Wufeng Nantian Temple

A Mazu temple immediately north of the Wufeng Lin Family Garden in Wufeng. It originated with an idol carried back from Zhangzhou (漳州) in 1863 by Lin Wencha (林文察) to bless the fleet ferrying his troops across the strait to suppress the Dai Chaochun uprising (戴潮春事件). After the campaign the statue was kept inside the family compound for private worship. Lin Wencha’s mother later commissioned a modest brick-and-tile public hall behind Gongbaodi (宮保第) so that surrounding villagers could pay their respects, and the icon was eventually moved into a freestanding temple on this site in 1970.

The temple expanded steadily over the following decades but was heavily damaged by the 921 Earthquake in 1999. Restoration work continued through the 2000s. In 2021 the temple installed a newly carved statue of Lin Wencha himself, posthumously titled Lord Gangyi (剛毅公), formally folding the family patriarch into the local pantheon alongside the Mazu icon he originally brought home from Fujian.