Twice ToldDanshui tingzhi (1871), juan 13 and juan 2: the entries on Yingge Mountain and Yuan Mountain
- Language
- Chinese
- Reading
- transcribed from the page image
- Translation
- ours
- Retrieved
- 10 October 2026
The Danshui tingzhi (淡水廳志, “Gazetteer of the Tamsui sub-prefecture”) was compiled under the sub-prefect Chen Peigui and printed with prefaces dated 1871. The text below is read from the page images of the National Library of China’s scan of a woodblock copy (call number 地320.11/138), viewed on 2026-10-10 as the Wikimedia Commons copies of the library’s PDFs (volume 卷一十四 for juan 13, volume 卷三 for juan 2; the library’s own record page is the link above). The printed text has no punctuation; the marks here are ours. Characters are given as printed, so they differ in a few places from the Wikisource transcription we read first: 湧 for 涌, 礮 for 炮, 卽 for 即, 裏 for 里, 巖 for 岩, 疊 for 迭 and 云 for 雲. The words are otherwise the same in every entry.
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[juan 13, 古蹟考, folio 1 last column and folio 2 first column] 鶯哥山：在三角湧，與鳶山對峙。相傳吐霧成瘴，偽鄭進軍迷路，礮斷其頸。
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[juan 13, 古蹟考, folio 2] 鳶山：卽飛鳶山，在三角湧，偽鄭亦礮擊其尖，斷痕宛然。
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[juan 2, 封域志, 山川, folio 11] 又有鳶山與鶯哥山對峙，亦隸焉。
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[juan 13, 古蹟考, folio 1] 玉山：在貓裏溪頭山後萬山中，晴霽乃見。巉巖峭拔，疊白如銀，可望不可卽。相傳偽鄭自率步卒往至山麓，遙隔一溪，毒甚，涉者多死，遂止。或袖白石數枚而歸。竹塹一帶亦時見，或以為雪云。
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[juan 13, 古蹟考, folio 6] 國姓井：在大甲堡鐵砧山巔，相傳偽鄭屯兵大甲，以水多瘴毒，乃拔劍斫地，得泉味清洌。旁有小碣，鐫此三字。
Translation
1. Yingge Mountain. At Sanjiaoyong, facing Yuan Mountain. Tradition says it breathed out mist that turned into miasma. The false Zheng advanced his army and lost his way, and cannon broke its neck.
2. Yuan Mountain. Also called Feiyuan Mountain, at Sanjiaoyong. The false Zheng also fired cannon at its peak, and the broken mark is still plain to see.
3. The mountain section. There are also Yuan Mountain and Yingge Mountain, facing each other, which belong to this range as well.
4. Jade Mountain. Far back among countless mountains, behind the mountains at the headwaters of the Maoli stream, seen only in clear weather. Its jagged crags rise sheer, layer upon layer of white like silver, to be looked at but not reached. Tradition says the false Zheng led foot soldiers himself and went as far as the foot of the mountain. A stream lay between, far off, and its poison was so strong that many who waded it died, so he stopped. Some brought back a few white stones in their sleeves. It can sometimes be seen around Zhuqian as well, and some take it for snow, it is said.
5. Guoxing’s Well. On the summit of Tiezhen Mountain in the Dajia district. Tradition says the false Zheng camped his troops at Dajia, and because the water there was full of miasma he drew his sword and struck the ground, and found a spring of clear, cool taste. Beside it stands a small tablet cut with these three characters.
Notes
- 偽鄭, “the false Zheng”, is the Qing gazetteers’ name for the Zheng regime on Taiwan (1661 to 1683); 偽 marks it as illegitimate. In entries 1, 2, 4 and 5 it names a ruler or army without giving a personal name. The word 鄭成功 does not occur anywhere in the Wikisource transcription of the sixteen juan (we searched that text, not the page images). 國姓 (Guoxing, “the imperial surname”) is Koxinga’s byname, and in this text it appears twice, in the well’s name (entry 5) and in a fish list in juan 12 (“俗呼國姓魚，偽鄭至臺始有之”).
- 貓裏溪頭山 in entry 4 is read here as the mountains at the headwaters of the Maoli stream; it could also be a single mountain called Xitou.
- Entry 1 opens its story with 相傳, “tradition says”; entry 2 does not, and gives the broken peak as a mark that can still be seen.
- 三角湧 (written 三角涌 in the Wikisource transcription) is the Sanxia area. 鳶 is a kite, a bird of prey.
- Entries 1 and 2 are the whole of the cannon story in this book. Lin Hao’s critique of the gazetteer (1873) has no remark on them; it does fault the compilers on another entry (juan 14) for placing a 1683 battle at the wrong Keelung.