Qualla: Cherry Orchard Cemetery https://qualla.com/cherry-orchard-cemetery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:19 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Cherry Orchard Cemetery https://qualla.com/cherry-orchard-cemetery Cherry Orchard Cemetery: Introduction https://qualla.com/cherry-orchard-cemetery/ Every February and March, the hillsides above Pao-Lun Village fill with cherry blossoms, and the cemetery they surround becomes something most cemeteries are not: crowded with the living. Families come to visit their dead and stay to photograph the flowers. Weekend visitor counts reach a thousand or more. The spectacle might seem incongruous — but Cherry Orchard Cemetery was designed precisely with this in mind, as a place of remembrance that the bereaved would want to return to, and that others might simply want to inhabit.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/t/cherry-orchard-cemetery-wp/wsqt-cherry-orchard-cemetery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cherry Orchard Cemetery: A Cemetery Designed Against Intimidation https://qualla.com/cherry-orchard-cemetery/ Architect Huang Sheng-yuan and his firm, Tian Zhongyang Architectural Firm, approached the commission with a clear intention: to refuse the conventions of monumental grief. Cherry Orchard Cemetery uses cast-in-place concrete as its primary building material — a choice that preser...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/t/cherry-orchard-cemetery-wp/wsqt-cherry-orchard-cemetery-a-cemetery-designed-against-intimidation.mp3 0:06 2 full Cherry Orchard Cemetery: The View From 750 Meters https://qualla.com/cherry-orchard-cemetery/ Cherry Orchard Cemetery spans 45.6 hectares across the mountainous terrain of Jiaoxi Township, at elevations between 750 and 800 meters. Planning began in 1999 under Yilan County Magistrate Liu Shou-cheng, with an investment of NT$846 million; the cemetery opened in 2009. The set...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/s/q/t/cherry-orchard-cemetery-wp/wsqt-cherry-orchard-cemetery-chiang-wei-shui-comes-home.mp3 0:06 4 full Cherry Orchard Cemetery: How the Dead Rest Here https://qualla.com/cherry-orchard-cemetery/ Cherry Orchard Cemetery is a public facility managed by the Yilan County Government's Funeral Management Department, open to Yilan residents. The facility offers three forms of interment: family columbarium niches holding between four and eighteen urns, individual columbarium sec...

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