Nanzi District is located at the northern end of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, bordering Ziguan District, Qiaotou District and Yanchao District to the north, Renwu District and Dajiu Community to the east, the Taiwan Strait to the west, and Zuoying District to the south.

This area is located at the northern foot of Shoushan Mountain and Banping Mountain. The terrain is generally flat, with Nanzi Creek, Dianbao Creek, and Houjin Creek flowing through it. The climate is a tropical monsoon climate.

The industry is mainly industrial and commercial.

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Food, Administrative Region Evolution, Geographic Environment, Natural and Humanistic Environment, Prospects, Introduction Nanzi District is located at the northern end of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, bordering Ziguan District, Qiaotou District and Yanchao District to the north, Renwu District and Da Community to the east, and Taiwan to the west

Strait, south to Zuoying District.

This area is located at the northern foot of Shoushan Mountain and Banping Mountain. The terrain is generally flat, with Nanzi Creek, Dianbao Creek and Houjin Creek flowing through it. The climate is tropical monsoon.

The industry is mainly industrial and commercial. PetroChina has a refinery here, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs has also established the Nanzi Processing and Export Zone here to drive the economic development of the area.

Although the general infrastructure is lagging behind that of the urban area, the Kaohsiung City Government has also invested a lot of resources in construction here in recent years, and the development prospects are promising.

Nanzi District History Nanzi District was formerly known as Nanzikeng. Therefore, nanzi trees were planted all over the Dixi River. Therefore, the Han immigrants who moved here called it Nanzikeng.

Since the Ming Dynasty and Zheng Dynasty, immigrants from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, Fujian Province have gradually come here to cultivate land, and by the Qing Dynasty, it gradually became a settlement.

Nanzi District In the early days of the Japanese colonial rule, the Nanzikeng branch office was set up here.

In 1920, Taiwan's local government was restructured and renamed Nanzi. Nanzizhuang was established and placed under the jurisdiction of Gangshan County, Kaohsiung Prefecture. In 1943, Nanzizhuang was abandoned and placed under the jurisdiction of Kaohsiung City, and Nanzi District was established.

After the war, the Houjin area was incorporated into the Nanzi District of Kaohsiung City.

Although most modern written texts refer to this place as Nanzi, the Hokkien spoken language still uses the old name Nanzikeng (vernacular: Lâm-a-khe n). For example, the Hokkien announcements in the trains of the Taiwan Railway Administration are based on this.

Customs The important annual festivals in Nanzi District include the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Hungry Ghost Festival, etc.; and Songbailing Xuantian God Festival, Dajia Mazu incense, Beigang Mazu patrol, Taipei City God Welcome, Donggang Wangchuan Festival

, Erjie Wanggongguohuo and Aboriginal festivals are also important local folk activities in Taiwan.

Harvest festivals, ancestral sacrifices, hunting sacrifices, totems, snake patterns...the mysterious cultural colors of Taiwan's aboriginal people also add different vitality to Taiwanese culture.

In addition, in addition to inheriting the traditional Chinese opera art, Nanzi District has also developed Taiwanese unique Gezi Opera and Puppet Opera. Gezi Opera is a performing art that combines various local operas, tunes and music in Taiwan; Puppet Opera has recently been combined with

The sound and light special effects are widely loved by young people.

Taiwan's film and performance groups have gradually emerged on the international stage in recent years, once again demonstrating the inheritance and innovation of Chinese traditions and Taiwanese local culture.

In the early days of many temple ceremonies in Taiwan, puppetry was one of the most commonly seen folk opera performances.

A simple stage with a few puppets that could reach heaven and earth made the audience mesmerized. It was no less impressive than today's superstar concerts. As the saying goes, "If you are a fool when it comes to theater, you will be a fan of theater watching."

It vividly illustrates the popularity of puppetry in the past.

Bag opera is commonly known as "Zhangzhong Opera" or "Xiaolong". According to legend, in the Ming Dynasty, a scholar who fell in power went to the temple and asked a divination, "Fame and fame are in the palm of your hand, and glory and wealth are in front of you." Sun Shan, who had fallen in fame, wrote the drama

, performed with puppets, unexpectedly became very popular, and thus developed the puppet show today.

The puppet show originated in Quanzhou, Fujian. It was originally a simple stage with a small wooden platform and blue cloth hanging down. It was not until the Qing Dynasty that a finely crafted stage and puppets were developed. After the Qing Dynasty, it became popular.

Folk drama.

Puppet Opera was introduced to Taiwan from Fujian during the Daoguang and Xianfeng years. The original Tangshan master brought the caged opera to the world, and evolved into the lively and noisy Beiguan Opera. The sonorous and lively rhythm is accompanied by horse racing, dueling, flower window dancing,

Stunt performances such as array formations enter folk life in a wonderful and funny way.

After the 1950s, the puppet show has undergone major changes. The gorgeous golden light show has replaced the traditional puppet show. The Beiguan performance in the backcourt has been replaced by a record player. The puppets have also grown to more than twice their original size. Even the original sculptures

The elegant stage color building was also added with special effects such as neon lights and dry ice, and was even put on TV performances, breaking away from the traditional outdoor stage form, causing quite a sensation.

The puppet show has been completely localized, but it has also lost the essence of the simple local slang art.

There are still more than 400 puppet theater troupes in Taiwan, and Yunlin County accounts for one-sixth of them. Among them, there are two important schools, which can be called the center of Taiwan's puppet theater.

Under the trend of seeking roots in local culture, many puppet theater cultural relics museums have been set up in various places in the north and south. In addition, many private theater troupes for primary school students have been established to promote traditional arts.

Gezi Opera is a type of Southern Fujian dialect opera based on the Southern Fujian Gezi opera and absorbing the nutrients of Liyuan Opera, Beiguan Opera, Gaojia Opera, Teochew Opera, Peking Opera and other operas.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, when the national hero Zheng Chenggong traveled east to regain Taiwan, he brought "Jin Ge", a popular folk song in southern Fujian, to Taiwan. It was soon widely sung in Taiwan, and the people spontaneously organized "music clubs" and "music clubs" that sang Jin Ge.

"Ge Zaizhen".