Opened in April 2019, the Chung Chao-Cheng Literary Park is a knowledge complex that encompasses the Da-he Academy, lectures, Chung's residential building, learning workshops for pupils, and the Wu-de Temple. There are spaces dedicated to the literary works and art of Chung, as well as courses on the introduction to literature and human resources training. Visitors may delight in the cradle.. Chung Chao-cheng (1925-2020) A native of Taoyuan, graduate of Changhua Normal School of Education, student of the Chinese Department in National Taiwan University. Chung had been an elementary school teacher for 30 years. Since 1964, Chung assisted Wu Cho-liu in editing TAIWAN LITERATURE AND ART, and gradually took up more literary positions.
Chung Chao-cheng is one of the writers who represent "the cross-language generation" in Taiwan. After the nationalist government banned using Japanese, he devoted to learning to write in Chinese, and received wide recognition in the literary circle for "Dull-ice Flower" in 1960.. A portrait of Chung Chao-cheng. Photo: Hsieh Wen-hua, Taipei Times Although Chung would become a tireless champion of Hakka culture starting in the 1980s, his beloved "mother tongue" was actually his third language, having grown up in a Hoklo- (also known as Taiwanese) speaking village and learning Japanese at school.