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The Chenghuang Temple: History
1media/QingAn.jpgmedia/Chenghuang.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:25-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f352This page discusses the establishment of the Chenghuang Temple.image_header2019-12-08T16:20:28-05:0025.13105, 121.74047pre-1895Evan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyCity God; Liu MingchuanEvan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44The last of the main temples to be established was the Chenghuang miao, or City God Temple. Although the smallest and least socially-rooted of the three, the Chenghuang Temple's existence bore foundational linkages to modern Jilong and symbolized the city's prominence in the sacred geography of the Chinese spiritual realm. The City God, Chenghuang Ye, was a key figure in the official pantheon, as it was a deity who oversaw the safety and stability of locations that were particularly important in the administrative hierarchy. The cheng in the deity's name was the same character as wall (城), and only places significant enough to get walls around them usually received Chenghuang Temples. Jilong was not such a place. Neverthless, when Liu Mingchuan, a leader of the late-Qing self-strengthening movement, became Taiwan's first governor in 1885 he directed his modernizing attentions on Jilong's harbor as the gateway to Taiwan and its new capital, Taipei. In response, local residents took it upon themselves to consecrate the town for Chenghuang Ye. In 1887, two local civil-service examination degree holders established a small temple in the deity's honor, just off the water's edge and a couple of blocks north of the Qing'an. Given the powers of the City God--if the ceremonies in his honor were properly performed--his sacred territory overlapped with the entire physical geography under the administration of Jilong's local officials.
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1media/QingAn.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:24-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Dianji Temple: Extra-Religious ActivitiesEvan Dawley7This page discusses the Dianji Temple's function as the site of a market and of "culture lectures" and other activities.image_header2019-12-08T23:18:51-05:0025.12811, 121.743111920sEvan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyTaiwan Government-General; Taiwan Culture AssociationEvan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44
12019-11-18T17:21:25-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fJilong's Pre-colonial Sacred GeographyEvan Dawley8This page introduces the sacred spaces that existed in Jilong before Japanese colonization, with a focus on the main three temples (Qing'an, Dianji, and Chenghuang Temples).image_header2020-01-06T16:35:09-05:0025.1276, 121.739181895Evan N. Dawley, Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s (Harvard Asia Center Press, 2019).Evan N. DawleyTaiwan Government-General; Taiwan nichinichi shinpōEvan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44
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1media/QingAn.jpgmedia/Chenghuang1:2.png2019-11-18T17:21:30-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Chenghuang Temple: Reopening and Renovation after 18954This page will examine the importance of the Chenghuang Temple for the reopening of temples in Jilong more geneally.image_header2019-12-08T23:06:54-05:0025.13105, 121.740471895-1897Evan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyPrince Kitashirakawa no Miya Yoshihisa; Chenghuang Ye; Taiwan Government-GeneralEvan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44
