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Thirteen Villages of Syuejia
Group of villages in Tainan, Taiwan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Thirteen Villages of Syuejia (Chinese: 學甲十三庄; Hanyu Pinyin: xuéjiǎshísānzhuāng;[1] Tongyong Pinyin: syuéjiǎshíhsanjhuang;[1] Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ha̍k-kah-cha̍p-saⁿ-chng[2]) were a group of Taiwanese Mandarin villages built in the seventeenth century CE, in nowadays Syuejia District (學甲區) and Beimen District (北門區), Tainan City, Taiwan. In 1661, when Koxinga arrived in the south-west part of Taiwan, four families from Baijiao Township (白礁鄉), Tonan County (同安縣), Fujian Province, China with the last names Chen (陳), Li (李), Hsieh (謝) and Chuang (莊) came along and built these villages.[3]
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