Nankunshen Temple

 

Main Door Couplet

The Yu-Chi Stele

Statues of the Five Lords

Inspection Orders of the Five Lords

Stone Censer of the Five Lords

The Kaishan Tablet

Wood Carved Couplets, Ching Shan Temple

The‘Spirits Watch Over the Eastern Seas’Marquee Board

The‘Light Embraces All Four Directions’ Marquee

The ‘Spider Making its Web’ Pavilion

Octagonal Dragon Pillars

‘Pray for Joy and Happiness’

Scenes of Bamboo by Cheng Hsieh

Twin Dragons Gaze Upon the‘Three Stars’– Cut Tile Mosaic

‘Abandoned Lions’ Cut Tile Mosaic

Traditional ‘Palanquin-Style’ Roof Eaves

The Money Wall

Painted Door Gods

Long Hou (Dragon Throat) Well

Bronze Drums

 

 

The Money Wall

The Money Wall


The wall at the back of the main Altar Hall (which is also the wall that stands directly in front of Ching Shan Temple) is the only temple anywhere in Taiwan made of blocks of coral reef (laogu stone).

Money’ is stacked in groups of nines and fives, and laid so tightly that joints are barely perceptible.

The Money Wall, 6 feet 2 inches by 10 feet 56 inches, is elegantly designed and decorated in subtle colors. ‘Welcoming Fortune and Prosperity’ is the underlying message here. It was donated in 1926 by Nei Chien Temple on Xiyu Islet in the Penghu Archipelago. Coral blocks used in construction were brought over by boat from the Penghus, across the Taiwan Strait.


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