Hengchun West Gate

Hengchun is located in the southernmost of Taiwan, on the tip of  Hengchun Peninsula, surrounded by the sea on three sides. Although there have been legends of farming and reclamation since the Ming and Zheng Dynasties, there have also been Fujian and Cantonese Han people and even Pingpu ethnic groups settled there. They lived with the local Seqalu group of the Paiwan people and the Hengchung Amis people who came here earlier. However, as late as the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, it was still a remote place.