Nantou Peitian Temple

A Mazu temple in Nantou City known as four temples in one (四廟合一), combining shrines to Mazu, Guanyin, Chenghuang, and Tudigong, each kept as a separate hall. The Mazu temple was founded in 1799, and the Japanese administration consolidated the four onto the present site in 1917; its Chenghuang birthday procession remains one of Nantou’s major religious events. In the main hall stands a pair of mid-Qing southern-style lions carved from bluestone (青斗石), installed during an 1849 expansion. As the temple’s only century-old relic to survive its successive relocations and the upheaval of the 921 Earthquake, the lions were designated a general antiquity in 2014.