The Yong'an Temple () at
Mailiao Township,
Yunlin County
Yunlin County (Mandarin pinyin: ''Yúnlín Xiàn''; Taigi POJ: ''Hûn-lîm-koān''; Hakka PFS: ''Yùn-lìm-yen'') is a county in western Taiwan. Yunlin County borders the Taiwan Strait to the west, Nantou County to the east, Changhua County t ...
,
Taiwan
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is a temple dedicated to the deity
Kai Zhang Sheng Wang (開漳聖王), who his followers refer to as the "Sacred Duke, Founder of
Zhangzhou
Zhangzhou (), alternately romanized as Changchow, is a prefecture-level city in Fujian Province, China. The prefecture around the city proper comprises the southeast corner of the province, facing the Taiwan Strait and surrounding the prefec ...
City".
History
The
groundbreaking
Groundbreaking, also known as cutting, sod-cutting, turning the first sod, or a sod-turning ceremony, is a traditional ceremony in many cultures that celebrates the first day of construction for a building or other project. Such ceremonies are o ...
for the temple was on 18 August 1991. Most of the structure was completed within a year. The original temple name was the "Yongji temple". It was later renamed the "Yongan temple".
Worship
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Kai Zhang Sheng Wang
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Wu Xiao Kuan
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San Tai Zi
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Tu Di Gong
Tudigong ( "Lord of the Soil and the Ground") or Tudishen ( "God of the Soil and the Ground"), also known simply as Tudi ( "Soil-Ground") is a tutelary deity of a locality and the human communities who inhabit it in Chinese folk religion and Tao ...
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Songzi Niangniang
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Tiger God
Cultural activities
*Chen Yuanguang's birthday: October 3 (on the
Chinese calendar
The traditional Chinese calendar (also known as the Agricultural Calendar 曆; 农历; ''Nónglì''; 'farming calendar' Former Calendar 曆; 旧历; ''Jiùlì'' Traditional Calendar 曆; 老历; ''Lǎolì'', is a lunisolar calendar ...
)
References
Yangcho Community●Culture and industry
1991 establishments in Taiwan
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1991
Temples in Yunlin County
Taoist temples in Taiwan
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