Shulin District


Shulin District is an inner city district in southwestern New [Taipei City], Taiwan.

History

On August 1, 1946, seventeen urban villages were divided from Yingge Township and made into Shulin Township.
Shulin was upgraded to a county-administered city of Taipei County on 4 October 1999 from an urban township, and to a district of New Taipei City on 25 December 2010.

Administrative divisions

Shulin District administers forty-two urban villages:
  • Sanxing, Sanfu, Sanduo, Sanlong, Qiangliao, Guangxing, Jinliao, Tandi, Wenlin, Baoan, Zunan, Zunfu, Zunmin, Zunsheng, Shude, Shufu, Shuxi, Shuxing, Shuren, Yuying, Shunan, Ponei, Shutung, Shubei, Pengfu, Heping, Pengxing, Pengcuo, Datong, Zhonghua, Taishun, Tungsheng, Tungyang, Tungshan, Shanjia, Zhongshan, Leshan, Ganyuan, Xiyuan, Nanyuan, Tungyuan and Beiyuan Village.

    Religion

is the most commonly accepted deity in Shulin District. The most important holiday in Shulin is the birthday of Baosheng Dadi, which falls on the fifteenth day of the third month of the Chinese lunar calendar.
The people of Ganyuan celebrate a festival for Baoyi daifu on the first day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar.
A hog is sacrificed every year on the sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

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