Long before the retreat of Kuomintang forces to the island of Taiwan, there had been waves of migration of the people of mainland China. They were looking for a new environment to start a new life and some of them found their new home in Taiwan bringing with them their culture and traditions. Hundreds of years had passed and the province of Yunlin became a center of puppetry in the entire island of Taiwan.
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| At the 2nd floor, the audience wait for the start of a puppet show |
The Yunlin Glove Puppetry Museum is a testament of this passion and the Taiwan Tour Bus brought us to the town of Huwei to see its beautiful puppets. Its building was built during the 1930s at a time when Japan still ruled Taiwan and was the home of the Huwei District Office. Today, it is the home of Yunlin's amazing puppets. The building is two and a half stories high and and Puli dolls were the main attraction.
These dolls look like mini-mannequins with beautiful gowns and costumes. I explored the museum and I got intrigued with the Puli dolls clad in heavy armor. They look majestic as if they have their own life. If you are living in Taiwan for years you had probably seen a puppet TV show of these Puli dolls. They fought like characters in an anime with a interesting storyline that the Taiwanese audience follows.
I still remember my visit to the Lin Liu-Hsin Puppet Theatre Museum in Taiwan Day 302 (Asian Puppets). One of the staff gave me an introduction of what the museum was all about and I even had a chance to try their hand puppet and a string puppet. For this “Yunlin Special”, I was given a chance to have a photo with a Puli doll. I just inserted my hand with my index finger pointing up inside the head of the doll and I hold the stick attached to the doll's hand. I gave my camera to the original puppet master and with a count of three I had a memorable photo with a doll in Yunlin.
Surrounding the Yunlin Glove Puppetry Museum are old buildings built also during Taiwan's Japanese colonial period. The Yunlin Story House was the former residence of a public official in the olden times of Yunlin and it has the typical Japanese architecture. Visitors have to wait to enter the Japanese house but I don't have much time so I just content myself with photos outside the old house. I don't want the Taiwan Tour Bus to leave me in Huwei. It would be a disaster for my travel adventure.
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| view of the Yunlin Glove Puppetry Museum from the Huwei Police & Fire Station |
A building with a four-story high tower is what the Huwei Police & Fire Station is best described for. It was the former Tainan Province Huwei District Office and is now a modern Eslite Bookstore. The grandeur of its design can still be seen on the building by looking at it outside the street and inside the building. It's circular window on its stairs reminds me of the 1930s Hayashi Department Store which I visited in Tainan in Taiwan Day 436 (Ancient City Part 2). It also had the same circular window along the stairs.
Eating delicious cakes was my idea of my visit to the iicake Yunlin Cake Towel Café but I was wrong. They were not real cakes but rather 'cake towels'. They are colorful towels folded and shaped into cakes. It's a factory museum where visitors also have a chance to watch workers decorating a cake towel and I saw women behind a glass wall decorating a green 'cupcake towel' and a circular 'mini cake towel'. Yummy! It's (not) a piece of cake!
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| the DIY classroom |
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| inside the Taiwan Tour Bus |
For those who want to try making their own cake towels, one can register for the DIY activity at the second floor of the museum However, only 30 minutes were given to riders of the Taiwan Tour Bus to see the factory museum. Too bad! But I promised to myself that I will return to this place with friends to try making our own cake towels and bring it home as a souvenir. The iicake Yunlin Cake Towel Café was the last attraction of the Beigang Huwei Route and the Taiwan Tour Bus arrived at Douliu Station to complete its circular route. I really enjoyed this day tour but there was one problem. There were no hostels for me to sleep in Yunlin. (To be continued...)
THE COMPLETE YUNLIN SPECIAL
Taiwan Day 833: "Yunlin, I Choose You!" Part 1 “Catching Yunlin”
Taiwan Day 833: "Yunlin, I Choose You!" Part 2 “Yunlin's Best”
Taiwan Day 834: "Yunlin, I Choose You! Part 3" “The Gang of Beigang”
Taiwan Day 834: "Yunlin, I Choose You!" Finale "The Feast That Never Ends"
THE COMPLETE YUNLIN SPECIAL
Taiwan Day 833: "Yunlin, I Choose You!" Part 1 “Catching Yunlin”
Taiwan Day 833: "Yunlin, I Choose You!" Part 2 “Yunlin's Best”
Taiwan Day 834: "Yunlin, I Choose You! Part 3" “The Gang of Beigang”
Taiwan Day 834: "Yunlin, I Choose You!" Finale "The Feast That Never Ends"
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Sakura Series - Taiwan
2025 Forecast
Taipei 101 first flowers
Tianyuan Palace backyard
Taipei Flower Test Center
Pingjing St. Lane 42
Broadwood Park
Sunshine Sports Park kawazu sakura
Wuling Farm (武陵農場)
SYS kawazu sakura
Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village
CKS Memorial Hall
Shibafen Yoshino Sakura
Hope River
Dongfang Temple
Tianyuan Palace
Neicou Stream Trail
Orange Garden Cafe
Yangming Park Visitor Information Center
Yangming Park Service Center Bus Stop
Huashan Road
Qianshan Park
Zhongshan Hall Entrance
Tenglong Sakura Farm
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Neihu Creek Trail
Shulin Land Office
Xióng Kōng Cherry Blossom Forest
Lung Yen Sakura Forest
Yangming Park cherry stream
Yangming Park fountain
CKS Memorial Hall Tairyō sakura
Wugu District Tianyi Road
CKS Memorial Hall yaesakura
Loving Farm
Yong Long Farm
Zhongbaling Sakura Road
Sun Link Sea
Tai'an Police Station
Cherry Hill Slope
Hsinchu Park
Taipei 101
Kāng Gào Kēng Creek
New Garden City
Broadwood Park
Tianyuan Palace backyard
Pingjing St. Lane 42
Alishan Ranger Station
Alishan House
Alishan Police Station
Alishan Forest Railway
Alishan Station
Alishan Entrance
Alishan Gou Hotel
Alishan Magnolia Garden
Wulai tour
Wun Chang Elementary School
Bishanyan
Sanzhi Sansei Trail
Sakura Series - Taiwan
Nei Cuo Stream
Orange Garden Cafe
Sansei Trail
Tenglong Sakura Farm
Yangming Park Cherry Stream
Yangming Park Fountain
Flower Test Center
Broadwood Park
New Garden City
Yinghua Park
Pingjing St. Lane 42
Yangmingshan Visitor Center
Taipei 101
Tianyuan Palace backyard
Sakura Series - Japan
Kamonyama Park
Near the Nippon Maru Memorial Park
Shinko Park
Minato-mirai 21 area
Tokyo Tech Suzukakedai Campus
Onda River
Tenryuji
Byodoin
Kiyomizudera
Himuro shrine and Yakushi-ji Temple
Hōryū-ji Temple
Nara Park attractions
Tokyo Tech Ookayama Campus
Sumida River
Tsuruma Park
Gion
Maple Series
Taipei Aowanda
Shimen Dam
Alishan
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Shanlinxi
Taoyuan Valley Garden
Fushoushan Farm
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The "Taipei kong mahal" (My beloved Taipei)
Always in my heart
MRT birdman
Valentine's Day
Tulips Festival
2018 Taipei Lantern Festival
City of Azaleas
Linji Huguo Temple
Nanjichang Night Market
Gudetama Chef restaurant
Dalongdong Bao'an Temple
Shilin hollyhocks
Ningxia Night Market
Ximending graffiti
Discovery Center of Taipei
Chunghwa Postal Museum
Double-Decker Bus
Shilin Cold Balls
Jingimoo
GomanMango
mud volcanic ice
Fire and Ice Dumpling
Opium Fen-Yuan
Ichiran Ramen
Liu Shandong Beef Noodles
hydrangea flowers
National Palace Museum
Other attractions in Taipei
Taipei on a budget
Japanese buildings
Dāoxiāomiàn beef noodles
Presidential Office Building
Yongkang St. and Elephant Mountain
CKS and SYS Hall
City tour
Beitou ramen
MRT Monopoly Game
Winter city tour
Zhicheng Park
Shilin Plum Blossom
Art museums
Shopping in Taipei
Summer desserts
Qingtiangang
Qixingshan hiking
2015 Calla lily
2016 Calla lily
Beitou tour
Beitou-Zhuzihu tour
NTU
Confucius Temple
2015 Dadaocheng Festival
Puppet Museum
Fantasy Ice World
2016 Bread Show
Strawberry picking
2015 Rose Garden
Modern Toilet
Shilin Night Market
NASA Exhibit
Raohe Night Market
Longshan Temple
2013 Taipei Zoo
Maokong Gondola
Lupin flowers
Taipei 101 day visit
Taipei 101 night visit
Tiger Mountain
Din Tai Fung
Taipei Story House
2014 Flower Show
Chrysanthemum Show
Miramar Ferris wheel
Miniatures Museum
Archery
1600 Pandas
Wulaoguo hot pot
Upside Down House
2016 101 Fireworks
New Taipei
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Shifen Waterfall
2017 Sand Sculpture
Dragon Caves
New Taipei tour
2016 Kite Festival
Pingxi Crags
Bitou Cape
2016 Sand Sculpture
2015 Christmasland
Juming - Jinshan
Houtong - Pingxi
Sandiaoling Waterfall
Jiufen foodtrip
Guanyinshan hike
Yehliu Ocean World
2014 Kite Festival
Pingxi Rail tour
Jinguashi tour
Vigor Kobo Pineapple
British Consulate
Yehliu Geopark
2014 Sand Sculpture
Paragliding
2014 Christmasland
2014 Pingxi Lantern
firefly watching
Yingge Ceramics Street
Jiufen tour
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