An obscure temple on the outskirts of Beigang built to venerate Yan Siqi (顏思齊), an early Han Chinese settler and pirate nicknamed the Pioneer King of Taiwan (開台王). He is credited with founding several villages in the Beigang area in the early 1620s. The temple itself was built around 2006 and contains several other unusual deities. It is located in Shuilin, Yunlin.
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
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- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
- European Colonial Era Taiwan (荷西統治時期)
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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.