Dry six villages in Taichung City (painted military dependents)

Ling Tung University in Taichung city dry behind the six villages, history is full of wonderful cultural and creative impact military community.
Refers to military dependents until 1960 since 1949, Chinese mainland provinces of the Republic of China Armed Forces and their dependents, with the result of the civil war defeat and migrated to the ROC government to Taiwan, government agencies to build or configure their villages.

In addition, U.S. military officers stationed in Taiwan, noncommissioned officers and their families in Taiwan dormitories, also known as “military community.” For example, Taichung America Village Road, street will come from “the U.S. military community” for short.

Dozens of families to one hundred military community scale, as approximate isolated single community, although this feature allows close interaction between residents of the same military community, but it is not easy to communicate with the outside community.

Dry city six village, located in Taichung District Dadu plateau in the successful Ling Ling Tung University camps and between Taiwan trade five villages, Matsu two villages and three villages near Taichung large military community and become one of the regions, a total of approximately 800 Juanshe, the total land area of ​​10.28 hectares, the main road for the spring On Road.

Until the end of 2004 in line with military dependents upgrading policy, three villages have been removed on the base Juanshe most surviving dependents Matsu two villages some households living (painted military dependents location).

Also known as rainbow painted military dependents military community, into the alley, is greeted by a series of colorful, full of playful murals, these murals are from at Rainbow Grandpa – Mr. Huang Yongfu’s hands.

Huang Fu-hour very happy to feel the pleasure of painting, 1997 September 27 afternoon, in view of the paint off the walls need repainting, he painted the rise of the idea of ​​picking up the pen the original walls of the old bear had been repainted .

Huang Fu style varied, diverse content, full of passion for life and imagination, the neighbors looked much praise, have invited Huang Bobo home in the paint.

These colorful portraits, animals and color, as it has elements touching the ground, so many tourists specially to watch, suddenly swelled the lonely military community, “Rainbow Village” via the Internet and media coverage , quickly open visibility, Taichung City to become tourist attractions.
However, in 1996, the authorities issued a “national army converted old military dependents Regulations”, the resolution in 2013 before the full removal of the Taiwan military community, converted into apartment buildings, so far, Taiwan’s military community has 887 dropped to hundred at the office, while the sons of the former military dependents, then take compensation or resettlement housing preferential way of doing. The vast majority of veterans (old Guojun brothers) dispersed turn to high-rise apartment living, the former “old military community,” the scene no longer return.

Apart from the above by the “defense” of the military community outside the tube, there are some other orphans military community presence, the so-called “non-military community tube”, like the preface of Huang Fu old man living premises, in fact, according to the six villages surrounding the city of Taichung dry, built by the military self-made group of buildings. These non-tube military dependents, it is because of no dependents or early retired and other reasons, can not live in the tube military dependents, and in the barracks outside tube erected near the military community called “illegal construction” of the military community.

So they painted military dependents faced demolition fate.

As users continue to fight to the local government, city government promised to complete the urban planning changes, to incorporate them into children’s game two, floor area of ​​about 800 by the Department of Cultural Affairs to take over the Rainbow Village, residents pick up the money after all moved out, Yellow Uncle may adopt ways to invite continued creation in the region.

Address：
Chun-an Road, Taichung City, Lane 56
By Car: Freeway Longjing Interchange -> Wucyuan West -> West 3 Wucyuan paragraph -> Gallant Road, turn left -> Jiangong Road, turn right

Reference:

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9C%B7%E6%9D%91
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