QingDong Taixing Temple, Chinese temple in Qingdong Village, Taiwan.
QingDong Taixing Temple, also called Damaopu Taixing Temple, is a Daoist temple in Dongshi District, Taichung, completed in 1856. Its main hall enshrines the Three Mountain Kings, the Four Village Mother, Guanyin, the Crown Prince, Mazu, the Earth God and the Three Officials; side halls hold the Five Grains Emperor and Confucius on the left and the Sun Star Lord and Child-Giving Goddess on the right. A separate Fulu Bi Jiao Tang behind the main temple honors Guan Sheng Di Jun, Fu You Di Jun and Si Ming Zhen Jun.
Dapu settlers from Chaozhou, Guangdong, brought the Three Mountain Kings to Dongshi, and Zhang Ningshou enshrined the image at home during the Jiaqing era before large-scale land clearing began in 1822. Residents raised funds in 1851 and completed the temple in 1856; Zhang Ningshou, Yang Jiyi and Zhang Denglong donated fields whose grain rents paid for worship and upkeep. The thatched roof was renovated in 1878, land was bought and the building extended in 1908 and 1932, and in 1906 a separate hall, Fulu Bi Jiao Tang, was built behind it for three statues brought from Feifengshan in Hsinchu.
The temple's name, Taixing, is used locally alongside the nickname "Taiwan macaque garden". Its sutra chanting group, about 50 years old and made up of eight members, recites scriptures in the main hall on the birthdays of the enshrined deities, using a chime, large and small wooden fish, cymbals, hand bells, drum and bell to pray for the health and family harmony of Damapu residents.
The temple stands in Qingdong Village, Dongshi District, Taichung, at the mountain edge where Han settlement once met indigenous land. The 2020 Dragon God Mountain-Water Festival drew worshippers through the village with a dragon-procession, guided stops, a market and a water-drawing rite. The temple also holds a water-drawing ceremony when epidemics or livestock and crop disasters alarm residents, as it did on 1 November 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Behind the main hall stands a separate shrine, the Fulu Bi Jiao Tang, built after 1906 when the Three Mountain Kings reportedly ordered a dedicated hall for three deities brought from Feifeng Mountain in Hsinchu: Guan Sheng Di Jun, Fu You Di Jun and Si Ming Zhen Jun. Its side halls hold the Ten Kings of Hell with Ox-Head and Horse-Face, and the City God with his civil and military judges.
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