1Kin-San Temple/2Stone tablets/3The justice Temple/4Gi-Fu Temple
The Kin-San
Temple was built over two hundred years ago, and it is one of the country's
historical sites. Its original name was Lin-Chuan Temple.
The oldest carvings were carved on the flat surface of the front of the
temple in 1854. The carvings are very important culture products and the
bullet-holes on them are evidence of the World War II, showing the traces of the
Japanese army's attacking to Taiwan.
The Management Bureau of the Science Park began repairing Kin-San
Temple in 1990 and turned the temple back to it's original appearance.
Now, the Kin-San Temple is once again one of the city's most popular religious
centers.
The Kin-San Temple has a mud carved Guan-Ying statue, which is famous
through Taiwan, a pair of stone lions and eighteen Low-Han. The temple is mostly
made out of bricks, mud and pebbles. And the roof is covered by red
tiles. Overall, it gives people a feeling of closeness and warmth.
The old Kin-San Temple
Stone tablets in Chu-Chong elementary school
There are two ancient stone tablets in Chu-Chong elementary school, which have been there since the Ching dynasty. They are the only precious stone tablets, well-preserved, in the Kin-San-Mian area. They provide lots of historical information and prove that there was a connection between the Lin family (the Lin family cultivated Chu-Bei) and Kin-San-Main.
The stone tablets
The Justice Temple is on a piece of grassland in the third-phase
settlement area of the Science Park. The locals call it Ho-Nan-Gong.
In 1894, China lost the Sino-Japanese War, so they gave Taiwan to
Japan. The Taiwanese fought against the Japan, but could not stop
them from coming in.
The defeated Taiwanese soldiers mostly fled to Taipei county, but some
ran to the other direction: Kin-San- Mian. They were killed by Japanese
and there bones were buried in the fields. Later days, people collected the
bones and made the Ho-Nan-Gong grave.
The Ho-Nan Gong tomb officially moved to the third period settlement area
in 1996 and a temple was built. They later called it The Justice Temple.
Gi-fu-Temple is the united office of six little shrines on the
third-phase settlement area of Science Park .
Because of the Science Park's land-buying project in the
third-phase , the management put all the little shrines together. They spent
about ten million for building the beautiful temple .
(Offered by the Studio of Kin-San-Mian Cultural and Historical Study)