An old place name from earthen walls, lanes full of temples, and the plant that prints Taiwan's uniform invoices
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Tucheng is an old place name left by the earthen walls Qing-dynasty settlers built for defense. Today's Tucheng Village, Jincheng Village, and Ruicheng Village all split off one after another from the old Tucheng Village, and read together, the names mean "earth gives birth to gold, gold brings good fortune". Temples are everywhere here—the Dali City Gazetteer notes that one lane in Ruicheng Village under 500 meters long has 5 temples and 17 private shrines. Everyday life centers on Tucheng Road and Chenggong Road, home to the Tucheng Road commercial strip, the Chenggong Road food street, and Tucheng Market. In Jincheng Village, the Ministry of Finance's printing plant prints the nation's uniform invoices, and the plant also houses a printing-industry tourist factory.
The neighborhood has three elementary schools—Ruicheng, Tucheng, and Meiqun—all with campuses right within it. Ruicheng Elementary School was classified as a half-collapsed building after the 921 Earthquake and was later rebuilt in full; the park next door was completed after the quake and named 921 Memorial Park. Around Chenggong Children's Park in Jincheng Village there are walking paths and landscaping, good for a weekend stroll. Ruicheng Village also won the Ministry of the Interior's National Outstanding Village award in 2010.
Check the school catchments first: Ruicheng Village's 44 neighborhood wards (lin) are split among three elementary schools, and Jincheng Village is split between two schools as well—kids from the same village can end up at different schools. Greenery in street photos ranks 47th out of Taichung's 47 neighborhoods, the very last. Public transit ranks 44th, also in the lower tier.
A 1902 essay by Mori Ushinosuke recorded chipped stone tools unearthed around Tucheng Village; the area was formerly called Tucheng Zhuang, written with the plain character for "earth". In 1907, the sugar railway set up two stations in Dali—Fanzailiao and Tucheng. In 1922, a branch school of Daliyi Public School was established here, and in 1940 it became independent as Tucheng Public School. In 1976, Jincheng Village split off from Tucheng Village, and in 1982 Ruicheng Village split off as well. In 1989, Ruicheng Village's first temple, Ruihe Temple, was completed.
Compared with the 47 Taichung neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
NHI-contracted hospitals, public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area (estimated from the Taichung City Education Bureau's catchment tables for the 2023 (elementary) and 2022 (junior high) school years, the latest the city has published as open data, treating every neighborhood in a village as equal in size), high schools and universities inside or within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more (OpenStreetMap), and large shopping malls and department stores (OpenStreetMap).
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