Monday, August 22, 2011

Great praises and justice

Chia-Yi is a town that is located in the middle of Taiwan. In all the Chinese characters, they have many different meanings with just one character. Chia-Yi is made up of two Chinese characters, which are Chia and Yi. Chia stands for good, praise, and beautify. Yi is one of five Confucianism that many Asian peoe believe in, which are Rain,Yi, Li, Zh, and Shin. Each stands for a polite behavior for people, which are truth, justice, polite, wisdom, trust. Yi stands out the most in these five perspective because justice is how the world become peaceful as the way it is. The background story of the started with this brave worrior, coincidently named Chia-Yi. However, it was not why the name Chia-Yi formed. Chia-Yi is a great place to farm even nowadays. Back then, people get their lands by the law " who gets here first then who gets the land". It was a benefit to all people who held powers greatly, however, weak people don't always get what they want. In fact, some of them do not even get any just because stronger people steal their lands with power. Chia-Yi is a strong person, he is strong in power, also wealthy. He stood up with justice, and he fought for these poor people. He bought lands back to who they belongs to, and he declare the money trading system for owning lands. He was remember greatly for what he had done to the majority people back then, so he was given Chia-Chung, which meant reward. Because he had done something so greatly impressive, people wanted to praise him and remember his, eventually, they named the town after him. Not only because his name was Chia-Yi, but also because he stood up with Yi, and was rewarded with Chia-Chung and great praise.

1 comment:

  1. This story is great. Did you make it up? I love how you used the different words of the name, tied them to history and culture. I would like to read more about Chia Yi's adventures.

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