Purple Sunny Chang sent me this card about the Wonderful Wuling Farm, a
well known tourist attraction in the central mountain area of Taiwan.
Way before the Central
Highway was completed, Taiwan's aboriginal tribe, the Ataya, had long been
residing along the upper stream of Da-Jia river. The residents of Huanshan,
Sungmao, Lisan and Jiayang tribe in Taichung City lived a self sufficient
farming life.
After the completion of the Central Highway in 1958, there was a gradual increase of population in Wuling, as people engaged in farming or foresting activities gradually moved into this area. A group of cultivators, in the name of "Taiwan's Veteran Cultivation Reclaim Service Station", started to build the "Wuling Cultivation Area" here.
In the spring of 1963,
late president Chiang Ching-kuo, the Chairman of the Vocational Assistance
Commission for Retired Servicemen (now titled Veterans Affairs Commission),
devoted himself to exploring the mountainous areas in search of person with
hardships. He then named the "Wuling Cultivation Area" as "Wuling
Farm" on 10th May 1963, and appointed Mr. Lin De-Gi as the first
director of the farm. At the initial stage, the farm was under the Veteran Farm
Committee.
