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Research of the Taipei Ximen Market History
Abstract
Time is changed and the political power is shifted. From the establishment of a market and through tracing back the history to observe if a regime’s plans and its implementation were affected, and if the administrative implementation would be different because of a people’s nature.
As Chinese proverb said that food is the biggest issue to the civilian Civilians care, the market is where people spent money for living. In the Ching Dynasty, the market was appeared in the form of fair on the beginning and mid dates of a month
in the lunar calendar and people may exchange items or buy things with money. The fair was kind of disordered for it was not well planed in advanced.
The public market establish by Japanese was a creative life style. It was not clear if Japanese did it to learn from the West through Meiji Restoration. The market place was constructed according to the blue print designed in advanced. It was quite different from Chinese style that might be in the form of Eight Diagrams or Cross.
The purpose of this study was to explore the changes of the Taiwanese’s life style and their way of consumption when the Japanese governed Taiwan and constructed the first public market, knows as Ximen Market, on a wild tomb after entered the Taipei City. The new style of market place changed the business behavior and created a new era for the so-called Ximending. The policies and systems relating to the new form of market place and the public facilities at that time that changed the commercial activities were also studied in this research. Whether the policies and systems were inhered from the Japanese government after the Chinese government took over Taiwan after the World War II and those facilities added to stimulate the commercial activities in the area at that time were also focuses in this study. The current status, development, and positioning of the Ximending were also issues studied in this research.
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