Starting from an examination of Takao’s geographical space, this essay will try to clarify the intertwining and often confusing discourse between the terms Takaoyu, Qihou, Takao, and Takaoshe. By looking at the trends of the developments of Kaohsiung plain in the seventeenth century, an explanation will be provided for the historical fact of why Hsinglung Chuang was made the capital of Fengshan County by the Qing Dynasty. This essay will argue that Qihou is not the original settlement for Takaoshe (Takao tribe), and there is no record of Takaoshe in any historical literature. In the seventeenth century, the so called Qihou/Takao should be identified as Hoshan/Takao. In the seventeenth century, Hoshan is a historical s space set up by fishermen from mainland China; while Takao, as referred by the Dutch, should be today’s Shaochuangtou. After the 1630s, the term gradually expands to cover the entire Takao mountain area, where the place was taken over by the Chinese for mining lime stone and logging. Rice was also grown here under the encouragement of VOC, thus kick started another wave of development. As irrigation plays a key role in rice farming, it also determined the development of the center of Kaohsiung settlements in the 17th century. As the conditions of irrigation supply in northern Kaohsiung was far better than the south, the center of Kaohsiung plain had been transferred to the areas of Houjin River and Wantan Port. During the early Qing Dynasty, boosted by political support, Hsinglung Chuang became the eco-political center of the area, stretching all the way up to Er -Chen-Hun River, thus summing up the development of Kaohsiung Plain in the 17th century. As for the plain in mid and down-stream of Love River, the development of this area was greatly restricted by its poor condition for irrigation, which was not improved till the building of Caogong Canal in 1838. Therefore, the gateway to the sea at the area-Qihou/Takao port was also limited in its development.