A cluster of three small temples sharing a single entrance at the foot of the Xindian River embankment in Guting Riverside Park, nicknamed One Slope, Three Temples (一坡三廟) in the book Parasitic Temples. The site is said to lie near a ferry landing in use during the Qing dynasty, and one of the temples venerates Wanxinggong (萬姓公), the collective spirits of the unattended dead. According to local accounts, gamblers ruined by the Dajiale (大家樂) lottery craze of the 1980s threw idols into the river, and these temples took in many of the figures that washed ashore.
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- 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
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- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
- Ghost Island (鬼島)
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