Qualla: Hengchun https://qualla.com/hengchun en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/v/v/hengchun-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hengchun https://qualla.com/hengchun Hengchun: Introduction https://qualla.com/hengchun/ Photo credit sonny from Taiwan, CC BY 2.0. A Qing dynasty viceroy rode through the southernmost corner of Taiwan in 1875 and noticed something the locals already knew: the crops never browned, the air never turned cold, the seasons barely seemed to change. He called the place Hengchun — Always Spring — before he left, and the name has stuck ever since. That quiet observation turned into a proper noun that now greets visitors to Taiwan's most tropical township, a place where the thermometer rarely dips below 18 degrees Celsius even in January and where the ocean surrounds you on three sides before you've even unpacked.

Read more: Hengchun on Qualla

Image: sonny from Taiwan | CC BY 2.0

]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/v/v/hengchun-wp/wevv-hengchun-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hengchun: A Name Older Than the Walls https://qualla.com/hengchun/ Photo credit Dquai, CC BY-SA 4.0. Before viceroy Shen Baozhen renamed it, the settlement was called Longkiau — a word borrowed from the Paiwan people who had lived on this peninsula long before any colonial power arrived. The Dutch knew it as Lonkjouw; American sailors knew it as a place of danger after the Rover...

Read more: Hengchun on Qualla

Image: Dquai | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/v/v/hengchun-wp/wevv-hengchun-a-name-older-than-the-walls.mp3 0:06 2 full Hengchun: The Walls That Refused to Fall https://qualla.com/hengchun/ Photo credit Caitriana Nicholson from 北京 ~ Beijing, 中国 ~ China, CC BY-SA 2.0. Construction of the walled town began in 1875, the first year of the Guangxu Era, and was completed in 1879. Four gates faced the cardinal directions — north, east, south, and west — and a moat ringed the outer walls for a total circumference of about 2,550 meters, confirmed by a...

Read more: Hengchun on Qualla

Image: Caitriana Nicholson from 北京 ~ Beijing, 中国 ~ China | CC BY-SA 2.0

]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/v/v/hengchun-wp/wevv-hengchun-the-walls-that-refused-to-fall.mp3 0:06 3 full Hengchun: Gateway to the South https://qualla.com/hengchun/ Photo credit I Chung Hu, CC BY-SA 4.0. Hengchun is the entry point to Kenting National Park, the southernmost national park in Taiwan, and the commercial pulse of the Hengchun Peninsula. On weekday mornings the old town has a quiet, lived-in quality: vegetable stalls near the gates, schoolchildren on bicycles, elderly...

Read more: Hengchun on Qualla

Image: I Chung Hu | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/v/v/hengchun-wp/wevv-hengchun-gateway-to-the-south.mp3 0:06 4 full Hengchun: Cinema and the Southern Tip https://qualla.com/hengchun/ Photo credit Dquai, CC BY-SA 4.0. Hengchun gained an unexpected kind of fame in 2008 when the film Cape No. 7 opened across Taiwan. The movie, set largely in and around the town, became the highest-grossing Taiwanese film in the country's cinema history at the time of its release. The story — a young musician, ol...

Read more: Hengchun on Qualla

Image: Dquai | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/v/v/hengchun-wp/wevv-hengchun-cinema-and-the-southern-tip.mp3 0:06 5 full Hengchun: Always Spring https://qualla.com/hengchun/ Photo credit CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0. The climate that gave Hengchun its name is real. Average monthly temperatures range from 21 to 28 degrees Celsius, with ocean breezes that keep the daytime highs from getting as brutal as they would inland. The peninsula sits at the convergence of the Taiwan Strait and the Philip...

Read more: Hengchun on Qualla

Image: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas | CC BY-SA 3.0

]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/v/v/hengchun-wp/wevv-hengchun-always-spring.mp3 0:06 6 full