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These research files analyze the Sanxia District through a multi-layered cosmological and historical lens, mapping how different cultural belief systems have shaped the region's landscape. The documents categorize the area’s identity into four primary strata: the indigenous Ketagalan and Atayal foundations, the dominant Han Chinese folk beliefs, and the transformative Japanese colonial influence. Specific case studies examine the 1895 resistance against Japanese forces at the "triangular water" confluence and the decades-long reconstruction of the Zushi Temple as a form of cultural preservation during the White Terror era. The text also investigates the rise and fall of the indigo and camphor industries, linking economic cycles to the spiritual significance of the local environment. Ultimately, the sources propose that Sanxia functions as a site of continuous cosmological succession, where every new era attempts to overwrite but never fully erases the spiritual and material traces of the past.

The Unwritten Pages of Yesterday Listen carefully to the long wind and speak of the old river

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