Changhua City
on Foot

You have already been here. Changhua Station is where you change buses for Lukang, and where you pass through on the way to almost anywhere else. What almost nobody realizes is that three of the county's best things are within walking distance of the platform you were standing on.

你已經來過這裡了。彰化車站是你轉車去鹿港的地方，也是你去幾乎任何地方都會經過的地方。 幾乎沒有人意識到的是：全縣最好的三樣東西，就在你站過的那個月台的步行範圍內。

Section 01The roundhouse — plan the day around this one

The Changhua Roundhouse 扇形車庫 is a fan-shaped locomotive depot: twelve stalls radiating from a turntable, with engines rotated into place one at a time. It has been working for about a century, and it is the only surviving fan-shaped roundhouse in Taiwan. It is not a museum reconstruction. It is a functioning railway facility that lets you stand and watch.

扇形車庫是扇形的機車庫：十二股道從轉車盤呈放射狀展開，火車頭一輛一輛被轉進定位。 它已經運作了大約一個世紀，而且是全台僅存的扇形車庫。 它不是博物館的復原品，而是一座還在運轉、並且開放你站著看的鐵路設施。

Note what this means in practice: the roundhouse and Lukang Old Street are both shut on Mondays. If Monday is your only free day, Changhua County is telling you to stay home and rest.

注意這在實務上的意思：扇形車庫和鹿港老街都是週一休。 如果你只有星期一有空，那是彰化縣在告訴你：待在家裡休息吧。

Section 02Bagua Mountain and the Great Buddha

The Great Buddha 八卦山大佛 sits above the city on Bagua Plateau, completed in 1961 and for a time described as the largest Buddha statue in East Asia. You can walk up from the city; the climb is short by the standards of anywhere else in Taiwan, because Changhua is the lowest-lying county on the island and this is the only real height in it.

八卦山大佛坐在八卦台地上俯瞰市區，1961 年竣工，曾一度被稱為東亞第一大佛。 從市區可以走上去；以台灣其他地方的標準來說這段爬升很短，因為彰化是全島海拔最低的縣，而這是縣內唯一真正的高度。

From the top you can see the whole Changhua plain — and on a clear day, the flat land running west toward the coast you visited in chapter 2. It is the single best way to understand the shape of the county you are working in.

從山上可以看見整片彰化平原——天氣好的時候，還看得到平地一路向西延伸到你在第二章去過的那片海岸。 這是理解你工作所在這個縣的形狀最好的方式。

Section 03The Confucian Temple

Changhua Confucian Temple 彰化孔子廟 was founded in 1726, three years after the county itself was established, and it is a designated national historic site. If you have been to the temples in Lukang, come here for the contrast — and the contrast is the point.

彰化孔子廟創建於 1726 年，就在彰化設縣三年之後，是國定古蹟。 如果你去過鹿港的廟，來這裡是為了對比——而對比正是重點。

For a teacher, that last line is worth sitting with. The county's name comes from the phrase 建學立師以彰雅化 — "establish schools and teachers, so that refined civilization may be made visible." The place you work was named after the idea that teaching is what makes a civilization visible. That is not a bad thing to remember on a difficult Wednesday.

對一個老師來說，最後那一行值得停下來想一想。彰化的縣名出自 建學立師以彰雅化——「設立學校與老師，讓文明得以彰顯」。 你工作的這個地方，是以「教學讓文明被看見」這個想法命名的。這件事在難熬的星期三，還蠻值得記得的。

Section 04What to eat

• Changhua meatball 彰化肉圓 — the city's signature dish and genuinely different from the versions elsewhere in Taiwan. A chewy translucent skin around pork, served with a sweet-savory sauce. Try it here before you form an opinion about bawan. 彰化肉圓——本市的招牌，和台灣其他地方的版本確實不同。半透明的Q皮包著豬肉，淋上甜鹹醬汁。在對肉圓下定論之前，先在這裡吃一次。
• Braised pork rice 爌肉飯 — a thick slab of braised pork belly over rice. Changhua's version is a local institution, and it is what people here eat when they are hungry rather than when they are being tourists. 爌肉飯——厚厚一塊滷五花蓋在飯上。彰化的版本是在地的經典，而且是這裡的人「肚子餓」時吃的東西，不是「當觀光客」時吃的東西。
• Cat-mouse noodles 貓鼠麵 — no cats and no mice; the shop's founder had a nickname. Old, famous, and a good story to tell your students. 貓鼠麵——沒有貓也沒有老鼠，是創始人的綽號。老字號、有名，而且是個可以講給學生聽的好故事。

Section 05The Mandarin you will actually use

Tap 🔊 to hear each one.

按 🔊 可以聽發音。

Section 06Taking it back to the classroom

1. The turntable is a physics lesson that turns. Why rotate the engine instead of building a loop? Ask that question before you give the answer; it works at every level. 轉車盤是一堂會轉的物理課。為什麼要轉火車頭，而不是蓋一個環形軌道？先問，再給答案；這題在任何年段都成立。
2. Use the view from Bagua Mountain as a map. Show a photograph from the top and ask students to point out where their own township is. Geography stops being abstract the moment they can see their own house from a picture. 把八卦山的視野當地圖。秀一張山上拍的照片，請學生指出自己的鄉鎮在哪裡。當他們能在照片裡找到自己家，地理就不再抽象了。
3. Tell them what the county's name means. Most students have never been told that 彰化 is a sentence about teachers. Coming from the foreign teacher, it lands differently. 告訴他們縣名的意思。多數學生從沒被告知「彰化」是一句關於老師的話。由外師說出來，感受會不一樣。

That completes this pack. Three trips, all reachable, all within an hour of where you teach. The only remaining step is the one no web page can do for you.

這一包到此結束。三趟行程，都到得了，都在你教書的地方一小時之內。 剩下的那一步，沒有任何網頁能替你做。