The main character – Lin, Huo-Lan, in this paper was the immigration of the fifth generation of Wurith Shihluotan, Taichung Lin’s family.
According to the pedigree of Lin family, the first immigrant to Taiwan was Lin, Pu-Hui, born in1758, his ancestor was from Fujian Province, China. Lin, Pu-Hui , under the policy of Ching dynasty, got a loan and sailed to Taiwan alone. After his arrival, he stayed in Ba-Gua mountain, Changhua and started to open up wasteland for farming. For the following generations, the Lins agricultural development had crossed the Wu River , from Chunghua and transfer to Wurith Shihluotan, Taichung. Because of the industrious and thrifty ancestors, they had got some profit. The Lins bought some lands and cultivate them so they rapidly accumulated some wealth and lands. To the fifth generation, Lin, Huo-Lan, they had become the influential family for developing that area.
Lin, Huo-Lan had not only dedicated in agricultural development but also involved in building the water conservancy facilities. As to the education, he donated money for schools and followed Confucian thoughts like thoroughgoing about the funeral rites for parents and the worship of ancestors. The good deeds could be the honor of their offspring. He worked with the leaders of that time like Lin, Xian-Tang to build the Lins ancestors temples. As to the social service affairs, Lin was very enthusiastic about helping others and kind to the others. Lin worked as the Pao-Cheng for several decades during the Japanese period in Taiwan. He solved the problems for local business and became a respectable gentleman.
The research method of this paper adopted mainly from historical method and used the theories and technologies of In-depth interviewing .
The Lin, Hao-Lan family, is not like other prominent big families in Taiwan’s developing history, but he plays the important role in the area developing history. As to the decaying of the ideas of the families, it is very worthy to do some deep research.
