這是台灣「最慘烈」地震！重災區中的4座紀念碑｜台中篇【元元】

這是台灣「最慘烈」地震！重災區中的4座紀念碑｜台中篇【元元】

Taiwan is located on the seismic belt Every year, there are countless earthquakes of all sizes Speaking of the earthquake that left the deepest impression on you Which one could it be? 6:02 a.m. on the morning of April 21, 1935 A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the central region To this day, it remains the disaster that caused the highest number of casualties. It resulted in 15,000 injuries and deaths. Nearly 60,000 houses also collapsed This year marks the 90th anniversary Let’s head together to the hardest-hit areas of that time See why it was so serious Hey, I’m Yuan-Yuan Right now behind me It’s the Ziyun Temple in Qingshui Looks like today is for the Ghost Festival offerings So they’ve set up a whole bunch of tables Today I’m going to look for the great earthquake from 90 years ago There are four monuments in Taichung This earthquake actually goes by many different names The official name is the Hsinchu–Taichung Earthquake But because the Tunzaijiao area at the time The devastation was especially horrific So people in Taichung call it the Dūnzǎijiǎo Earthquake Today I’m going to use this special collection of old photographs Entering the three most severely affected disaster areas at the time Searching for the four monuments where people commemorate this earthquake This road I’m walking on now This is Qingshui’s main street It was considered a severely affected area at the time During the Japanese colonial period This stretch of road is the busiest street in Qingshui When the major earthquake occurred Nearly half of the houses in Qingshui collapsed Alright, I’m now at this next to the Qingshui Land Administration Office of Taichung City and right ahead here is from the Japanese colonial period The rear approach path of Qingshui Shrine I didn’t expect the first stop today to be this tough This path seems to have over 280 steps Today’s first monument is on the rear approach of Qingshui Shrine You have to climb straight up You have to climb over ten stories high to reach it At the time the earthquake occurred Qingshui Shrine had not yet been built But this site had already been designated Therefore, after the earthquake they chose to build the monument along the shrine’s approach path Almost there, almost there If we keep going up this stretch, we’ll reach Shimizu Shrine But the first monument we’re collecting today Right on the right side Alright, behind me is the Qingshui Earthquake Disaster Memorial But it actually doesn’t look the way it did during the Japanese colonial period The top and bottom of this monument are made of very different materials This monument was originally supposed to be Memorial Monument for the Victims of the Great Earthquake in Qingshui Street It was erected the year after the earthquake To commemorate what was then the third most severely affected disaster area Over 300 victims on Qingshui Street About the number of victims The two books I consulted this time And the sign posted at the site The figures are all different This really puzzles me In theory, it should be a monument built during the Japanese era But surprisingly, it uses the Minguo calendar on it Over there you can see “Republic of China, Year 65” In 1976 the township office brought in new marble to re-engrave the inscription encasing the old epitaph So that’s why it looks like this now In recent years, there have been attempts to remove the marble to restore it to its original appearance from the Japanese colonial period But because the difficulty is just too high, it can’t be carried out What about the mountain behind in this photo? That’s exactly where I am right now Looking down from here the view is absolutely breathtaking. This earthquake caused a major shift along the Tunzaijiao Fault But according to current research the fault did not pass through the urban area of Qingshui So why did it cause such heavy casualties? The next two major disaster areas were directly cut through by the fault There we can find the real cause of this catastrophic disaster Alright, where I am now is Shengang Back there is the Shengang Health Center And further ahead is the Shengang District Office Here you can see a structure that looks like a torii Alright, I’ve arrived at the second monument we’re collecting today. This is the Shin-kō Great Earthquake Shinkō Village Martyrs Memorial. The location of this monument During the Japanese era, this was the administrative center of Shengang That massive earthquake 90 years ago Shengang was the second most severely affected disaster area This monument was likewise erected the year after the earthquake Used to mourn the more than 530 victims from Shenkang Village Again, the number of people recorded on-site doesn’t quite match the literature The back of this monument still reads “Showa 11” It wasn’t converted to the ROC calendar year And it looks just like the old photos from the Japanese era You could say it looks exactly the same What puzzles me is this marble stele doesn’t seem to have much sense of age. Is it just well preserved? Or was it restored to its original state? Alright, I’m now at Xinzhuang Village in Shengang District. Shengang Village was the second most severely affected place in this earthquake disaster The most severely affected place in Shengang Village is right here What I’ve come here to look for is Why this place was so severely affected This place is actually quite far from the core area of Shengang. It was originally just a relatively large rural settlement. After the earthquake, you could say this place was completely wiped out Almost all the houses collapsed Almost all the casualties in Shengkang Village occurred here Because the Dūnzaijia Fault runs directly beneath this settlement Combined with the fact that the entire village consisted of traditional adobe houses at the time These old houses behind me Were all rebuilt after the earthquake during the Japanese colonial period Actually, the kind of earthen house behind me, a mud-brick house, was also one of the reasons this earthquake was so devastating. Mud-brick houses were a common building form in Taiwan in earlier times People are more used to calling it an earthen house Its advantage is that the materials are easy to obtain and the cost is quite low You just use what’s everywhere in rural areas After mixing straw, rice husks, and soil Shape into rectangles and dry them They can then be used to build houses It’s warm in winter and cool in summer But it actually has one fatal flaw Namely, it’s extremely vulnerable to earthquakes Adobe bricks themselves are extremely, extremely heavy Once they collapse and crush someone It’s basically always very serious Right in front of me is what came after that massive earthquake 90 years ago The area was rebuilt All these earthen houses were rebuilt again You can see it right from this photo Back then, in this Xin Zhuang Zi area Almost all the houses were these kinds of earthen adobe houses Which are adobe houses In fact, after that earthquake Many people became aware of this kind of adobe house Earthquakes are extremely, extremely dangerous But natural disasters cause severe property damage So, with no other choice, they gathered up the scattered adobe bricks Picked them back up to build temporary housing. Later, most of the adobe houses were converted into warehouses. Fewer people lived in them Alright, right now I’m walking along this the DūnZǎiJiǎo Fault’s fault zone the route of this fault It has now been developed into a road Alright, I’ve come to this lookout Down below is the Dajia River valley Over there across the way is an area with many high-rise buildings Back when the Dunzai Jiao earthquake struck It was the most severely affected area That fault line starts right here and runs straight across the Dajia River to downtown Houli on the opposite side What’s now Houli was called Naipu Village at the time The older place name is Dunzai-Jiao The fault ran directly through the core area at the time Causing extremely severe devastation At that time, more than 3,000 people lost their lives across Taiwan. One-third of them were in Naipu Village. Almost all the houses were leveled to the ground Alright, I’m now at the Houli District Office. This district office, during the earthquake 90 years ago, was built the year before And later survived the earthquake Almost no damage—it’s truly amazing Alright, the one behind me is today’s third monument It is the Memorial Monument for the Martyrs of Naipu Village in the Great Earthquake This monument is identical in form to the one in Qingshui It is used to commemorate the more than one thousand victims of that disaster This is not its original location It too did not escape being altered In the year Minguo 55 (1966) The township office excavated the old inscription and re-engraved the text on a new stone slab embedded into the old monument The original Japanese version of the inscription was not recorded This is a great regret I am now at Houli Sports Park The predecessor of this park was Neipu Public School A fault line runs right through this park It passed beneath the then Neipu Public School That fault line is the Dunzai Jiao Fault. Here is an old photo of Neipu Public School being destroyed by the quake back then. At the time, almost all of Neipu Public School’s buildings collapsed This was originally the site of the monument but the exact location can no longer be verified After the earthquake destroyed the Neipu Public School here The school was relocated to the current site of Neipu Elementary School Fortunately, the earthquake struck early on a Sunday morning There were no teachers or students on campus So there were no casualties at the school But another place wasn’t so lucky. Alright, I’m now in Dunsi Village, Houli. I’m here to look for the headman of Houli from that time Which at the time should have been called Neipu The home of the head of Neipu Village This was the residence of Zhang Kan, the village head at the time There were 22 victims just here The Zhang family’s ancestor was the first Han person to come to Houli to open up the land They owned vast tracts of land here Over a thousand people in Naipu Village died after the disaster There was an urgent need for land for burials Therefore, the Zhang family allowed all these people to be buried on their own land Which is now Houli First Cemetery City-designated historic site: Houli Xianban Zhang Family Ancestral Tomb Why are we here? Actually, this is Houli First Cemetery This area is the land donated by the Zhang family Almost all of the victims They were all buried here in the First Public Cemetery. This area is the boundary of Houli First Public Cemetery. There are three very large graves here that all belong to the Zhang family And all of them are designated municipal historic sites This is a Minnan-style cemetery Yet it contains a great many elements of Japanese culture The text carved on the walls on both sides of the tombstone reveals the situation of the earthquake disaster at the time in this large expanse of cemetery Most of those buried here were victims of the great earthquake at the time. As for this large grave in the middle, it belongs to the Zhang family residence that collapsed back then Among them, six victims are buried together here With this, we’ve finished visiting the monuments in the three major disaster areas But in fact, there’s a fourth monument in Taichung too The meaning it represents is very different from the first three Right behind me now is Tai’an Railway Station It is now a designated municipal historic site At that time, Tai’an Station was this kind of wooden station And then you can see The entire station is leaning to the right Alright, I’m going to enter Tai’an Station now But our focus today is We’re looking for monuments At the time of the major earthquake there happened to be a train just about to depart fortunately, it hadn’t left yet Wow, there are so many mosquitoes here. Alright, everyone. Right behind me is this one The fourth monument collected today There are so many mosquitoes So, what’s special about this monument? It’s not meant to commemorate people It’s meant to commemorate an event It’s written right on the monument Taichung Line Earthquake Reconstruction Monument Back then, the Old Mountain Line was called the Taichung Line. And the one along the coast was called the Coastal Line. The epicenter of the Tunzai-jiao earthquake 90 years ago Very close to the Old Mountain Line It caused extremely serious damage to the Old Mountain Line The damaged sections took three years to be repaired and reopened for service There was even a train at the time because the tracks ahead and behind were both cut off over here at what was then called Da’an Station Stopped for as long as three years Destruction along the Old Mountain Line We can dig another hole here again This shell-shaped monument is dedicated to commemorating the restoration and reopening of the Taichung Line railway There are actually seven more (monuments) over in Miaoli. Additionally, the Old Mountain Line also suffered extremely severe damage. I’ll find time later to provide a related introduction Alright, I’m Yuanyuan Remember to subscribe to my channel See you next time The place I’ve just arrived at is a city-designated historic site in Taichung called Zhang Tianji Residence Although his surname is also Zhang he has no relation to the Zhang family of Houli Although at the time when the earthquake occurred It’s already been built. But it didn’t suffer very serious damage. However, it seems the main gate is closed Although it’s a historic site it requires a reservation so we can’t go in right now

今年是這場地震90周年，讓我們一起深入當時最嚴重的三大災區尋找4座紀念碑，並且找看看會那麼嚴重的原因。
1935年發生新竹臺中地震，台中人稱為「墩仔腳地震」；苗栗人稱為「關刀山地震」，這場地震造成苗栗、台中地區極為慘烈的死傷，但為何傷亡會如此集中在清水、神岡以及后里呢?

00:00 引言
00:26 開場
00:59 大甲郡清水街
03:07 豐原郡神崗庄
06:18 豐原郡內埔庄
09:27 意義不同的紀念碑
11:13 撲空的場景

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