39-689: Pingtung County ( Chinese : 屏東縣 ; pinyin : Píngdōng Xìan ) is a county located in southern Taiwan . It has a warm tropical monsoon climate and is known for its agriculture and tourism. Kenting National Park , Taiwan's oldest national park, is located in the county. The county seat is Pingtung City . The name Pingtung means "east of Banping mountain", referring to a nearby mountain known as Banping mountain ( Chinese : 半屏山 ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Pòaⁿ-pêng-soaⁿ ). Aboriginal inhabitants of Liuqiu Island (13 km [8.1 mi] southwest of Taiwan, and now part of Pingtung County) killed Dutch sailors on two occasions. In response, in
78-509: A certain extent in South Korea , remain virtually identical to traditional characters, with variations between the two forms largely stylistic. There has historically been a debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters . Because the simplifications are fairly systematic, it is possible to convert computer-encoded characters between the two sets, with the main issue being ambiguities in simplified representations resulting from
117-629: A service center, workshop, and performance venue. The aim is to promote the development of industries that leverage the unique cultural attributes of the Linali tribe. On 22 September 2015, the National Development Council revealed a three-year large-scale development plan to boost the economy of the county by transforming Dapeng Bay , Donggang Township , and Lamay Island into a fishery, recreational, and tourism hub. Pingtung County houses Taiwan's third nuclear power plant,
156-869: Is 産 (also the accepted form in Japan and Korea), while in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan the accepted form is 產 (also the accepted form in Vietnamese chữ Nôm ). The PRC tends to print material intended for people in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and overseas Chinese in traditional characters. For example, versions of the People's Daily are printed in traditional characters, and both People's Daily and Xinhua have traditional character versions of their website available, using Big5 encoding. Mainland companies selling products in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan use traditional characters in order to communicate with consumers;
195-618: Is known for one of the warmest climates within the country. It has a tropical monsoon climate bordering on a tropical wet and dry climate ( Köppen climate classifications : Am bordering on Aw). The climate differs across the large county due to its varying geography. Northern Pingtung, where Pingtung City is located, is characterized by high daytime temperatures year-round with average daytime highs of 30–40 °C (86–104 °F) from April to November, and 25–28 °C (77–82 °F) from December to March. The lowest nighttime temperatures are around 16 °C (61 °F), due to distance from
234-622: Is the fifth-largest county in Taiwan, and the second-largest of Southern Taiwan after Kaohsiung City . Geographically, it borders Kaohsiung City to the north, Taitung County to the east, the Taiwan Strait to the west and the Bashi Channel to the south. Islands administered by the county include Hsiao Liuchiu (Lamay Islet; 琉球嶼) and Qixingyan (Seven Star Reefs; 七星岩 ). Located in the southernmost part of Taiwan, Pingtung County
273-493: The Chinese Commercial News , World News , and United Daily News all use traditional characters, as do some Hong Kong–based magazines such as Yazhou Zhoukan . The Philippine Chinese Daily uses simplified characters. DVDs are usually subtitled using traditional characters, influenced by media from Taiwan as well as by the two countries sharing the same DVD region , 3. With most having immigrated to
312-528: The Kensiu language . Kaohsiung County Kaohsiung County was a county in southern Taiwan between 1945 and 2010. The county seat was located in Fongshan City . Kaohsiung County was established on 6 December 1945 on the territory of Takao Prefecture ( 高雄州 ) shortly after the end of World War II . In the early years, Kaohsiung County consists of most territory of Takao Prefecture except
351-818: The Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant . The power plant is located in Hengchun Township . It is Taiwan's second-largest nuclear power plant in terms of its capacity at 2 × 890 MW. The Pingtung Line and South-Link Line of the Taiwan Railways Administration cross Pingtung County. These lines service Central Signal , Chaozhou, Donghai, Fangliao , Fangshan , Fangye Signal , Guilai, Jiadong, Jialu , Kanding, Linbian, Linluo, Liukuaicuo , Nanzhou, Neishi , Pingtung , Xishi, Zhen'an and Zhutian Station. The Pingtung Line links Pingtung County with Kaohsiung City , while
390-537: The Ministry of Education and standardized in the Standard Form of National Characters . These forms were predominant in written Chinese until the middle of the 20th century, when various countries that use Chinese characters began standardizing simplified sets of characters, often with characters that existed before as well-known variants of the predominant forms. Simplified characters as codified by
429-767: The People's Republic of China are predominantly used in mainland China , Malaysia, and Singapore. "Traditional" as such is a retronym applied to non-simplified character sets in the wake of widespread use of simplified characters. Traditional characters are commonly used in Taiwan , Hong Kong , and Macau , as well as in most overseas Chinese communities outside of Southeast Asia. As for non-Chinese languages written using Chinese characters, Japanese kanji include many simplified characters known as shinjitai standardized after World War II, sometimes distinct from their simplified Chinese counterparts . Korean hanja , still used to
SECTION 10
#1732772315636468-640: The Shanghainese -language character U+20C8E 𠲎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-20C8E —a composition of 伐 with the ⼝ 'MOUTH' radical—used instead of the Standard Chinese 嗎 ; 吗 . Typefaces often use the initialism TC to signify the use of traditional Chinese characters, as well as SC for simplified Chinese characters . In addition, the Noto, Italy family of typefaces, for example, also provides separate fonts for
507-468: The indigenous Rukai and Paiwan tribes , which makes up 7% of the population. As of January 2023, the total population of Pingtung County was 798,940. The county has been experiencing population decline for 15 consecutive years due to emigration to other cities. As of 2015, Pingtung County had 1,101 registered temples , the third highest amongst Taiwan's counties after Tainan and Kaohsiung . Donglong Temple and Checheng Fu'an Temple are some of
546-704: The Hōzan (Fengshan), Okayama (Kangshan), and Kizan (Chishan) in the Japanese era . In addition, districts in the remaining part of Kaohsiung County was defunct. All townships were directly controlled by the County Government. On 25 December 2010, the county merged with Kaohsiung City to form a larger single special municipality . The subdivisions of the County remains mostly stable between 1950 and 2010. However, some changed has also been made. On 25 December 2010,
585-555: The People's Republic of China, traditional Chinese characters are standardised according to the Table of Comparison between Standard, Traditional and Variant Chinese Characters . Dictionaries published in mainland China generally show both simplified and their traditional counterparts. There are differences between the accepted traditional forms in mainland China and elsewhere, for example the accepted traditional form of 产 in mainland China
624-470: The South-Link Line links Pingtung County with Taitung County . Ferry service operates between Donggang Township and Baisha Port and Dafu Port on the offshore Lamay Island . Traditional Chinese characters Traditional Chinese characters are a standard set of Chinese character forms used to write Chinese languages . In Taiwan , the set of traditional characters is regulated by
663-587: The United States during the second half of the 19th century, Chinese Americans have long used traditional characters. When not providing both, US public notices and signs in Chinese are generally written in traditional characters, more often than in simplified characters. In the past, traditional Chinese was most often encoded on computers using the Big5 standard, which favored traditional characters. However,
702-493: The inverse is equally true as well. In digital media, many cultural phenomena imported from Hong Kong and Taiwan into mainland China, such as music videos, karaoke videos, subtitled movies, and subtitled dramas, use traditional Chinese characters. In Hong Kong and Macau , traditional characters were retained during the colonial period, while the mainland adopted simplified characters. Simplified characters are contemporaneously used to accommodate immigrants and tourists, often from
741-725: The mainland. The increasing use of simplified characters has led to concern among residents regarding protecting what they see as their local heritage. Taiwan has never adopted simplified characters. The use of simplified characters in government documents and educational settings is discouraged by the government of Taiwan. Nevertheless, with sufficient context simplified characters are likely to be successfully read by those used to traditional characters, especially given some previous exposure. Many simplified characters were previously variants that had long been in some use, with systematic stroke simplifications used in folk handwriting since antiquity. Traditional characters were recognized as
780-682: The majority of Chinese text in mainland China are simplified characters , there is no legislation prohibiting the use of traditional Chinese characters, and often traditional Chinese characters remain in use for stylistic and commercial purposes, such as in shopfront displays and advertising. Traditional Chinese characters remain ubiquitous on buildings that predate the promulgation of the current simplification scheme, such as former government buildings, religious buildings, educational institutions, and historical monuments. Traditional Chinese characters continue to be used for ceremonial, cultural, scholarly/academic research, and artistic/decorative purposes. In
819-983: The merging of previously distinct character forms. Many Chinese online newspapers allow users to switch between these character sets. Traditional characters are known by different names throughout the Chinese-speaking world. The government of Taiwan officially refers to traditional Chinese characters as 正體字 ; 正体字 ; zhèngtǐzì ; 'orthodox characters'. This term is also used outside Taiwan to distinguish standard characters, including both simplified, and traditional, from other variants and idiomatic characters . Users of traditional characters elsewhere, as well as those using simplified characters, call traditional characters 繁體字 ; 繁体字 ; fántǐzì ; 'complex characters', 老字 ; lǎozì ; 'old characters', or 全體字 ; 全体字 ; quántǐzì ; 'full characters' to distinguish them from simplified characters. Some argue that since traditional characters are often
SECTION 20
#1732772315636858-451: The most prominent temples in the county. Indigenous tribes like Makatao people also have their own places of worship like Jiaruipu Temple . The agriculture and fishing industries dominate the county's economy. In recent years, the county has also promoted the tourism sector, which constituted 30% of Taiwan's tourism industry in 2015. In February 2014, the county government announced a plan to develop an industrial center that consists of
897-677: The official script in Singapore until 1969, when the government officially adopted Simplified characters. Traditional characters still are widely used in contexts such as in baby and corporation names, advertisements, decorations, official documents and in newspapers. The Chinese Filipino community continues to be one of the most conservative in Southeast Asia regarding simplification. Although major public universities teach in simplified characters, many well-established Chinese schools still use traditional characters. Publications such as
936-700: The original standard forms, they should not be called 'complex'. Conversely, there is a common objection to the description of traditional characters as 'standard', due to them not being used by a large population of Chinese speakers. Additionally, as the process of Chinese character creation often made many characters more elaborate over time, there is sometimes a hesitation to characterize them as 'traditional'. Some people refer to traditional characters as 'proper characters' ( 正字 ; zhèngzì or 正寫 ; zhèngxiě ) and to simplified characters as 簡筆字 ; 简笔字 ; jiǎnbǐzì ; 'simplified-stroke characters' or 減筆字 ; 减笔字 ; jiǎnbǐzì ; 'reduced-stroke characters', as
975-631: The respective subdivisions. Pingtung City is the county seat of Pingtung County which houses the Pingtung County Government and Pingtung County Council . The county head is Magistrate Pan Men-an of the Democratic Progressive Party . Pingtung County elected three Democratic Progressive Party legislators to the Legislative Yuan during the 2016 legislative election . Pingtung is home to
1014-648: The roads were completed. In March 1867, fourteen American sailors were killed near Kenting by local aborigines in the Rover incident , which lead to the failed American Formosa Expedition three months later. In 1871, local aborigines killed 54 sailors from Ryukyu in the Mudan Incident . The Japanese carried out a punitive campaign against the local aborigines in the 1874 Japanese invasion of Taiwan . Under Japanese rule (1895–1945), Hōzan Subprefecture ( Japanese : 鳳山支廳 ) ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Hōng-soaⁿ Chi-thiaⁿ
1053-630: The sea. Central Pingtung, such as the coastal Fangliao Township , has a lower daytime temperatures and warmer nights due to the regulating effect of the ocean, which is especially noticeable during winter. The mildest climate of Pingtung is at its southern tip, the Hengchun Peninsula , which is nearly surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. Daily highs reach 29–32 °C (84–90 °F) during summer and 23–26 °C (73–79 °F) during winter. Nighttime temperatures remain warm throughout
1092-526: The spring of 1636, Dutch sailors carried out a punitive campaign that became known as the Lamey Island Massacre . Modern-day Pingtung County and Kaohsiung City were part of Banlian-chiu (萬年州; Bān-liân-chiu ) during the Kingdom of Tungning (1661–1683) and Fongshan Prefecture (鳳山縣; Hōng-soaⁿ-koān ) during Qing dynasty rule (1683–1895). Until the seventeenth century, this area of Taiwan
1131-417: The territory near cities of Takao ( Kaohsiung ) and Heitō ( Pingtung ). The county is divided into districts ( 區 ), which come from reformed Japanese districts ( 郡 ). The districts are divided into townships. On 16 August 1950, another division reform was implemented. The southern part of the county was separated and established Pingtung County . The remaining Kaohsiung County has territory equivalent to
1170-528: The traditional character set used in Taiwan ( TC ) and the set used in Hong Kong ( HK ). Most Chinese-language webpages now use Unicode for their text. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends the use of the language tag zh-Hant to specify webpage content written with traditional characters. In the Japanese writing system , kyujitai are traditional forms, which were simplified to create shinjitai for standardized Japanese use following World War II. Kyūjitai are mostly congruent with
1209-985: The traditional characters in Chinese, save for minor stylistic variation. Characters that are not included in the jōyō kanji list are generally recommended to be printed in their traditional forms, with a few exceptions. Additionally, there are kokuji , which are kanji wholly created in Japan, rather than originally being borrowed from China. In the Korean writing system , hanja —replaced almost entirely by hangul in South Korea and totally replaced in North Korea —are mostly identical with their traditional counterparts, save minor stylistic variations. As with Japanese, there are autochthonous hanja, known as gukja . Traditional Chinese characters are also used by non-Chinese ethnic groups. The Maniq people living in Thailand and Malaysia use Chinese characters to write
Pingtung County - Misplaced Pages Continue
1248-518: The ubiquitous Unicode standard gives equal weight to simplified and traditional Chinese characters, and has become by far the most popular encoding for Chinese-language text. There are various input method editors (IMEs) available for the input of Chinese characters . Many characters, often dialectical variants, are encoded in Unicode but cannot be inputted using certain IMEs, with one example being
1287-587: The words for simplified and reduced are homophonous in Standard Chinese , both pronounced as jiǎn . The modern shapes of traditional Chinese characters first appeared with the emergence of the clerical script during the Han dynasty c. 200 BCE , with the sets of forms and norms more or less stable since the Southern and Northern dynasties period c. the 5th century . Although
1326-467: The year with lows of around 25 °C (77 °F) during summer and 19 °C (66 °F) during the winter. [REDACTED] Pingtung County is divided into 1 city , 3 urban townships , 21 rural townships , and 8 indigenous mountain townships . Pingtung County has the largest number of rural townships and mountain indigenous townships among the counties of Taiwan. Colors indicate the statutory language status of Hakka and Formosan languages in
1365-527: Was a place of exile for Chinese criminals and the occasional landing point for international mariners . Only the settlements near present-day Checheng Township existed. In 1664, the Hakka settlers arrived from mainland China and farmed under a homesteading system introduced by Zheng Jing . Pingtung City, the biggest city in Pingtung County, also known as "A-Kau" (阿猴; A-kâu , English: the forest),
1404-437: Was downgraded from provincial city to county-administered city and made the county seat of Pingtung County. Pingtung was the site of a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on 26 December 2006. In 2009, due to Typhoon Morakot , Pingtung received over 2,500 millimetres (98 in) of rainfall, breaking records for any place in Taiwan struck by a single typhoon. With a land area of over 2,775 km (1,071 sq mi), Pingtung
1443-415: Was initially under Tainan Ken ( 臺南縣 ) ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Tâi-lâm-koān , but political divisions frequently changed between 1895 and 1901. In 1901, Akō Chō ( 阿猴廳 ) ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : A-kâu-thiaⁿ was established. In 1909, the name changed to Akō Chō ( 阿緱廳 ) ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : A-kâu-thiaⁿ . In 1920, the name was changed to Heitō City ( 屏東市 ) ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Pîn-tong-chhī and
1482-689: Was the home of Taiwanese Plains Aborigines . In 1684, settlers from China's southern Fujian region created the first Han Chinese villages near Pingtung. By 1734, most of the Pingtung Plain was cultivated, and Pingtung was expanded in 1764. In 1836, the government and locals worked together to build the city's four walls (the North Gate, the East Gate, the West Gate, and the South gate), and
1521-490: Was under Takao Prefecture administration, which consisted of modern-day Pingtung County and Kaohsiung . Following the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China on 25 October 1945, the area of present-day Pingtung County was incorporated into Kaohsiung County on 25 December 1945. On 16 August 1950, Pingtung County was established after being separated from Kaohsiung County. On 1 December 1951, Pingtung City
#635364