Chin Pao San is a private cemetery in Jinshan District, New Taipei City, on Taiwan’s northern coast. Its setting looks out toward the sea and the surrounding hills, but it remains first and foremost a place of burial, remembrance and family visits. The North Coast and Guanyinshan National Scenic Area Administration lists the grounds as a visitor stop, while the operator presents the site as a landscaped memorial complex. That distinction matters: visitors are entering an active cemetery, not an ordinary public sculpture park.
The cemetery’s operator traces its beginnings to 1977, when founder Ryh-Chang Tsao established Jinshan Peace Cemetery, the predecessor of Chin Pao San, and the company that developed the grounds. The operator’s own history says it began promoting a park-like approach in the 1980s and moved toward integrating art into the landscape in the 1990s. These are corporate milestones, but they help explain the difference between the site’s designed gardens and the image many people have of a conventional burial ground.