Huashan Creative Culture Park was formerly known as Taipei Distillery. Why is it called Huashan 1914? This is because in 1914, during the Japanese rule period, the newly built brewery produced the first famous Butterfly Orchid Sake in October 1914, and since then, the Fang Brewery (later the predecessor of Taipei Liquor Factory) flourished for a while, and was later transformed into the Camphor Corporation. After the Japanese occupation, the Republic of China (R.O.C.) government took over the brewery and the camphor factory, and the products were changed from sake to rice wine.
In the 1980s, because Huashan was located in the center of Taipei City, the Tobacco and Alcohol Administration decided to relocate the factory to Linkou in 1987 in line with the Taipei City Urban Plan due to the soaring land prices in the city along with the economic development, and the problem of water pollution caused by the production of alcohol, and the land was left unoccupied.In 1992, the then Legislative Yuan once selected this site as the new site for its new hospital, but due to budgetary problems, the decision was finally rejected.In 1997, arts and social activist Tang Huangzhen and others found that the former site of the Taipei Distillery, which had been abandoned for ten years, was suitable for use as a diversified arts and cultural exhibition space. In 1997, arts and social movement worker Tang Huangzhen and others found that the former Taipei Distillery site, which had been abandoned for ten years at the time, was suitable to be used as a space for diversified arts and cultural performances, so they began to fight for the use of this site as an arts and cultural zone, and later began to adjust it to become a creative and cultural park in 2002 or so. It was only after the Taiwan Cultural and Creative Development Corporation (TCCDC) moved into the park in 2007 that Huashan gradually became a shopping district where small stores of the literati gather, and it was almost after I left Taipei and moved abroad that I came here for the first time this year.
Nowadays, Huashan is still a diversified arts and cultural space. The old distillery buildings have been converted into stores, and the exterior of these monuments has been well-maintained, making it especially relaxing to walk around the park. With a variety of special exhibitions and a movie theater, the park is a collection of the best of Taipei's arts and culture.
If you like handicrafts, leather jewelry, wood carvings and other small items, you can't go wrong with shopping in Huashan. There is a good mix of culture and commerce here (which I've recently discovered is one of the key points of Taipei's cityscape), and the goods are all quite unique, making it an enjoyable afternoon of shopping for someone who doesn't like to shop.
In addition to the stores, there is also a wide selection of restaurants. Just wandering around, watching street performers, a dime did not spend inexplicably forgettable afternoon. There is also a hidden bookstore on the second floor, where you can sit quietly away from the hustle and bustle, read a book and drink a cup of coffee (another Taipei specialty), and enjoy the feeling of being a literati. Looking down from the open space on the second floor, isn't it very artistic?
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