The following story was told by our bus tour guide during our church group trip to Ping-Tong few weeks ago. The guide told the story before we arrived Chau-Tun township 草屯鎮 for a nice dinner.
The name Chau-Tun township 草屯鎮 literally translates as a township of 'straw shoe piles'. You may wonder why would 'piles of straw shoes be thrown away here.
Chau-Tun township草屯鎮 locates almost in the middle of the road between Pu-Li township 埔里鎮(the center of Taiwan) and Lu-Kan harbor鹿港鎮. At Lu-Kan, Taiwanese exported deer's hide to Japan in the 18th century. But Han-Taiwanese got their deer hides from the aborigines-Taiwanese in Pu-Li. Those business men would hike long distance from Lu-Kan 鹿港鎮 to Pu-Li 埔里鎮; and would hike from Pu-Li to Lu-Kan day and night. In those time, Taiwanese wore straw shoes. By the time they arrived Chau-Tun from either way, their straw shoes were worn out and were ready to be thrown away.
Thus, this place is called the township of straw-shoe-throw-away-pile, or the Chau-Tun-township 草屯鎮.
Photo shows the map of Chau-Tun township.
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