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The foremost temple venerating Lord Guangze (廣澤尊王) in Taiwan. It was originally established in 1662 by General Chen Yonghua (陳永華), who was later deified and also enshrined in this temple. An incinerator in the forecourt is crowned by the head of a mythical leviathan (鰲) in reference to a chengyu, or Chinese idiom, “perched on top of the sea monster’s head” (鰲頭獨占).
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Center For GIS, Academia Sinica (文化資源地理資訊系統)
Themes
- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
- Ming-Zheng Era Taiwan (明鄭時期)
- Koxinga’s Legacy (國姓爺的歷史影響)
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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.