New Taipei City Travel

Yingge is known for its pottery, so “Yingge Old Street” is also known as the Pottery Old Street. The history of pottery craft has lasted for over 200 years, and is a major pottery township throughout the country reputed as the “Jingde Village” of Taiwan. The entire street is filled with pottery and porcelain related crafts and works, thick in cultural arts. Here you can stroll along the streets and pick out the favorite pottery works of art, or personally experience the fun of pottery making. Besides clay molding and throwing, there are also many authentic cuisines in Yinnge Old Street and its surroundings.

Blue Dye is a traditional Taiwanese cloth dying technique. Woad, once the cash crop of Taiwan was used as colorant. Crisscrossing blue and white flower cloth was made after a complicated dying procedure. Sanxia used to be the center of the cloth dying industry of Taiwan during the late Qing dynasty. Up until this day, one can still see plaques of dye workshop along the street. Almost every family is into cloth dying work at the time, and there are different features and formulas in each one. The Sanxia Cloth Dying industry no longer has the glamour that it used to have, but many of the dying architectures were preserved. The Sanxia Dye Workshop (Blue Dye Display Center) was established for the blue dye culture. The most important thing besides understanding blue dye culture here is to experience blue dyes DIY, creating your own very unique blue dye product!

Visitors are welcome to stroll along this old street and explore the red brick arched corridors and Baroque-style buildings.

Lauded as a palace of Eastern art, the Temple shows the beauty of Eastern religious art.

The “CAN Culture, Art and Nature”located in Sanxia Old Street is reestablished from old houses, and periodically hosts music, plays and photography exhibitions. It is an arts and cultures display area built by a group of youngsters. They issued independent magazines, operate performance platforms and cared for the land and people through real actions. The place is suited for a drink of coffee, a tasty meal and feeling the energy of creativity.

After you visit the Qingshui Zushi Temple, you can go to this gallery if you want to know more about the life stories of Li Mei-shu. The small gallery exhibits masterpieces, personal items and documents of the art master. Some of his works are ingenious, such as Boy Teasing Turkey, which was painted with 3D skills like that of Mona Lisa’s Smile.