Pegasus Tea House Introduction
The famous café founded by Chan Tien-Ma, who was a renowned movie narrator during the Japanese colonial period. On February 27, 1947, a monopolization bureau investigator conducted a raid around the Tien-Ma Teahouse, where a tobacco vendor named Lin Jiang-Mai was arrested and his money and cigarettes confiscated. Lin pleaded with the crowd for leniency, but during the altercation, investigator Yeh Te-Ken injured Lin. The crowd was enraged, and investigator Fu Hsueh-Tung fired a warning shot that accidentally killed a bystander, Chen Wen-Hsi, further escalating the situation. The following day, the public gathered at the Taipei Bridge and marched to the monopolization bureau to petition, which ultimately led to the 228 Incident.
