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Walking through the 31 townships of Nan-ying, it is here that you will discover the original villages of Tainan. Everywhere you can see relics, ceramic pieces, brick-tiles, stone implements and fossils that tell the long, rich and pluralistic history of this land. The temple cultures, folk-formation legacies, literatures and books of Singang along with the culture of Siraya Pingpu tribe record the beauty of the humanity in the Nanying great land. The golden-yellow spikes of rice in the villages and small towns, the red and white lotus farms, the rich creaming milk smell, the artificial wetlands and the green light gallery deliver a heart-touching story of community development.  These are the touching and proud cultural images of Nanying. My cultural envision of Nanying is founded on this base, built together with companions sharing similar cultural interest.

Tainan County is comprised of 31 townships with a population of 1.1 million. It has been my goal for the countryside residents to share same arts and culture resources; therefore, “sending the arts and cultures to your home” has been the direction that the Cultural Affairs Bureau is actively working on. Beginning with “Nan-ying International Folklore Festival” in 2003 and “Nan-ying Children's Film Festival” in 2004, the Cultural Affairs Bureau had planed series of high-class arts festivals to perform at each of the villages and towns, which gained quite many number of praises from the County residents and is also considered to be the best representation for carrying out cultural civil rights.

Cultural endeavors is something that if you don't do today then you will regret it tomorrow; especially in regards to collecting historical materials of humanity, for once it is lost, it's close to be impossible to research or recover. The Cultural Affairs Bureau had started a series called “The Nan-ying Culture” they planed 10 years ago and so far they have finished 50 pamphlets in this series. In the beginning of 2005, with support from County Mayor Su, they combine the humanity history of Nan-ying collected and recorded by the academic realm along with the local culture and history personnel then finished them in record time (10 pamphlets a year.) At the same time, they supplemented visual records and old generations' oral descriptions to make the establishment of human history information more complete. They also held numerous academic research meetings, such as, the academic composition meeting of the Siraya Pingpu Tribe, the developing history of Tainan County along with the academic research meeting of the reversed wind at the inner sea, the international academic research meeting of Nan-ying Study and also conducted the human history meeting of having the college students to return to their hometowns to look for their origins, which cultivates the young generations' understanding and emphasis to their hometown. In the future, they will construct “Nan-ying Study” furthermore with this basis.

Tainan County was developed quite early, therefore there are many buildings that have retained real estate value possessing documentations yet these building are continually disappearing. Nevertheless, these relics and historic buildings that have been identified by Tainan County have already reached 34, of which 2/3 of these relics and historical architectures have had repairs done in recent years. What is worth mentioning is that most recent county-relic “original Tainan water canal” has been approved as the 19th national relic by the Ministry of the Interior, which shows its value and importance. In the future, we will focus vitalization and utilization of these buildings to provide the public with better relic and historical architecture trips so as to re-appear its elegant features.

The overall construction of the community has been advancing for the last 10 years. It is not easy for a policy to gain greater and greater emphasis as time has elapsed these past 10 years. Community planning has been plowing deeply in Tainan County and has already started to sprout which is evident with the beautifying of the environment, the rejuvenation of traditional agriculture and the participation of public affairs. With the outcome seen in the communities and the participations of many units like environment protectionists, town organizations and residents and health department, the “cultural-creativity industry” will be the main theme for the Cultural Affairs Bureau to promote the overall community planning in the future. It is also expected to have new creativities to this plan so as to develop new industries of the community, new literature atmosphere and new way of living.

"Culture is life"; a good life must have a good culture. Hopefully our hard work can bring County residents an excellent living quality with cultures everywhere.