Walking x Workshop｜Stand up-Pinch out the triangle point of Qixing Mountain

Leader｜Artist Qin Zhengde & Li Kuanchi

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan adopted German land surveying technology and set up square stone markers on the ground as permanent markers.

After Japan colonized Taiwan, the Provisional Taiwan Land Survey Bureau was established in the Taiwan Governor-General’s Office for practical management needs. It quickly completed the basic land survey in three years in Meiji 36 (1903) and buried 1,028 third-class triangular point landmarks. During the burial process, Taiwanese aboriginal people were often recruited to carry out transportation operations.

There is a first-class triangular point on the top of Qixing Mountain, and Qixing Mountain is also the sacred mountain in the legend of the Ketagalan people. In 2018, during the “Beitou Society Centenary Mountain Trail Walking and Painting Tour” activity, we set out at four o’clock in the morning. Look for the shadow of Qixing Mountain sweeping across the Taipei Basin at sunrise. This time we set out at the same time again to look for the figure of Qixing Mountain at Sunrise and the altar of the Ketagalan tribe. We also explored the triangular point of Qixing Mountain. Everyone created pottery together and made their own triangular point of Qixing Mountain.