Meeilei and I love to walk. We went to Dan-Suei淡水 (the mouth of Dan-Suei River, 淡水河) and took a boat ride to the left bank of Dan-Suei river. There, we took an hour hike to walk all the way to a place, called the 'Thirteen-line' 十三行 museum.
The name, 'Thirteen-Line' 十三行, is a strange name for the museum. Meeilei and I initially had no clue what was the museum about. Out of curiosity, we toured the museum. We had such a pleasant surprise after this tour. This museum is actually telling stories about our Taiwanese ancestors. The museum has kept the treasures of one of the tribes of the aborigines (possibly the Ping-Pu tribe 平埔族凱達格蘭人 who had bypassed the bronze age to move directly from the stone age to the iron age about 1800 years ago. The place was accidentally discovered by a pilot who found an unusual magnetic field in the area during one of his routine flying experiences in 1955. Later, scholars in National Taiwan University made extensive investigations of the area and confirmed the first case of Taiwanese ancestors who knew how to extract iron from the minerals.
In the end, Meeilei and I, not only had a good walk but had received great culture education at Dan-Suei 淡水.
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