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  • hello everyone its Katey here today I would like to welcome you to amping port

  • which is the place I believe that you all know here so Tainan it's a beautiful

  • place for history and I hope you enjoyed that today I'm going to welcome you with

  • me in the early 17th century the Dutch formed military and business force and

  • occupied burned a and pains they built fort zeelandia as the defense fort the

  • fort was completed in 1634 in 1662 after the casino successfully overtook the

  • fort it was renamed and in town for trial india was all so long as washing

  • city of the king the fort was gradually abandoned during the Qin Dynasty the

  • fourth was reconstructed during a Japanese colonial period after world war

  • ii it was renamed and import the only remaining part from the dutch colonial

  • period is the south brick wall at the front of the fort it became an important

  • historical site in Tainan each brick and tile tells the tale of yesteryear and a

  • story of today this wall behind me is the engine wall

  • which remains from the period of Dutch colonial until the date and what is so

  • special is because in the early days there's no cement so they use three

  • different kind of ingredients including the shale ashes syrup and the glutinous

  • rice they used these three ingredients to made up this wall and made a stronger

  • and there is also another special thing on this boat do you want to find it out

  • and as you can see behind me this Caesar iron Caesar pattern is the secret that I

  • just told you before or you can code it wall watts and what does the Warlocks do

  • it attached the beams and the walls together to make this construction

  • stronger to let the walls not being that easy to fold down and which is really

  • important to build a fort and right now we finish all these historical things we

  • can go to that Plaza and to find out what else we can find

  • during the Japanese colonial period the Japanese wanted to commemorate their

  • fight against the Dutch they erected a monument with an inscription that reads

  • the site of the heroic action of Hamada high when the national government came

  • to Taiwan the authorities removed the inscription and carved emping fours to

  • memorialize the fact that fort zeelandia was renamed ending town during the

  • shinga rule since the Dutch built this fort the engine weld here is part of a

  • few remains that remains here and people saying that beneath it there's a secret

  • tunnel that can goes between amping forth and chicken tower to build eternal

  • golden castle and repair residence housing during the Ching dynasty towards

  • the land it was almost leveled the only structures led from the Dutch colonial

  • period are an old wall and two well follow me to go to our next spot to see

  • the memorial oh wow so this is fort zeelandia museum

  • let's go inside and check it out the legend of the secret tunnel underneath

  • the well is disproven here the museum parolee explains the landscape terrain

  • and geographical location of Portlandia when you fear the damping force don't

  • forget to come here well because the court was damaged so badly the Japanese

  • they repair and rebuilt this building easily mayor's colonial period so then

  • it comes this building to preserve the antique things and history the museum

  • also showcases artifact from the Dutch colonial period and the Kasinga rule

  • they are weapons from this time period telling a story left behind in history

  • depending Dutch invoice surrendering is also on display given us a visual

  • representation of that events blue and white porcelain from the Qin Dynasty are

  • preserved here as well alongside artifacts from the Dutch colonial period

  • and the Sangha rule

  • after seeing so many monuments here now let's go top of this tower to see what

  • else and we can fly to you let's go

  • entire city here look out from the tower and you can see surrounding Tainan panel

  • eternal golden castle amping treehouse timecode merchant house amping

  • presbyterian church - hall old julius manic merchant house

  • time assault japanese-style geometry the buildings and things that remain from

  • the ocean time is always the center of historical monument and I really hope

  • you guys can come here and take a look by yourself

hello everyone its Katey here today I would like to welcome you to amping port

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