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

 

 

Statues of the Five Lords

Statues of the Five Lords


With the completion of their first temple at Kunshen Hill, the Five Lords asked Mafu, a renowned sculptor from Fujian Province, to travel to Taiwan to carve their images using the sacred tree trunk that accompanied them to Taiwan. Five sections of the trunk were used to carve new images of each of the Five Lords. With the remaining sixth, Mafu carved Zhongjunfu, the messenger god. Today, these six images are known collectively as Kaiji Zhengshen. The skill used to carve these statues was exquisite - every line reflects practiced technique tempered by aesthetic brilliance. At over 330 years of age, these statues are the oldest of Nankunshen’s many treasures.


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