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The Dianji Temple: History
1media/QingAn.jpgmedia/Dianjigong.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:25-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f351This page discusses the establishment of the Dianji Temple and its associations with Zhangzhou in particular.image_header2019-11-18T17:21:25-05:0025.12811, 121.74311pre-1895Evan Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyQuanzhou; Zhangzhou; Kaizhang shengwang; Qing'an TempleKate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Dianji gong was the second of the main temples established in Jilong, and it represented the particular character of the settlement of North Taiwan. Across the southwest and central coasts, the regions with the longest history of Chinese settlement, Quanzhou people generally arrived first and in larger numbers, but in the north, it was the Zhangzhou settlers who preceded and predominated. These people honored one deity in particular, in addition to Mazu, a figure known as Kaizhang shengwang: the Sage Lord who opened Zhangzhou. These Chinese "pioneers" of northern Taiwan brought their pioneering deity with them, and installed him within the Qing'an Temple, alongside Mazu. As Jilong's status among Taiwan's port towns grew during the late 19th century, its growth promoted in part by foreign interest in the island's tea, sugar, and camphor, local residents decided that the Kaizhang shengwang needed a home of his own, and in 1875 they built the Dianji Temple in his honor, a few blocks east of his previous abode. By doing so, they demarcated a new piece of sacred terrain in the small town, one with historical and institutional threads that connected it back to the Qing'an, with the street that ran between them serving as both a physical and metaphysical conduit.
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1media/QingAn.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:29-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Qing'an Temple: Meizhou and the Heimian Mazu CultEvan Dawley5This page discusses the 1914 trip to Meizhou, home of the Mazu cult in Fujian, China, to retrieve a new image of the deity Mazu, and the establishment of the temple as a center of the Heimian Mazu cult.image_header2019-12-08T15:53:49-05:0025.12962, 121.740771914-1915Evan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyXu Zisang; Quanzhou; HualianEvan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44
12019-11-18T17:21:25-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fJilong's Pre-colonial Sacred GeographyEvan Dawley3This 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_header2019-12-08T14:08:17-05:0025.1276, 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.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:24-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Dianji Temple: Renovation1This page examines the renovation of the Dianji Temple during the early 1920simage_header2019-11-18T17:21:24-05:0025.12811, 121.743111920sEvan N. Dawley, Becoming TaiwaneseEvan N. DawleyQing'an Temple; Chenghuang Temple; Xu Zisang; Yan Guonian; Lin BenyuanKate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f
