My hometown HuaLien

I don't know why but my aussie boyfriend keep sing a song and changed the lyrics, he put my hometown's name on it, HuaLien. For someone don't speak in Chinese I am very impress that he could remember it. So I asked him if he knows the meaning about HuaLien. Of course the answer is no, no wonder, I think I never told him before. After I checked some information about why HuaLien names HuaLien, I found the corret answer.
In the outfall of HuaLien river, there is Japan Current pass through from south to north, and it crash the rock on coast. When HuaLien river's water into the ocean right here, people call this view "Hui-Lan" in taiwanese, and harbor in here names "Hui-Lan Gang(mean harbor)". In Ching dynasty, the government renamed it "Hua'Lian Gang" because it sounds better, but japanese renamed it to "Hua-Lian" only during japan control Taiwan.
But do you know, if you say Hua-Lien to Lien-Hua, it would has different meaning. Lien-Hua means Lotus in chinese. In long long time ago no one would like to live in Hualien, because it too far away form city and very unconvenient to get here, that's why people call here "Back of the monutain". If you don't understand why and let me tell you. Taiwan has a main mountain between east and west, but people lived in west of Taiwan in long time ago because west is near by China and there is where they from. But more and more people came to Taiwan and west part was getting crowd, so some people decided to find a new land to live.
Anyway, because HuaLien is far away from city, and that's why HuaLien doesn't has much environmental pollution. Just like Lotus grow up in mud but still look so purely.
Now my aussie boyfriend keep call me "Lotus girl", but have you seen Lotus has dark skin before??