Category:Caotun Cide Temple, Religious temple in Caotun, Nantou County, Taiwan.

Caotun Cide Temple is a temple in Shanjiao Village, Caotun Township, Nantou County, whose main hall is built as a flat-lying gourd of pink-painted concrete, with a dragon carved on its right side and a phoenix on its left. In front stands a worship pavilion shaped like a large straw hat, about 20 square metres, painted yellow-white like bamboo sheath and lit by many small bulbs. The hat is supported by four dragon pillars, and the gourd's entrance is shaped as the gourd's mouth.

Fruit farmer Zhang Wenqi donated his starfruit orchard in Shanjiao Village for the temple, taking out an NT$800,000 loan from the Caotun Farmers' Association. Construction began in 1979 and the temple was completed in 1984, built to a gourd-shaped design with a straw-hat pavilion. Zhang later said dreams in 1990, 1996 and 2007 had instructed him to build it.

The deities are called "Namo Fude Rulai Buddha" and "Namo Fude Rulai Fo", a Buddhist title given to the earth god. Zhang Wenqi said he made only one statue himself, a six-chi-two-inch figure; worshippers brought the nearly one hundred others now filling the two halls. A small opening beside the gourd is painted with scenes of the Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars.

The temple stands at No. 55, Weihu Lane, Hushan Road, Shanjiao Village, Caotun Township. The grounds sit on Hushan's banyan ridge, and the temple forecourt looks down over Caotun's urban area, Zhongxing New Village and the Nangang Industrial Zone; on clear days Taichung and Changhua's Bagua Mountain are visible. The banyan behind the temple, over a century old, and the surroundings tidied by Zhang Wenqi make the site a morning exercise and evening strolling spot for nearby residents.

The 19 dragon pillars in front were paid for by an elderly betel-nut seller who gave over NT$2 million; they rise about eight storeys and carry a Guanyin statue on top. At night the dragons' eyes shine so brightly that they can be seen from the summit of Hengshan, more than 20 km away.