A Wenchang shrine in Miaoli City built between 1882 and 1885 by local literati led by the Lin Jichun (林際春) at a site selected by geomancer Wang Donghai (王東海). Miaoli County was carved out of Hsinchu in 1889 but no yamen had been built, leading the first magistrate Lin Guifen (林桂芬) to run the new county government from these halls. That winter the gentry founded the Yingcai Academy (英才書院) inside the shrine’s Cangjie Hall as a school for local talent, an arrangement that lasted six years until the Japanese annexation. The compound was heavily damaged in the 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake and only partially rebuilt afterward. It was gradually restored following its 1985 monument designation.
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Heritage Status
- City Monument (縣(市)定古蹟)
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
- Qing Dynasty Era Taiwan (清治時期台灣)
- Education History in Taiwan (臺灣教育史)
- 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake (新竹台中地震)
- Confucian Academies in Taiwan (臺灣書院)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.