The Yong'an Temple () at Mailiao Township,

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is a temple dedicated to the deity Kai Zhang Sheng Wang (開漳聖王), who his followers refer to as the "Sacred Duke, Founder of

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City".

History

The

groundbreaking Groundbreaking, also known as cutting, sod-cutting, turning the first sod, turf-cutting, or a sod-turning ceremony, is a traditional ceremony in many cultures that celebrates the first day of construction for a building or other project. Such cer ...

for the temple was on 18 August 1991. Most of the structure was completed within a year. The original temple name was the "Yongji temple". It was later renamed the Yong'an Temple or Temple of Everlasting Peace.

Worship

* Kai Zhang Sheng Wang * Wu Xiao Kuan * San Tai Zi *

Tu Di Gong A Tudigong ( zh, s=土地公, l=Lord of the Land) is a kind of Chinese tutelary deity of a specific location. There are several Tudigongs corresponding to different geographical locations and sometimes multiple ones will be venerated together in ...

* Songzi Niangniang * Tiger God

Cultural activities

*Chen Yuanguang's birthday: October 3 (on the

Chinese calendar The traditional Chinese calendar, dating back to the Han dynasty, is a lunisolar calendar that blends solar, lunar, and other cycles for social and agricultural purposes. While modern China primarily uses the Gregorian calendar for officia ...

)

References

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