A wangye temple in the Niutiaowan (牛挑灣) settlement of southern Puzi, originally founded around 1785 with incense derived from Nankunshen (南鯤鯓). The temple is notable for its tiger deity, Huye (虎爺), unusually enshrined on the altar rather than beneath it, whose birthday procession on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month draws crowds of devotees who lie prone in the street for the palanquin to pass over them.
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Links
- Center For GIS, Academia Sinica (文化資源地理資訊系統)
- Liberty Times (自由時報)
Themes
- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
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