Senrong Church's Bottle Christmas Tree Lights Up, Illuminating the Night Scenery of Lintianshan

According to the Hualien Forest Management Office’s website, “Lintianshan Forest” is a small, isolated mountain town administratively under Fenglin Township, Hualien County. During the Japanese colonial period, due to the impact of World War II, the Taiwan Shinsei Corporation faced a shortage of papermaking raw materials, so it chose the hemlock and spruce in the Lintianshan area of eastern Taiwan as papermaking material and began logging operations from there.

Lintianshan is also known as “Morisaka,” pronounced in Japanese as “Morisaka,” meaning a forest-covered slope. Lintianshan forestry workers commonly referred to the logging base by the Wanli River as the “forest site” or “Morisaka.” After the recovery of Taiwan, “Morisaka” was renamed “Senrong.” Therefore, terms such as “Lintianshan,” “forest site,” “Morisaka,” “Lintianshan Forest,” and “Senrong” all refer to the same place.

The timber transport railway in Lintianshan totaled nearly 60 kilometers. In 1983, the approximately 47-kilometer Lintianshan Timber Transport Road was completed and opened to traffic, and timber transport was entirely switched to large trucks, marking the end of the forest railway and cableway era. Starting in 2001, the Hualien Forest District Office planned the forest site as the “Lintianshan Forestry Cultural Park,” systematically preserving the history of the forest site. After years of effort, it has become a veritable museum of Taiwan’s forestry industry.

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