Nankunshen Temple

 

Main Door Couplet

The Yu-Chi Stele

Statues of the Five Lords

Inspection Orders of the Five Lords

Stone Censer of the Five Lords

The Kaishan Tablet

Wood Carved Couplets, Ching Shan Temple

The‘Spirits Watch Over the Eastern Seas’Marquee Board

The‘Light Embraces All Four Directions’ Marquee

The ‘Spider Making its Web’ Pavilion

Octagonal Dragon Pillars

‘Pray for Joy and Happiness’

Scenes of Bamboo by Cheng Hsieh

Twin Dragons Gaze Upon the‘Three Stars’– Cut Tile Mosaic

‘Abandoned Lions’ Cut Tile Mosaic

Traditional ‘Palanquin-Style’ Roof Eaves

The Money Wall

Painted Door Gods

Long Hou (Dragon Throat) Well

Bronze Drums

 

 

‘Pray for Joy and Happiness’

‘Pray for Joy and Happiness’


These carvings are located along the midsection of walls on either side of the Sanchuan Altar entrance. The artistic rendering follows the traditional folk custom of using images as homophones of particular words or ideas. Here, raising a flag; picking up a ball; a halberd and a traditional stone xylophone together create a visual homophone of the auspicious phrase, ‘pray for joy and happiness’.

Pray’ (left): a general raises a flag (homophone of ‘pray’) and a child holding a ball (homophone of ‘supplicate’);

Joy and Happiness’ (right): a general clasps a halberd and a traditional xylophone, which together form a homophone for joyous celebration.


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