Pingdeng Village was known as “Pdingding,” the river valley plateau of Yangmingshan, in the old days. According to research, Shi-Lan He from Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province first came to Taiwan for reclamation in 1941, followed by Cu Chen and Cheng-Du Lin who entered the mountain for development and subsequently built solid foundation. Between 1821 and 1850, more people entered the mountain to reclaim and opened Pingding Ancient Channel and New Channel for drinking water and irritation, which since led to the growth of paddy rice and tea leaves in the local area.

By 1909, the local people excavated Dengfong Channel under Japanese rule, yielding endless flow of plenty water and providing better development of agriculture in Pingdeng Village and Xishan Village. During the early Taiwan Retrocession, the traffic here was highly inconvenient but under the collaboration of local residents and Chi-Sing Irrigation Association as well as the assistance of Taipei City Government, the road network developed in different directions, where the Pingdeng Village and Xishan Village of the Channel region also become the most famous agricultural center for vegetables, flowers, fruit trees, and leisure in Taipei metropolis. In terms of humanity and culture, Nanguang, Beiguang and the hand puppets in Pingdeng Village are already known in the area after two hundred and fifty years of cultivation and development, exhibiting the splendid spotlight of ancient Channel culture. Currently the Channels are used for providing water resources for various auricular crops and serving as the key maintenance of habitats and environment for living beings.(a)

The Channel was mainly used as a transport route for agricultural water irritation while symbolizing the manifestation of agricultural civilization. Today the building and architectural techniques are in conformity with nature and ecology, thereby the ecological resources surrounding the Channels can be preserved with the abundant and natural look. For this reason, the three Channels comprise enlightenment of ecology conservation, humanistic history, community culture, and other rich implications. The existence of the three Channels offers triple functions for the locality, namely production, ecology and living.(a)

The water quality offered by the three Channels of Pingding Ancient Channel is remarkable. (n)Particularly the Pingding Ancient Channel serves as the primary source of drinking water for local residents while the water resources from Pingding New Channel and Dengfong Channel supply irritation to agricultural land. Today there are still nearly 60 hectares of agricultural land that are irrigated by the water of the three Channels.(a)

In the development process, Pingding Ancient Channel was built with 69 irrigation ditches during the thriving period in 1948, with a total irrigation area of about 3,393.7 hectares. The scale of local irrigation area gradually diminished following the evolution of the environmental, economic and cultural structure in Great Taipei metropolis. By 2012, there are only 23 irrigation ditches remaining in the entire region, with an irrigation area of about 624.48 hectares. Nonetheless the irrigation system of this region varies from 100 meters to 7,000 meters, each of which providing irrigation to agricultural land of different areas. Due to the nature of mountain terrain, the irrigation systems mostly are narrow, small and short, consisting of sporadic aqueducts of reflux, with ten Channels distributed in Qixing Mountain area and situated on 200 meters to 700 meters above sea level. The difference between irrigation heights is quite significant.(f)

Reference material：
(a)Taipei City Chi-Sing Irrigation Association Journal, September 2012
(f)About Chi-Sing Irritation Association – Land, Water and Life, October 2013
(n)Walking along the centennial ancient Channel.

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