Originally named Sikou (錫口), which is the Taiwanese language pronunciation of what a lowland Ketagalan word meaning "Where the river twists". In 1920, the place became Songshan Village (松山庄), named after Matsuyama City (松山市) in Japan. It was a part of Qixing (Cising) District, Taipei Prefecture (台北州七星郡). Songshan was merged into Taipei City in 1938. In 1946, it became a district with 26 municipal villages (里). In 1990, the southern half of Songshan District became Xinyi (Sinyi) District. Its boundary was altered in May 1994, when Keelung River was artificially moved south slightly.
Administration
Songshan is divided into 4 regions (地區), or secondary district (次分區), which in turn are divided into 34 municipal villages. They following placenames are romanized in Tongyong Pinyin, with Hanyu Pinyin in parentheses where they differ:
Mount Songshan is famous as the king of the five sacred mountains in China, taxi driver Zhang Wuxu says, describing to his passengers the Songshan mountains, the central one of the five sacred mountains.
Songshan Shaolin wushu centre trainees at the pagoda forest of the Shaolin temple in Henan province.
Mt Songshan?s two high mountain ranges, Taishi and Shaoshi; and its many secluded shady valleys and marvellous steep peaks with distinctive deep lines on its rough rocks are simply breathtaking.
Songshan that is composed of Taishi Mountain and Shaoshi Mountain is a part of the Funiu Mountains with its main body lying in the northwest of Dengfeng County, Henan Province.
In history the 72 peaks of the mountain were named according to their locations and shapes and the ruins of celebrities, such as the sun, the moon, jade pillar, phoenix, lion and white deer.
Songding, also called Junjifeng, is the highest peak of Mt. Songshan, on which the Yellow River is in sight as a flickering ray to the north and scenic spots and historical sites can be seen scattered in hills around.
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