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

 

 

Long Hou (Dragon Throat) Well

Long Hou (Dragon Throat) Well


After the temple was raised at Kanglang, the area remained bone dry despite persistent efforts to locate a water source. One day, a spring burst forth from a grove of trees behind the temple. Its sweet waters were clean and crisp, refreshing and invigorating. For residents, it was yet another example of the Five Lords’ munificence. Springing from the geomantic ‘Dragon’s Vein’, the spring was called the dragon’s throat and a well was built to protect this miraculous font of water.

A line written by local poet Chen Chang-yen, “Those seeking to cleanse their hands, should look no further than the dragon’s throat; and move forward, unsullied, unto Tiger Hill,” describes this wondrous spring.


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