On an autumn day, Zhou the Millionaire made a round of visits to his tenant farmers along the Xintian Stream, which is a tributary of the Tamsui River flowing past Taipei.

Zhou Tingbu (周廷部) made a full inventory of the victuals as he was told. Hasting to finish his late supper, the henpecked husband had to obey his clever wife's order to keep count of and shelve the grocery he had brought back to his store at Guting from Banka.

Taipei Metro has a station called Guting (古亭), where passengers can change subway trains to go to Nanshijiao (南勢角). It means Old Pavilion, but the place used to be called Koting in Hoklo and Guting in Mandarin (鼓亭).

The King of Ducks went to the party at Kouweizhuang near Chiayi with a large bodyguard escort on July 17. He and his bodyguards, however, relaxed after they saw a feast befitting the emperor under preparation.

When the Grand Marshal's army reached Tainan, all prefectural government officials had fled. It was an open city, where people welcomed the ragtag army, which, however, was well disciplined.

The Kangxi emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was one of the best rulers of China. He annexed Taiwan as a prefecture of Fujian in 1683 after Koxinga's grandson surrendered the island in 1682.

Zhu Yigui woke up from a siesta under the cool shade of the riverside banyan tree. It was still very hot in southern Taiwan, which in fact is in the tropical zone.

There is a type of domesticated common water bird known as cai-ya or tsai-ya (菜鴨) in Taiwan, which never sits on eggs.

Abbot Miaosong complied with Mad Monk's demand. Wine was bought and Mad Monk drank to his heart's content.

Both parents of Li Daoji (李道濟), who was the Dragon-subjugating Arhat reborn, died when he was 18.