The Shigong Temple () is a temple in Magong City,

Penghu County The Penghu ( , Hokkien POJ: ''Phîⁿ-ô͘'' or ''Phêⁿ-ô͘'' ) or Pescadores Islands are an archipelago of 90 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait, about west of the main island of Taiwan across the Penghu Channel, coveri ...

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. It was founded between 1683 and 1696 around, for commemorating

Shi Lang Shi Lang (1621–1696), Marquis Jinghai, also known as Secoe or Sego, was a Chinese admiral who served under the Ming dynasty, Ming and Qing dynasty, Qing dynasties in the 17th century. He was the commander-in-chief of the Qing fleets which dest ...

(Chinese: 施琅,1621-1696), a famous general of the Navy during the

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, who defeated

Liu Guoxuan Liu Guoxuan (1628–1693) was the Wuping Marquis and a 17th-century military officer of the Kingdom of Tungning based in Taiwan. He fought all over the island of Taiwan and the nearby mainland. He also commanded the Penghu defense during the B ...

(Chinese: 劉國軒, pinyin: liú guó xuān), who belonged with

Kingdom of Tungning The Kingdom of Tungning, also known as Tywan, was a dynastic maritime state that ruled part of southwestern Taiwan and the Penghu islands between 1661 and 1683. It is the first predominantly ethnic Han state in Taiwanese history. At its z ...

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sea area in 1683. Qing Empire added Penghu and Taiwan to its domains in the next year. After Shi Lang was conferred as Marquess by

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, some people built this temple in the area of Penghu hospital when Shi Lang was alive. The original name of Shigong Temple was called "General Shi Temple (

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: 施將軍廟)" in the beginning.

History

1832 ( Daoguang 12th year of Qing dynasty), General Shi Temple started to serve some soldiers who died in "''Rebellion of Zhang Bing'' (Chinese: 張丙之亂)" happened in

Main Island, afterwards, General Shi Temple changed its name into "Shigong Temple". During Qing dynasty, there were many pilgrims visited Shigong Temple daily, its scale of construction was also much larger than the present. Entering the period of Japan rule, the Japanese ruler started to promote the historical status of

Koxinga Zheng Chenggong (; 27 August 1624 – 23 June 1662), born Zheng Sen () and better known internationally by his honorific title Koxinga (, from Taiwanese: ''kok sèⁿ iâ''), was a Southern Ming general who resisted the Qing conquest of Chin ...

, who was the founder of Tungning Kingdom, based on his mixed descent. ( Koxinga's mother was a Japanese from

Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan's Japanese archipelago, four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa Island, Okinawa and the other Ryukyu Islands, Ryukyu (''Nansei'') Ryukyu Islands, Islands ...

.) As a result,

as a conquer of Tungning Kingdom, his political status would be demeaned by the Japan ruler undoubtedly, so it affected the visitors of Shigong Temple was fewer until the present. According to the establishment of Penghu hospital in 1914 ( Taishō 3rd year of

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), the Shigong Temple was moved to the eastern side of Tianhou Temple (Chinese: 天后宮), where was ever a kitchen of military camp during Qing dynasty.

Gallery

File:Generaal Shi Lang met een gezelschap hoogwaardigheidsbekleders bij een waterput aan zee.jpg File:施公祠.jpg File:施公祠神明廳.jpg File:施公祠：寰海皆春匾.jpg File:施公祠香油捐獻碑.jpg File:施公祠＿重修碑.jpg

References

Taoist temples in Taiwan Temples in Penghu County {{Taiwan-religious-struct-stub