Painted in big black characters on the banner was the phrase “Chen Yi (陳儀) is a dog of a bureaucrat.”Įveryone knows what happened after the protest. They pushed the massive troupe drum on a three-wheeled cart, with two to three white protest banners attached to the cart. The protesters were led by the sounds of the drum, with Chuang on the drums and Chen Wu-ji on the cymbals. They led a large group, protesting Chen Wen-hsi’s death at the hands of the police. At around eight or nine in the morning, Lin and two friends, Chen Wu-chi and Chuang Chuan-sheng (莊傳生), nicknamed "Thê-tshîng-tiau-á” (提松朝仔), set off from the old market Kang San Lau building and brothel. Lin covered the cost of finding and sending out the troupe.
…He first went to Zhangcuo street to find Chen Tsai (陳財), the person in charge of the Datou drum troupe he sent out people to beat drums, play the suona horn and protest loudly in the streets. This is how Wang Yun-ching remembers the event: On February 28, 1947, when Lin heard that his friend's brother was killed, he immediately jumped up to seek justice. Wen-hsi’s second oldest brother, Chen Mu-jung, was a street boss in Bangka’s Guisui Market area, and frequently interacted with “local characters” (江湖人士) in the neighbourhood one of those characters was Lin Ping-tzu (林秉足), nicknamed “Mipoji” (密婆吉). Wen-hsi, 27, was nicknamed “stinky ear” (臭耳) because he was hard of hearing and lacked marketable skills. According to Wang Yun-ching (王雲青) - who was friends with Chen Wen-hsi’s nephew Chen Wu-chi (陳戊己) - Chen Wen-hsi loafed about at home, while his oldest brother earned a living working at a market stall. With this question in mind, I searched through numerous 228 testimonies, memoirs and archives, and finally found a fragment in the fourth digest of the 228 oral histories from 1993. Chang Chi-lang (張七郎) and painter Tan Ting-pho (陳澄波). I also didn’t pay attention to Chen Wen-hsi, “the first victim of the 228 Massacre.” But who was this person that “died in the fracas?” It seems we are only familiar with the well-known victims, like the American-trained doctor Lin Mosei (林茂生), local politician Ong Thiam-teng (王添灯), Dr. Instead, it is the sacrifice of Taiwan's intellectuals that is highlighted.īut since the earliest event of 228 was the death of a man related to a Bangka street boss, perhaps it is not suitable for this solemn national event? This might be the result of a systematic erasing of the information.Īnother reason may be that the massacre, which has become a point of divergence in Taiwan’s history, was the result of a demonstration launched by a member of the Taiwan underworld. There are mountains of portraits and letters of murdered intellectuals, but there is not even a hint about the first civilian victim of the massacre. The press room of the Taiwan provincial chief executive published a book called “the factual report on the Taiwan riot,” where it’s clearly recorded that Chen Wen-hsi - the younger brother of a local gangster - was accidentally injured in the fracas, and then immediately died of his injuries…"īut beyond that, neither of the 228 memorial museums had any information about Chen Wen-hsi, not even a photo. Luckily, I found the information at the National 228 Museum. I also wanted to find the truth of this matter. The next morning, they raised a commotion, shouting loudly: 'Taiwanese people, stand up!’ Boss Chen called on all the nearby businesses to close up shop, because the king of the streets was about to go berserk. When Mu-jung heard the news of his brother’s death, he immediately organized a crowd of people at the corner of Longshan Temple and Yanping Road. “ … it’s a question I’ve never been able to unlock, what kind of person was he? How did his death turn into a significant event the next day? Commentator Kyu Eikan (邱永漢) said Chen Wen-hsi (陳文溪) was the younger brother of Chen Mu-jung (陳木榮), a hoodlum from Bangka (now Taipei’s Wanhua district). In his book Joy in Taiwan, Japanese cultural scholar Inuhiko Yomota (四方田犬彥) recorded a passage in which he recalled the suspense he felt visiting Dadaocheng, the birthplace of 228: This piece first appeared in Initium Media (端傳媒) and is the copyright of the publisher. He was also an unemployed loafer and the brother of a notorious crime boss. Chen Wen-hsi was the first casualty of the 228 Massacre.
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