Walking x Workshop｜Beitou Society Centennial Mountain Trail Walking and Painting Tour

Let’s meet again for a walk and think about the dynamic relationship between mountains and traditional realms! Continuing last year’s Beitou Society Centenary Mountain Trail Excursion, this year we will gather at 4 a.m., and under the leadership of artist Qin Zhengde, we will arrive at Qixing Mountain before it becomes dark, and together we will watch the legend that the shadow of Qixing Mountain sweeps across the Taipei Basin at sunrise. Beautiful scenery. We will have breakfast together while watching the sunrise, eating rice balls to feel the mood of mountain living. Next we will explore the Ketagalan altar and tell the story of its discovery. At the same time, Beitou map expert Yang Ye was invited to lead everyone to draw a historical map with a century-old memory to recreate the scenery of the holy mountain.

Artist Qin Zhengde

Friends call him “Ade”. He was a key figure in the “Culture and Art Department Incident” at that time. He also co-founded the “Xiaocao Art Academy” studio with his classmates because of the “Culture and Art Department Incident”, and he promised himself to be the eternal “Xiaocao N Volunteer” ”, the Academy of Art has been producing postcards based on images found in Taiwan’s historical relics for many years. In addition to the collection of Taiwanese historical documents, he has developed a very personal geographical fieldwork method in the methodology of artistic creation. Through the act of erecting monuments, he reveals and reproduces important fragments of Taiwanese history that have been ignored and forgotten by the grand narrative.

Time Shard Special Operator Yang Ye

He is an expert in domestic navigation map drawing and focuses on the collection and arrangement of documents and historical materials. He started sharing research on literature and history on the Internet in 2005. In 2009, he ranked 2,000th in the world with more than 400,000 blog views. Therefore, he was named the first Taiwanese cultural and history blogger. He was selected for the 2008 Taipei City Government’s “Fifth Congress”. “Little People in the City” Museum Expert, 2010 Cultural Council’s “Taiwan Encyclopedia” Beitou Expert, 2011 “Taipei City Outstanding Citizen” nomination, 2012 the first domestic hand-drawn map exhibition “A Bird’s Eye View of the World – Yang Ye’s Hand-drawn Map Exhibition” 》.