Scenic spots full of historical memories

Bringing older parents here would be a meaningful experience.

This is the National Human Rights Museum,

Asia's first museum combining historical sites with an exhibition illustrating the human rights abuses caused by authoritarian rule.

The Formosa Incident was tried in the Grand Court here, and the former intelligence chief Wang Hsi-ling, imprisoned for the "Jiangnan Case," was also placed in this building.

While this history is somewhat hazy to me,

walking through it, I can still feel the turmoil of that time.

Of the current exhibitions, I resonate most with the special exhibition, "Speak Mandarin?! Post-War Language Policies and Human Rights Issues," because when I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to speak Taiwanese. Students who spoke Taiwanese would have a sign hanging around their necks saying "I don't speak Taiwanese."

We used to watch puppet shows during lunch breaks.

Originally, they were in Taiwanese, but for a while, they were dubbed in Mandarin, which was very strange. I didn't understand then, but now I know it was for political reasons.

History will pass,

but the scars will remain. Besides reflecting on the past,

we must also cherish the freedom we have now.