History
The original name of Changhua was "half line", colloquially called by the Taiwanese aboriginal. The current name Changhua is the phonetic translation written in Mandarin. Changhua was previously inhabited by Babuza people (mostly assimilated by the Chinese today). When the Qing soldiers invaded Chunghua in 1644, Chunghua was one of the bases that the Qing soldiers defended for. At the time, Chunghua was controlled by the "Tian-Hsin County" of the Qing Dynasty.
During the Japanese Conquer of the WWII, Taiwan was subdivided into Taipei, Taiwan and Tainan. Changhua was ruled under Taiwan subdivision. After a administrative division replanning, Changhua and Taichung City together were combined and became Taichū Prefecture. During 1930, the population in Changhua had already exceeded a million.
There were also prehistorical burials in Chunghua that dates back to 5000 thousand years. The number of burials tally up to 32.
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