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Cyonglin or Qionglin "Combat Village" (Kinmen, Taiwan)

Cyonglin or Qionglin stands out from other Kinmen villages with its myriads of historic houses, temples and wind lion god statues plus a military tunnel complex runs underneath the village. The tunnel's total length is 1,355 meters and most of the network is 6 meters underground. Due to the village's key strategic location on Kinmen, all the homes in the villages are connected by a network of tunnels, leading to the nickname "Combat Village." To improve the civil defense fortifications, work was begun on extending and upgrading the tunnels in 1976. With the village office as the center of defenses, the tunnels were extended towards the north and south. A command post was also built under the village office with connecting tunnels to air-raid shelters, bunkers, pillboxes and private homes. The village was also home to a wealth of scholars passing the highest imperial civil service examination, who therefore became “Jinshi” (official). The village of Qionglin is beautifully constructed of red bricks, and the quaint houses are topped with swallowtail roofs that consist of ornate sickles curling up into the air at the ends of a roof’s ridge which resembles the tail of a swallow. These are very prominent parts of the traditional Minnan architecture. In 1949, Chinese communist forces launched a night attack on Kinmen and fought a pitched battle with R.O.C. troops for 56 hours before finally being repulsed. The area where the battle was fought is now known as "Guningtou Battlefield.” However, the Chinese communist forces were supposed to land on Qionglin, but a whiff of north wind changed their route. The lucky village therefore got to stay intact after the war. Every single village on the island of Kinmen has at least one guardian lion that wards off evil spirits, and the ones in Qionglin are said to be the grandest and largest.