Magong Chenghuang Temple
| Magong Chenghuang Temple Magong City God Temple | |
|---|---|
媽宮城隍廟 | |
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| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Taoism |
| Location | |
| Location | 20 Guangming Rd., Magong City, Penghu County 880 |
| Architecture | |
| Founder | Xie Wei-Qi (謝維祺) |
| Completed | 1779[1] |
Magong Chenghuang Temple (Chinese: 媽宮城隍廟; pinyin: Māgōng Chénghuáng Miào) is a temple in Magong, Penghu, Taiwan. This temple mainly serves Chenghuangye, means the lord of City. (Chinese: 城隍爺; pinyin: Chéng-huáng-yé), a taoist God, who is in charge of the underworld of an administrative district ( a little similar to Hades), so it was translated to the City God usually.
History[edit]
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Traditionally, there is only one Chenghuang Temple in each county or city, placed next to the city hall.[2] An exception to this is in Penghu County, where there are two Chenghuang temples. The original city hall of Penghu (澎湖廳署) was located at Wenao (文澳) district, so the Chenghuang Temple was built there as well.
But Wenao Chenghuang Temple was too narrow to express the residents' respect enough.[needs copy edit][3] Hence, In 1777, XIE Wei-Qi (Chinese: 謝維祺; pinyin: Xiè wéi qí ), an officer of Penghu (澎湖海防糧補通判) during Qing Dynasty, suggested the establishment of another one in the Magong harbour area. The new one was completed in 1779.[4]
The temple was damaged during the Sino-French War in 1885. It was said that Chenghuangye was seen protecting people from war and insecurity. After the war was over and French navy retreated in the autumn of 1885, Chenghuang Temple was repaired. In the next year, according to folk stories, Guangxu Emperor promoted Magong Chenghuangye's religious rank.[5]
Afterwards, Magong Chenghuangye named Lin Ying Hou (Chinese: 靈應侯; pinyin: líng yīng hóu) as well.[5] The meaning of Lin Ying Hou, its first character Lin (靈) means "spirit"; and the second character Ying (應) means "feel" or "answer"; the third character Hou (侯), means " one of ranks of Chinese nobilIty". So, Lin Ying Hou (靈應侯) means that this lord of god who will show its spirit to answer you, or you can feel the spirit appear.
Architecture[edit]
In addition, Magong Chenghuang Temple also collected a plenty of beautiful wooden carvings, colorful paintings, historic sign boards or steles, very worthy to take time to discover.
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The Gate of the Temple. -
The Painting of Beams -
Main Hall -
Chenghuangye (City God)
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Sign Board: Repentance comes too late. -
Sign Board: You come. -
Abacus: for calculating your deed of kindness and guilty when you were alive. -
The Painting of Architecture.
See also[edit]
- Penghu Mazu Temple
- Penghu Guanyin Temple
- Magong Beiji Temple
- Penghu Shuixian Temple
- List of temples in Taiwan
References[edit]
- ^ "媽宮城隍廟". National Cultural Heritage Database Management System (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Bureau of Cultural Heritage. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
- ^ "Penghu.Info｜城隍廟". 2018-03-20.
- ^ Lin, Hao (1983). 澎湖廳志. Taipei City: 成文. p. 48.
- ^ Chen. Kao, Lin, Kuo (2010). 2010澎湖縣文化資產手冊. Penghu: Cultural Affairs Bureau of Penghu County. p. 60. ISBN 9789860262797.
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