Dajia District

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District in Taichung, Taiwan

title: "Dajia District" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["districts-of-taichung", "taiwan-placenames-originating-from-formosan-languages"] description: "District in Taichung, Taiwan" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dajia_District" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary District in Taichung, Taiwan ::

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FieldValue
name
native_name大甲區
native_name_langzh-tw
other_nameTāi-kah, Taikō
settlement_typeDistrict
image_skylineDajia Township 大甲鎮 - panoramio.jpg
image_mapDajia TC.svg
map_captionDajia District in Taichung City
subdivision_typeLocation
subdivision_nameTaichung, Taiwan
area_total_km259
population_as_ofFebruary 2023
population_total74904
population_density_km2auto
website
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Dajia District () is a coastal suburban district in Taichung, Taiwan. It is located on the northwestern corner of Taichung. The climate of the region is Sub-tropical, and the average temperature is roughly 24 degrees Celsius. In March 2012, it was named one of the Top 10 Small Tourist Towns by the Tourism Bureau of Taiwan.{{cite web | last = Wong | first = Maggie Hiufu | date = 30 March 2012 | url = http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/10-coolest-small-tourist-town-taiwan-903796 | title = Taiwan names its 10 top small tourist towns | website = CNN Go | access-date = 31 March 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120402142554/http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/10-coolest-small-tourist-town-taiwan-903796 | archive-date = 2 April 2012 | url-status = dead

History

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The local Taokas tribe people used to live in the area before the Han people arrived. Their main activities were hunting and farming. The Han Chinese started to arrive around 1669 during the Ming dynasty in which most of them came from Fujian, especially Quanzhou. Dajia used to be an urban township of Taichung County. On 25 December 2010, it was upgraded to become a district of the new special municipality of Taichung.{{cite web |url = http://old.dajia.taichung.gov.tw/english/history.php |title = History |date = 6 December 2016 |website = Dajia District Office |access-date = 7 March 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170307204354/http://old.dajia.taichung.gov.tw/english/history.php |archive-date = 7 March 2017 |url-status = dead

Administrative divisions

Zhaoyang, Dajia, Shuntian, Kongmen, Pingan, Zhuangmei, Xinmei, Minshan, Zhongshan, Nanyang, Xunfeng, Yihe, Wuling, Wenqu, Wuqu, Wenwu, Fenghua, Dehua, Jiangnan, Dingdian, Taibai, Mengchun, Xingfu, Rinan, Longquan, Xiqi, Tongan, Fude and Jianxing Village.

Economy

Notable products

  • Dajia East Pottery
  • Yutou etc.
  • Nǎiyóu sū bǐng (奶油酥餅) – A buttery flaky pastry with a thin round shape
  • Purple jade su – a taro dessert

Native products

Industrial products

Tourist attractions

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Dajia_Jenn_Lann_Temple-04.2024-08-27.jpg" caption="Dajia Jenn Lann Temple"] ::

Dajia Mazu Sightseeing Cultural Festival, Taichung A religious and pompous event – Dajia Mazu border-tour of incense-offering

In the spring of Taiwan, amidst blossoming natural flowers, every locality is stirred for the event of welcoming and receiving Mazu. Mazu, being long stalled adored in the temple, is being shouldered by worshippers to view the spring for blessing. Everyone with religious sentiment happily participates in the event of the joyful god-welcoming competitions.

Among these events to welcome Mazu, held in every locality, is the border-tour of incense-offering of "Dajia, Taichung Mazu Sightseeing Cultural Festival." The tour would travel across the city and village of the former Taichung County (now part of Taichung City), Changhua County, Yunlin County, and Chiayi County and is considered to be one of the major events of Taiwan's religious community. As a whole, the tour would march a distance on foot of 330 kilometers, and lasts over 7 days and 8 nights, passing by more than eighty participating temples. During the border-tour of incense-offering, both the traditional folk arts as well as new-generation artistic performance of Taiwan join in the tour for joy, attracting a great deal of attention.

As the worshippers travel through the county and city with the faith of Mazu, they build up friendships with people along the way. During the 7-day and 8-night tour of incense-offering, there are joyful and exciting events and religious prayer as well as concentrated and ascetic sentiments – a co-existence of the heavenly and temporary, while artistic performances of the ancient, contemporary, local, or overseas are staged within the same context of space and time. As a result, the intermingled moments of religious faith and an exhilarating joyful atmosphere have confirmed the religious faith of the people of Taiwan.

In recent years, the festival is increasingly attracting the growing number of Mazu worshippers in mainland China – in 2010 there were more than 2,000 mainland followers from about 40 Mazu temples. President Ma Ying-jeou also attended.

Transportation

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Notable natives

Climate

|metric first=y |single line=y |collapsed = Y |location = Dajia District (2012–2023 normals and extremes) |Jan record high C = 30.3 |Feb record high C = 33.7 |Mar record high C = 33.1 |Apr record high C = 33.3 |May record high C = 38.8 |Jun record high C = 37.1 |Jul record high C = 40.4 |Aug record high C = 38.3 |Sep record high C = 39.2 |Oct record high C = 37.6 |Nov record high C = 34.4 |Dec record high C = 31.0 |Jan record low C = 2.9 |Feb record low C = 6.0 |Mar record low C = 8.7 |Apr record low C = 10.7 |May record low C = 12.6 |Jun record low C = 21.7 |Jul record low C = 21.4 |Aug record low C = 22.0 |Sep record low C = 17.8 |Oct record low C = 14.3 |Nov record low C = 7.2 |Dec record low C = 6.9 |Jan high C = 20.5 |Feb high C = 20.8 |Mar high C = 23.9 |Apr high C = 27.2 |May high C = 30.2 |Jun high C = 32.4 |Jul high C = 33.7 |Aug high C = 32.7 |Sep high C = 32.4 |Oct high C = 29.8 |Nov high C = 26.8 |Dec high C = 22.0 | year high C = |Jan mean C = 16.0 |Feb mean C = 16.1 |Mar mean C = 18.9 |Apr mean C = 22.5 |May mean C = 25.9 |Jun mean C = 28.2 |Jul mean C = 29.0 |Aug mean C = 28.3 |Sep mean C = 27.5 |Oct mean C = 24.7 |Nov mean C = 21.9 |Dec mean C = 17.7 | year mean C = |Jan low C = 12.8 |Feb low C = 13.0 |Mar low C = 14.6 |Apr low C = 19.1 |May low C = 22.7 |Jun low C = 25.2 |Jul low C = 25.8 |Aug low C = 25.2 |Sep low C = 24.2 |Oct low C = 21.4 |Nov low C = 18.5 |Dec low C = 14.7 | year low C = |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 47.8 |Feb precipitation mm = 43.0 |Mar precipitation mm = 92.8 |Apr precipitation mm = 109.8 |May precipitation mm = 284.7 |Jun precipitation mm = 246.8 |Jul precipitation mm = 157.5 |Aug precipitation mm = 330.7 |Sep precipitation mm = 65.0 |Oct precipitation mm = 13.9 |Nov precipitation mm = 28.5 |Dec precipitation mm = 40.5 |year precipitation mm = | Jan precipitation days = 5.6 | Feb precipitation days = 7.2 | Mar precipitation days = 9.6 | Apr precipitation days = 10.0 | May precipitation days = 10.4 | Jun precipitation days = 11.6 | Jul precipitation days = 8.5 | Aug precipitation days = 11.5 | Sep precipitation days = 5.3 | Oct precipitation days = 2.5 | Nov precipitation days = 3.4 | Dec precipitation days = 4.8 | year precipitation days = | Jan humidity = 82.7 | Feb humidity = 84.6 | Mar humidity = 83.9 | Apr humidity = 82.1 | May humidity = 85.7 | Jun humidity = 85.3 | Jul humidity = 82.9 | Aug humidity = 86.6 | Sep humidity = 83.6 | Oct humidity = 78.2 | Nov humidity = 80.7 | Dec humidity = 79.9 | year humidity = |source 1 = Central Weather Administration{{cite web |url = https://codis.cwa.gov.tw/StationData | title = 月報表(逐日資料) : 大甲 (撤銷站) (C0F930) | publisher= Central Weather Administration |access-date = 9 October 2024 }} |source 2 = Atmospheric Science Research and Application Databank (precipitation days and humidity 2000–2023){{cite web |url = https://asrad.pccu.edu.tw/catalog/clim/ | title = 中央氣象署 測站氣候資料 : 臺中大甲 C0F930 | publisher= Atmospheric Science Research and Application Databank |access-date = 9 October 2024 }}

References

References

  1. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8629453.stm Taiwanese festival lures mainland Chinese] {{Webarchive. link. (21 April 2010 , BBC News, 19 April 2010)

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