A zhaitang (齋堂), or fasting hall, of the Xiantian (先天) sect of the Zhaijiao (齋教) folk religion founded in 1947 by Huang Yeqing (黃葉青) and her husband Huang Yin (黃寅). The building functions equally as a zhaitang and a spirit-writing luantang (鸞堂); Guanyin is the principal deity, but the hall is best known locally for its resident Five Officials (五府千歲). Road widening in recent decades has cut the compound down to less than half of its original footprint.
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Center For GIS, Academia Sinica (文化資源地理資訊系統)
- Penghu Info (澎湖知識服務平台)
Themes
- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
- Zhaijiao in Taiwan (台灣齋教)
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