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

 

 

Stone Censer of the Five Lords

Stone Censer of the Five Lords


During Incense Presentation Festivals of centuries past, the Five Lords centered their activities on Lianghuang Temple (today, near Ximen Road). The air in the temple, heavily laden with the smoke of incense burning for the Five Lords during festivities, led to an order to craft a separate censer exclusively for the ‘Five Kings of Nankunshen’. An original censer of porcelain was replaced in the early 1800s with one carved of stone. The characters ‘The Lords of Nankunshen’ are inscribed horizontally, with the date (the 9th reign year of Qing Dynasty Emperor Jiaqing [1804]) inscribed on the upper right and the name Hsu Yi-sheng marked on the lower left. Both censers, today preserved at Lianghuang Temple, are invaluable reminders of the long-running but no longer practiced Tainan Incense Presentation Festival.


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