi is connected via railway through the

TRA Tra or TRA may refer to: Biology * TRA (gene), in humans encodes the protein T-cell receptor alpha locus * Tra (gene), in ''Drosophila melanogaster'' encodes the protein female-specific protein transformer * Tra gene, a transfer gene * Triple rele ...

South-Link Line. A key station is

Fangshan Station Fangshan () is a railway station on the Taiwan Railways Administration South-link line located in Shizi Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of ...

. Two highways run through the township: Provincial Highway No.1 and Provincial Highway No.9 (

South-Link Highway The South Link Highway is a section of Provincial Highway No. 9 from Taitung City to Fenggang, Pingtung County in Taiwan. The section of the highway from Taitung to Ansuo is coastal road, the rest passes through the Central Mountain Range thr ...

References

External links

Shizi Township Office website
{{Coord, 22.2018, N, 120.7054, E, source:wikidata, display=title Townships in Pingtung County