This year Hsinchu celebrates the 170th anniversary of its founding, as dated from the completion of the stone city walls in 1829. However, as early as 1733 the inhabitants surrounded their settlement with bamboo palisades, which later became earthen defenses and eventually stone walls.
今年新竹慶祝建城一百七十周年，則是自一八二九年（清道光九年）石頭城牆興築完成開始算起，但是早在清雍正十一年（一七三三年），居民為了界分、保護，就沿聚落周圍插植竹子為城牆，後來改築土牆，再改建為石牆。