A small earth god shrine in the rice paddies of Yuanli, Miaoli, notable for being featured in the book Parasitic Temples as the Field Temple (田中廟). It was selected not for any specific history of its own but as a representative examples of the tens of thousands of similar field shrines (田頭田尾土地公) scattered across the Taiwanese countryside. It was renovated in the late 2010s and no longer appears quite as it did in the book.
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Sources
- Lai Po-Wei, Parasitic Temples, Yeren Publishing House, 2017 賴伯威，《寄生之廟：台灣都市夾縫中的街廟觀察，適應社會變遷的常民空間圖鑑》，野人，2017
Themes
- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
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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.