Founded in 1734 by the scholar Wu Shiguang (吳仕光), this Guangong temple is the oldest in Madou, sited on the historical boundary between Han and Pingpu Indigenous settlements. Near-destruction in the 1768 Qianlong earthquake brought a joint Han-Indigenous reconstruction commemorated in two Qianlong era stelae, including the 1777 inscription that settled a dispute between Han and Indigenous residents over temple tax obligations. The complex was reoriented from a north-south to an east-west axis and rebuilt in southern Chinese style in 1868, with the Lingxiao Hall (凌霄寶殿) added in 1976.
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Center For GIS, Academia Sinica (文化資源地理資訊系統)
Themes
- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
- Qing Dynasty Era Taiwan (清治時期台灣)
- Indigenous People of Taiwan (台灣原住民)
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