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■ History of Sioushuei Township
Initially, Sioushuei Township was named Toushuei; however, in Jia Qing reign of Ching Dynasty, people eliminated the left side of character “Tou”, then the name of this township formally became Sioushui since then. Before the year of the Yong Zheng region, the first settler was people from Mazhilinshe. Some people from Fukien stared migrating from Quanzhou, Nanann, Jinjiang, and Zhangzhou after that. It had gradually formed tribes such as Maxing, Maming Mountain, Anndong, Oujianglun, Zengcun, Xialun. In the first year of the Gan Long region, Sioushuei Township was to be given a name as Mazhibao by the predecessors in memory of their native residents from Mazhilin.

Changhua County took rule over Sioushuei Township. It was then under the control of “Taichung County Changhua Hall” in the early Japanese occupation era. Until 10 years before the establishment of the ROC, the district of Sioushuei was exercised jurisdiction over ” Taichung County Lugang Bureau ”. In the year 11 of the ROC, it was then taken over by “Changhua Hall Lugang Secondary Hall”. In the year 3 of the ROC, Changhua Hall was merged to Taichung Hall, and to be under “Taichung Hall Lugang Secondary Hall ”;besides, it had revised “fortress” to “district”. Until the year 9 of the ROC, it had reorganized from “district” to “village”, and combined Sioushuei and Shanxi into one “village”, built up Sioushuei Village, which was under”Taichung Province Changhua Arrondissement”. In the year 34 of the ROC, Taiwan restored, it was renamed as Sioushuei Township under the jurisdiction of Taichung County. In the year 39 of the ROC, it was taken rule over by Changhua County until now

■ Sioushuei Township until now
In the early Japanese occupation era, Mazhibao, Maxing, Maming Mountain, Anndong, Oujianglun, Zengcun, Xialun, Yanwushangbao, Sioushuei and Shanxhad gradually had become self-control areas. Sioushuei Township was named Toushuei at that time; however, in Jia Qing reign of Ching Dynasty, it was renamed as Sioushui. In those self-control areas, there were native residents called Pingpu tribe in Mazhilin; that’s theorigin of the name of Mazhibao.In the year 3 of the Yong Zheng region, people whose surname were Wang and Yu from Quanzhou Nanann County, people whose surname was Chen from JinJiang County, and people whose surname was Ma from Zhangzhou County started migrating and formed tribes gradually during Jia Qing and Gan Long regions. Sioushuei Township was taken rule over by Changhua County in Ching Dynasty. In the year 28 of Mingzhi region, Japan announced Domestic affairs laws in June at same year; in the year 29 of Mingzhi region, Sioushuei was exercised jurisdiction over by Taichung County. In the year 30 of Mingzhi region, Taichung County took control of Yanwushangbao, Yuanlin Bureau, Mazhibao, and also established the head of village. In the year 34 of Mingzhi region, revised”county” to “hall”, and it was under the rule of Changhua Hall. In the year 42 of Mingzhi region, Changhua Hall merged, it had taken over by Taichung County again, and formed People's commune. After that, in the year 9 of Dazheng region, the concept of self control area was developed; it had reorganized from “district” to “Sioushuei Village”.DeZhong Gan was assigned to be the first head of Sioushuei Village. In the year 13 of Dazang region, Xunqian Xu held a post, after the period expired, Aodaoxianqing, a Japanese, took over the job. In the year 18 of Zhaohe region, changed the head to Xingdikangxiang, and in the year 20 of Zhaohe region, assigned Pinmucilang to take over the role of the head. In the year 34 of the ROC, Taiwan restored, assigned Jiachen Chen to be in charge of Sioushuei Township, as the head of Sioushuei Township

Sioushuei Township is a long shaped quiet rural village. Situated on the southwest side of Changhua City, and it reaches stretching from the eastern boundary of Huatan Township, to the western boundary of Lugang Town and FuXing Township, to the southern boundary of Dacun Township and Puyan Township, and to the northern border of Hemei Town and Changhua City.

■ Area： 29.3447 Square kilometers

■ Neighborhood：Currently there are 14 villages, 264 Neighborhoods, and 18communities in Sioushuei Township

■ Household：9031

■ Population： 38569

■ Historic monuments:

■ Second-class of Antiquity ：Ancient house of Yiyuan（No. 4, Yi Yuan Lane, Ma Xing Village, Sioushuei Township, Changhua County）

■ Antiquity：Ancient house of family Su（Sioushuei Township – Pulun Village）

■ The introduction for the head of Sioushuei Township：

Experience：
■The 7th representative of the Agriculture Bureau in Sioushuei Township
■The 10th and 11st representative in Sioushuei Township
■The 12th and 13th assistant chairman in Sioushuei Township
■The 5th water conservancy representative of the farmland irrigation organization in Changhua
■Parent's president of association at MaXing elementary school in Sioushuei Township
■The 12th district assemblyman in Changhua County
■The 13th head of Sioushuei Township