For many decades, Toad Mountain was a major thoroughfare for transportation and trade. Liugong canal was built to flow by the foot of the mountain as a source of water for residents.
During the Japanese Colonial Era, this area became an important base for the development and modernization of agriculture in Taiwan. Japanese-style office buildings and staff dormitories were built at the foot of the mountain, some of which have been preserved and still stand among the local settlements.
When the Nationalist Government relocated to Taiwan, an Air Force Combat Headquarters was established here and villages were built to house the military personnel. Others who had not been assigned residences built their own homes, and a symbiotic ecosystem evolved between the military families and non-military settlers.
The urbanization of Taipei caused Toad Mountain to become a home for waves of rural individuals migrating to the city, including military veterans from Chinese provinces such as southern Fujian, Hakka, and Indigenous people, who together brought considerable ethnic diversity to the Toad Mountain settlement.
This unique cultural and historical background and geographical relationships brought artists, writers, and film makers to settle here.
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