Copyright & Credits

• The articles on this site were written by the site owner in collaboration with AI; the historical facts are drawn from public sources — official press releases, news reports, and documentaries — checked and adapted by hand.
• Traditional Chinese is the original; the English, Japanese, and Korean versions are AI translations (on the “Voices” page, participants' quotations also carry the Traditional Chinese original alongside).
• Only five decorative background images and one social share card across the whole site are AI-generated; they are not documentary photographs, and the decorative backgrounds are purely decorative (see the image credits below).

The nature and basis of the text on each page:

Home

Original writing.

The Story

Original writing (site owner in collaboration with AI), checked and adapted from public sources such as official press releases, news reports, and documentaries.

Voices

Verbatim quotation of participants' public feedback and on-camera remarks (see “Citation Notes” below).

The Pilgrimage (3D)

Original writing (site owner in collaboration with AI), checked and adapted from public sources such as official press releases, news reports, and documentaries.

Forest Railway

Adapted from the official tourist map issued by the Yilan Branch of the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, with reference to public sources such as Wikipedia.

The ten shared reflections on the “Voices” page are quoted from public Facebook posts of “Taipingshan National Forest Recreation Area”, reproduced verbatim, with all names de-identified.

太平山國家森林遊樂區 (Facebook)

The four on-camera quotations on the “Voices” page, and the four interview stills, are quoted from a Yilan News (YouTube @yilan-news) report; a video timecode is given for each item.

太平山熱鬧迎媽祖 神尊山林遶境傳統逾50年 (宜蘭新聞 @yilan-news)Reporter: 劉曜甄

These quotations are used for reference and commentary; copyright remains with the respective rights holders. Original authors or the people concerned (including anyone whose likeness appears) may request removal via the feedback channel on this page.

Photographed by the Site Owner

Some of the on-location photographs on the site were taken by the site owner, Sou-Yi Yang, and released under CC BY-SA 4.0; they appear across “The Story” and “The Pilgrimage” pages. The remaining on-location photographs are drawn from Wikimedia Commons (see the section below). Below is the list of the site owner's photographs; the three social share cards (og:image) are drawn from among them:

Social share cards：og-story.jpg · og-journey.jpg · og-railway.jpg

Wikimedia Commons

The historic photos, stations, neighbouring temples, and wildlife below are from Wikimedia Commons. Each was checked against its Commons licence and is credited to its author under its Public Domain (PD) or CC licence; this site only scales and crops them. The wildlife images were all photographed elsewhere in Taiwan, not on Taipingshan itself, as noted on the page.

Issued by Official Agencies

The following is an official tourist map issued by a government agency; copyright belongs to the issuing agency, and this site adapts its publicly issued map data.

AI-Generated Images

The six images below were produced by this site using generative AI (five decorative backgrounds and one social share card); they are not documentary material.

News Video Stills (Reference & Commentary)

The interview stills below are taken from a Yilan News (YouTube @yilan-news) report, as supporting evidence for participants' testimony; they are used for reference and commentary and are not CC-licensed. A video timecode is given for each.

Sound (Freesound · CC0)

The ambient sounds and effects below — those actually in use on the site — are from Freesound, all CC0 (public-domain dedication). CC0 requires no attribution; we still list the original titles and authors in good faith.

Music (Original · CC BY-SA 4.0)

The per-act music below was composed by the site owner, Sou-Yi Yang, and released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This site cites or references the YouTube videos below; copyright remains with their respective channels. We do not reproduce or alter the video content; those embedded for playback use only the official YouTube embed player (on the youtube-nocookie domain, loaded only after a click), and every entry links to the original.

太平山迎媽祖，與眾神的蹦蹦車小旅行?! ↗

高點電視《台灣百廟》

Documentary coverage of the 2024 event. Embedded with click-to-load across the acts of “The Pilgrimage” and on the “Story” page; some testimony was adapted from its narration and interviews.

太平山熱鬧迎媽祖 神尊山林遶境傳統逾50年 ↗

宜蘭新聞（@yilan-news）

News report. Embedded with click-to-load on the “Voices” page; the interview stills are used for reference and commentary — see “News Video Stills” above.

【MIT台灣誌 #466】媽祖帶你去旅行(太平山) ↗

MIT台灣誌（中視・@ctvmit）

Documentary footage from the 2011 television programme 《MIT台灣誌》(MIT Taiwan), originally broadcast in five parts. Cited here as background reference for this site's historical context — the origins of the pilgrimage, the relationship between the forestry industry and Mazu worship, and more — and not embedded for playback on this site.

• Part 1 ↗
• Part 2 ↗
• Part 3 ↗
• Part 4 ↗
• Part 5 ↗

The 3D map on “The Pilgrimage” uses the data sources below; the map view shows each attribution under its respective terms:

Esri World Imagery

Satellite/aerial basemap for the 3D map, used under the Esri terms of service; the map view already shows its attribution.

Mapzen / AWS Terrarium

Terrain elevation data (open data) driving the 3D relief; the map view shows its attribution.

OpenStreetMap

Vector data for the pilgrimage and forest-railway routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, under ODbL; the map view already shows “Route © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)”.

The code of the three interactive 3D model pages on this site (Zhenan Temple, the Bongbong train, and the Luodong light railway) is the proprietary work of the site owner, Sou-Yi Yang — All Rights Reserved: it may not be reproduced, distributed, modified, or used in other projects without written permission. The on-location photographs used within them remain under CC BY-SA 4.0.

The models are rendered with the open-source three.js graphics library (MIT license, loaded from the Cloudflare cdnjs and jsDelivr CDNs) and can be previewed directly on the home page, the Mountain Story page, and the light-railway page; the preview-card covers are renders of the models themselves (made by the site).

Each model page can also be opened and explored on its own:

• Zhenan Temple ↗
• Bongbong Train ↗
• Luodong Light Railway ↗

The site uses the following typefaces, all under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL 1.1):

Noto Serif TC · Noto Serif JP · Noto Serif KR · Noto Sans TC · Noto Sans JP · Noto Sans KR · Cormorant Garamond · 源雲明體 GenWanMin TW

GenWanMin TW (源雲明體, by ButTaiwan, derived from Source Han Serif) is used only for the homepage main title; the site self-hosts a four-character subset of 雲端遶境.

Official full texts of the licences mentioned on this page:

• CC BY 2.0 ↗
• CC BY 3.0 ↗
• CC BY 3.0 TW ↗
• CC BY 4.0 ↗
• CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
• CC0 1.0 ↗
• ODbL 1.0 ↗
• SIL OFL 1.1 ↗

If you find any error in the site's historical or cultural content, please let us know via the “Feedback & Notices” button at the bottom-right of the page. With thanks to those who have provided corrections and additions to our historical content (more will be added as further input arrives):

• Chen Yu-Chen, Yilan Branch, Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency

Following the input above, the site has made the following corrections:

1. Kilometre 7 of Yizhuan Route 1 suffered a roadbed collapse in late April 2025; after emergency reinforcement of the slope and roadbed, the recreation area stayed open under single-lane two-way traffic control. In the spring of 2026 the decision was made to close for about two months to fill the sinkhole, and — asking Koxinga with the divination blocks — the Welcoming of Mazu was postponed to a May opening.
2. The Taipingshan tradition of welcoming Mazu began around the 1970s (the exact year cannot be confirmed); this has been added to the “Masters of the Mountain” passage in Mountain Story, placed before the 2021 listing as a historic building.
3. “Gathering the Gods on Three Routes” now lists every temple whose deities are welcomed — eight temples, eleven deities.
4. In the finale “The Direction of Guarding Is Reversed,” the forest-keeping description has been changed from patrolling the red and false cypress alone to guarding the whole forest — every single tree is worth cherishing.
5. The Bongbong train (Maoxing Line) was suspended because of Typhoon Gaemi in July 2024, now stated directly in the chronicle.