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 Yu-Chi Stele

The Yu-Chi Stele


It has been said that the Five Lords were ennobled by the Jade Emperor himself and that their mission on earth is to report on man’s works of good and evil in the world. Thus they are known collectively as Daitian Shunshou (Heaven’s Terrestrial Inspectors) and their earthly palace is called Daitian (‘on heaven’s behalf’). The main marquee above the main temple gate, which reads ‘Nankunshen Daitianfu’, directly reflects this story.
      Three dragons are exquisitely portrayed in the wood marquee, which is set above the twin protector dragons carved deftly into the stone lintel above the doorway. A part of the temple since it first opened, this is one of the temple’s most important and historically valuable items.


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