Provincial Wanling Temple

A yin temple (陰廟) in Nantou City built by the Taiwan Provincial Government to house over 2,000 unclaimed remains unearthed during the construction of Zhongxing New Village in the late 1950s. Reputedly the only “provincial” (省立) temple in Taiwan, it venerates the collective unclaimed dead as Wanyinggong (萬應公) and was funded over the years by successive provincial chairmen. Since the downsizing of the Provincial Government in the late 1990s it has lost its subsidy, leaving the management committee to fund upkeep and Ghost Festival rites by donation while petitioning the central government for assistance.