|Sea Erosion Platform|
The vast sea erosion platform within Heping Island Park is a production area for winter seaweed. Local village women often come here to collect the natural seaweed, forming a unique cultural landscape on the island.
|Fanzi Cave|
Huang Junping's "The Stone Caves of Jilong Shejiao Island: A Field Survey of Dutch Remains" details the process in which French M.C. Imbault-Huart, Japanese Ito Kei, and himself, successively collected inscriptions inside the cave. The "Fanzi" inside the cave are actually the names of the Dutch people carved into the cave, but what is strange is the years written after the names. It may be inferred that after the Dutch were driven out by Zheng Chenggong in 1662, there were still Dutch soldiers present in Jilong until 1667. Ito even believed that these were the troops dispatched by the Dutch East India Company in Batavia. In the era of maritime exploration, Taiwan was in a "land without a master" state. The name "Fanzi Cave" was given after the Dutch forces entered or withdrew from the San Salvador Castle, which could also be said to reflect the process and outcome of the maritime powers' competition in Shejiao. More than three centuries have passed, and the "Fanzi" in Fanzi Cave have long been eroded by the sea wind and seawater, becoming blurred. Fortunately, the "Digital Archive Joint Catalogue" preserves the "Fanzi Cave Inscriptions of Shejiao Island" collected by Ishizaki, which can be used for research and reference.
. In 1624, the Dutch entered Taiwan and occupied Tainan in southern Taiwan.
. In 1626, the Spaniards invaded Taiwan, occupied Shejiao Island in Jilong in northern Taiwan, and built San Salvador Castle to prevent the Dutch from invading.
. In 1642, the Dutch in southern Taiwan, feeling threatened, used force to move north and drove out the Spaniards, taking over Shejiao Island instead.
. In 1661, the national hero Zheng Chenggong led an army from Xiamen to Taiwan and defeated the Dutch. A small part of the Dutch fled to northern Taiwan, hiding on Shejiao Island (Heping Island) in Jilong.
. In 1668, the Zheng family's army landed at Guoshengpu near Jinshan and Yeliu, launching a campaign against the remaining Dutch in northern Taiwan.
. When the Dutch were leaving their last stronghold, they first destroyed their base, San Salvador Castle, and also carved some Dutch inscriptions on the rock walls inside a sea erosion cave on a small hill facing the northeastern sea wind within the current Heping Island Park. These inscriptions no longer exist today. Later, people called this sea erosion cave "Fanzi Cave."
. Fanzi Cave is not very large, but it is a cave that penetrates the sandstone geology of the small hill, about 20 meters deep. In terms of topography, this kind of cave is called a sea erosion cave.