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The Chenghuang Temple: History
1media/QingAn.jpgmedia/Chenghuang.jpg2019-11-18T17:21:25-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f356This page discusses the establishment of the Chenghuang Temple.plain2020-08-20T20:56:08-04:0025.13105, 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 place'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 is 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. Nevertheless, 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. If the residents of Jilong properly performed the ceremonies in his honor--his sacred territory could overlap with the entire physical geography under the administration of Jilong's local officials, and protect the whole town.
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1media/Chenghuang.jpg2020-02-29T22:06:25-05:00Evan Dawley7a40080bd5bb656cee837d5befaa3ea8e7a2ac44The Chenghuang TempleKandra Polatis7The Chenghuang Temple is devoted to the City God, a key deity in the official Chinese pantheon.splash51522020-08-11T19:29:27-04:0025.13105, 121.74047Evan N. DawleyKandra Polatis4decfc04157f6073c75cc53dcab9d25e87c02133
12019-11-18T17:21:25-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fJilong's Pre-colonial Sacred GeographyDavid Ambaras38This 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).plain51482020-12-30T15:15:48-05:0025.1276, 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 shinpōDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
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1media/Garnot-Kelung_B_Chenghuang_Circle_thumb.jpg2020-08-20T20:45:46-04:00Chenghuang Temple5With the French map drawn in 1885 as a base, this image shows the location of just the Chenghuang Temple in 1895, represented by a red circle.media/Garnot-Kelung_B_Chenghuang_Circle.jpgplain2020-09-14T12:37:55-04:0025.13105, 121.74047pre-1895Formosa, Reed Digital Collections, https://rdc.reed.edu/c/formosa/s/r?_pp=20&s=b9eb6c40c6e8102cdf471061f7a711dfe8ab14ff&p=18&pp=1.Eugene Germain GarnotCopyright undetermined (http://rightsstatements.org/page/UND/1.0/?language=en).Evan N. DawleySG-0014Printed material