The famous eggplant in the home town, " the word, in order to have in Kang Xi's dictionary ", the ones that agree on and become make words newly.
About the genesising of home town name, three kinds say at least:

First, come from the name of the plant
Comprehensive history supposition weighing apparatus will of Taiwan: ' eggplant: Grow the seashore, it actually could be the firewood.
The color of the leather is reddish brown, in order to dye the network.
There are eggplant villages to fit the city.
The mangrove is a kind of angiosperm, distribute on tropical or subtropical area stormy waves calm coast often, and salt water, fresh water intersection and office that silt particle deposit particularly meet more. And the lagoon coast grow more near the north bank of Taiwan, river mouth of the west bank.
Mangrove plant of Taiwan have water-color paintbrush son, sea eggplant, red eggplant, five fall pear, detailed six kinds, mangrove of stamen and Li,etc. of olive, the coastal mangrove of home town is mostly sea eggplants.
Eggplant rattan son's namely sea eggplant, the scientific name is Avicennia marina (Forsk)? Vierh, belongs to the angiosperm horsewhip grass department (Verbenaceae)? .
It is the evergreen arbor, the leaf is right to grow, leather quality, ellipse, long four to six centimeters.
The capsule takes the form of flat ball, after breaking away from the maternal plant, one side drifts about with the wave, one side sprouts and grows up by oneself, wait to float to the waterside with earth, take root quickly, long Cheng XinZhu.

Second, come from transplantation, mainland of name record according to ' Xue clan table ' Xue begin a theatrical performance first ancestor enter Fujian long Tai County mountain serious village name jade Xue (the Jin Dynasty such as jade)? .
Xue migrated to Anping of Taiwan in the first year of Kang Xi, died of illness in this place in the fourth year of Kangxi.
Next year,Xue widow forest last place of eggplant of today with two son,plough not making a living fishing and by Xue at Mount Tai serious ancestral property field ' eggplant Cheng ' place occupied to name not long, in order to show forgetting the ancestral property.
So far it is long for Tai County the ' eggplant Cheng field ' of village not serious is here still of mountain,and have ' carry by eggplant Cheng ' with ' lay eggplant Cheng ' difference.

Third, coming from flat Pu clan name