Origin of the Shihsanhang Name

    There are three stories revolving the origin of the name, Shihsanhang (the 13th site). The first one has it that there were 13 stores in the area at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. The second story has it that most Han people who came to Taiwan at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty were single males, also labeled “vagabonds” by the locals (Lô-hàn-kha-á.) There were 13 of them at the time, and the pronunciation for “13 people” in the Taiwanese dialect resembles that of “Shihsanhang.” The third story has it that the aboriginals called this place “Shihsanhang,” and the Han people retrained the pronunciation of the name. Following archeological practice, the site is named with the shortest name of the area, thus the name Shihsanhang.





十三行名稱的由來



十三行名稱的由來有三種說法，第一種說法：清初這裡曾有十三家店，當地居民稱為十三行庄；第二種說法，清初漢人來臺多為單身男子，當地人稱之為羅漢腳，當時有13人，13人的台語發音和十三行雷同；第三種說法：是原住民稱此地為十三行，漢人依據其發音為十三行。依據考古學慣例，以當地最小地名為遺址命名，因此稱為十三行。