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Established in 1979 in front of the now-vanished Cailiao Railway Station (糖鐵菜寮車站) in a small town in Zuozhen, Tainan, this is a syncretic shrine fusing the believes of Han Taiwanese and Taiwanese Plains Indigenous people. From the outside it looks like any other temple in rural Taiwan, but step inside and you’ll find the main altar to Prince Chifu (池府千歲) paired with a side altar containing a ceremonial vessel wrapped in a red paper, a manifestation of the Taivoan Plains Indigenous deity Taizu (太祖).
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
Themes
- Temple Culture in Taiwan (台灣的寺廟文化)
- Indigenous People of Taiwan (台灣原住民)
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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.