Pictures of Taiwan Righteous Robber Liao Tian Ding (台灣義賊廖添丁)

Liao Tian Ding (廖添丁), a Righteous Robber whom born in AD1883, 15th Day of Lunar 4 Month. Hometown in Taiwan, Tai Zhong Area (台灣台中市).

At the age of 2, Liao’s Father was killed due to an argument. After Liao’s Father passed-away, his Mother – Madam Wang Zu (王足), started to go around in the whole Country to look for Good Lawyer to fight for her husband’s innocent death.

After years of traveling and engaging of Lawyers, Madam Wang Zu was down with terrible debts, in-order to support the family, Madam Wang Zu had to re-marry to another guy known as Cai Rong (蔡榮) as the Mistress and so Liao had to follow his mother to married into the Cai Family.

Upon marrying into the Cai Family, Cai Rong’s initial wife couldn’t get along with Liao and Madam Wang Zu decided to send Liao to his aunt’s place and so from then, Liao stayed with his aunt known as Liao Ah Bao (廖阿寶).

At a young age, Liao started to work as coolie in a nearby shop, due to his mischievous attitude, Liao always get into trouble and his aunt had to step out to cease the trouble created.

After growing up, Liao followed his hometown-mate to Taipei to look for jobs.

Upon reaching Taipei (台北), Liao got a job in a shop as an assistant selling the daily necessities. One day, Liao was being accused for stealing some of the items in the shop and was sacked immediately by the boss, from then, Liao’s bad reputation was being spread around the town and no one dared to employ him.

With the boycotting by the Town people, Liao had to wander around to seeking assistances from the others.

As Liao’s age got older, Liao slowly understood that how Japanese Government tortured his fellow Country-mate (during that Era, Taiwan was under the governor of Japan), Liao started to create a lot of trouble for the Japanese Governor and at certain times, Liao even sneaked into houses of such Rich Japanese to steal money and valuable stuffs to distribute out to the suffering Taiwanese.

Year 1909 (明治四十二年), 18th Day of Lunar 11 Month, Liao was being asked to meet up with some of his friends in one of the deserted place in Ba Li County (八里鄉). Due to few days of standing guard against the Japanese invading, Liao was terribly exhausted and felt restless. Just at the time of seeing his friends approaching, Liao stood up to wave to them and just at that very moment, Liao saw a group of Japanese Soldiers running towards him carrying their Guns.

Liao wanted to run but due to his tiring physical body, Liao was caught and after the Japanese Soldiers caught him, Liao refused to surrender to them and on the spot, Liao was being killed, at that time, Liao was only 26 years old.

After Liao’s death, those people who had got his kind assistances before, set up Altars for him, in-order to show their gratitude to Liao. And the friends that betrayed Liao was being boycott by the fellow people.

Few decades later, Temples dedicating to Liao were built in-order to keep in memory of how Liao showed his braveness while fighting against the invaders.