RS100 = Top 100 Religious Scenes of Taiwan.
The "Top 100 Religious Scenes of Taiwan" encompass a hundred iconic religious sites and activities that were chosen via public vote and announced by the Ministry of Interior on Nov. 22, 2013. these sites embody the history of early Taiwanese settlers and illustrate both diversity and the island's religious landscape.
Sung Shan Tzu Yu Temple is the first temple from which a Mazu statue was consecrated to be taken from Taiwan and enshrined in a temple in mainland China.
A typical traditional temple, Song Shan Tzu Yu Temple was in earlier times the primary religious center for the residents of the 13 villages that today constitute the Songshan, Xinyi, Nangang, Neihu, Zhongshan, and Daan Districts of Taipei. Over the past two centuries, the temple has accumulated many historical artifacts, including an inscription board bestowed by famed Qing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong, the lions that guard the door of the Sanchuan Hall made during Emperor Jiaqing’s reign (1796 – 1820), stone sculptures, and carved stone wall reliefs from different eras. The Xikou (Songshan) Mazu title tablet found in Fujian in 2012 is concrete evidence indicating that Song Shan Tzu Yu Temple was the first Mazu temple in Taiwan from which a copy of a Mazu statue was consecrated to be taken and enshrined in mainland China.
Song Shan Tzu Yu Temple, commonly known as Song Shan Mazu Temple, is dedicated to the Heavenly Holy Mother (Mazu). Beginning in 1736, mendicant monk Heng Zhen (secular name Lin Shouyi, 1713 – 1784), from Quanzhou, began carrying a statue of Mazu with him during his travels to disseminate Her teachings. In the following year, Heng came to Taiwan. He came ashore at Huwei (today’s Danshui), and went straight to Xikou (Songshan) where the local gentry was mostly composed of immigrants from Quanzhou who were also Mazu followers. As a result, a proposal was made to raise funds to build a temple. Construction was completed in 1757 and the temple was named Xikou Mazu Temple. It quickly became the primary religious venue for the residents of the 13 villages of the Xikou area. Sometime between 1760 and 1850, a ship operator named Zhang took a title tablet of Mazu back to Xianyou in mainland China and built a temple dedicated to Mazu there. He also requested a Mazu statue duplicate from Xikou Mazu Temple and escorted it to be enshrined in Xianxia Mazu Temple in Fujian. In 1920, during the Japanese occupation, Xikou was renamed Songshan and the temple was also renamed Songshan Tzu Yu Temple. A fire broke out in the main hall in 1983, and the temple’s appearance today is the result of reconstruction that took place after this event. In 2012, when the Mazu statue of Tzu Yu Temple was on a parade in Fujian, the Xikou Mazu title tablet that Zhang had commissioned was recovered and brought back to Taiwan along with a tablet memorializing Heng Zhen and several other precious historical artifacts.
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