Luzhu Houji Temple

A rural temple in Dade Village (大德村) in Dapi, Yunlin. It was originally established in 1892 to venerate Xuanwu (玄天上帝) and the mummy of a local spirit medium, Kua Tshiūnn (柯象). Kua died in his 30s in 1878 and his body was worshipped as a deity by villagers. In 1912 another spirit medium, Huang Chao (黃朝), planned an anti-Japanese uprising, later named the Tuku Incident (土庫事件). Huang marshalled believers with messages supposedly coming from Kua, and after his plans were foiled the mummy was seized as criminal evidence. Only in 1993 was the mummy brought out of storage and studied, and in 2011 it was returned to the temple, which had been reconstructed in the post-war era.