Sizihwan Lingxing Temple

A temple beside the residence of the former British Consulate venerating Shiba Wanggong (十八王公), eighteen sailors shipwrecked at Sizihwan (西子灣) in 1684 and later killed by Qing dynasty officials who mistook them for rebels. Local residents buried the men and built a small shrine on the hillside, which was moved to the beach below during the Japanese colonial era, reportedly in gratitude for the safe completion of the Sizihwan Tunnel. Displaced again by the expansion of National Sun Yat-sen University (國立中山大學), the temple was rebuilt here in 1984 with Xuantian Shangdi (玄天上帝) installed as principal deity, a change the temple cites in rejecting the label of yin temple (陰廟).