A roadside shrine in the Shekou area of Shengang, Taichung, dedicated to Shitougong (石頭公), a Stone God. By tradition worship began in the Kangxi reign, when Zhang Dajing (張達京) and his brothers found a human-shaped black stone in an irrigation channel and set it on the bank; villagers came to venerate it after it was credited with quieting their crying infants. Repaired repeatedly from 1945 onward, the shrine gained a large stone effigy in 1976 and a pavilion in 1979. It sits directly above the Huludun Canal (葫蘆墩圳) and is managed by the nearby Wanxing Temple (萬興宮), which enshrines Zhang Dajing’s spirit tablet.
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- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
- Han Settlement of Taiwan (漢人移墾)
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