Guandu Palace

--Guandu palace has a history of nearly 350 years. It is the oldest Mazu temple in Northern Taiwan.

--The interior decoration art is exquisite, such as wood carving, stone withering, color painting and caisson, all with exquisite technology.

Guandu Palace

Guandu palace originated from Tianhou palace in Meizhou Island, Putian City, Fujian Province. Some Taiwanese believers sometimes got two Madonnas from Meizhou Island In 1661, a golden statue of Matsu was built at the Tamsui River in the northwest corner of Taipei city. It was burned by the Japanese in 1922 and rebuilt in situ. It was renamed as "Guandu Palace". In 1953, it was rebuilt in Daxing, so it has today's scale. The main hall of the temple is for Mazu, the left hall for Bodhisattva, and the right hall for Wenchang. In Guandu area, people believe in Mazu, and pray for Mazu's protection in weddings and funerals, disaster relief, and exorcism.

Development history

Guandu palace is located in Beitou District of Taipei city. It is the oldest Mazu temple in Northern Taiwan. It is a religious holy land for Buddhism and Taoism. Guandu palace is one of the three Mazu temples in Taiwan, and there is an endless stream of visitors from all over the country. Guandu palace, together with "Tianhou Palace" in Lukang and "Chaotian Palace" in Beigang, is known as the three Mazu temples in Taiwan. Founded in 1661, it was originally called Lingshan Temple because it was located at the top of Lingshan mountain. It was built three times in the 17th year of Jiaqing. The plaque "Guandu ancestral Palace" was rebuilt in 1921 in the 11th year of Taisho in Japan, and was renamed Guandu palace. The festival of Guandu palace is held on March 23 of the lunar calendar. The Lantern Festival and the Chinese New Year's day are also major events of the year. There are a lot of tourists and tourists. Guandu Palace also brings money to vendors.

"Guandu" is derived from Kantou, a language of the kaidagland nationality, while it is recorded as "casidor" in Spanish literature. In addition, due to different pronunciation languages, it has many other names, such as "Ganda", "Gandou", "Gandou", "Jianlong", "longdou" and "Guandu", which are basically transliterated from Pingpu nationality. It was not until the 25th year of Qianlong (1760) when "Taiwan Fu Zhi" was renewed that "Guandu" appeared; in the Japanese era, it was once renamed "Jiangtou", but it was restored to "Guandu" after the restoration, and is still in use today.

According to the annals of Zhuluo County, Guandu palace was founded in 1712, the 51st year of Kangxi. It is said that "Tianfei Temple: one is located in bangang street of waijiuzhuang. Thirty nine years ago, the residents built it together. One is in xianshuigang street. Fifty five years later, the residents built it together. A dried bean in fresh water. In 1951, the general service was built by Kejiu. " Guandu palace is the Mazu temple in the north of Tainan, which is second only to Chaotian Palace in Beigang in history. Lai Ke, who built the temple in jiuzhong, was the general officer in charge of the aborigines of the "big chicken cage society" (Keelung and the coastal areas of Northern Taiwan) in Northern Taiwan at that time. His authority was to collect rates and taxes from the aborigines on behalf of the government and direct them to engage in labor, so he was able to dispatch the aborigines to engage in the construction of Guandu palace. The Tianfei temple was founded and completed. Zhuluo county annals records its bustling situation, saying: "Lingshan Temple: it is located in Danshui gandoumen, in front of JUGANG, facing the East and West, and connecting the East and West, and the sea tide. In the 51st year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, the temple was built to worship the imperial concubines. On the day of its completion, all kinds of people gathered together. Suddenly thousands of giant fish came with the tide, like worshiping Li Ran. In a moment, the tide returns to the sea, people are called different Limited by the limited materials and social environment, only thatch was used as the roof and the construction was simply completed.

In the 51st year of Kangxi reign, Guandu temple was built. It was a time when Zheng, a foreign robber, devoted himself to peeping in the open sea of Tanshui. Guandu palace was located in the main entrance and exit of the Taipei basin. It was an important place for local residents to believe in. Zhuluo County, the official in charge, paid more attention to its information collection function and actively improved its hardware facilities. In 1715, the third year after the founding of Kangxi, it was rebuilt into a new building with wooden structure and tile roof. Zhou Zhongzhen, the county magistrate, not only traveled hundreds of kilometers from Jiayi, but also came to Taipei to inscribe "Lingshan" for the rebuilt Tianfei temple. He also granted the abbot Seng Mianyuan the right to invite tenants to reclaim land and collect rent, so that the temple could continue to operate forever.

Architectural features

Due to the long history of Guandu palace, the front of the main hall is covered with stone walls, and one side is covered with various historical stories. The stairs and guardrails on both sides are carved with similar stone relief, and the works are exquisite. The stone pillars in front of Guandu Palace are also carved with dragons, and the stone lions and wall carvings are even more spectacular. Entering the Guandu palace, there are rich sculptures and color paintings on the caisson, Dougong and rafters on the top of the palace It's art. Due to the flourishing of Guandu palace, Guandu palace has been continuously expanded, including the Notre Dame hall, Guanyin hall, Wenchang hall, ancient Buddha cave, Guangdu temple, Drum Tower, bell tower, etc.

Main attractions

The setting sun of Guandu palace is also an amazing sight. Climbing to the top of the mountain and overlooking the beautiful scenery of Guandu marshes and wetlands, you can confirm the well-known sunset of Guandu and win the reputation of one of the eight scenic spots in Taiwan. In addition, on the right side of Guandu palace is an ancient Buddha cave about 80 meters long. At the entrance, there is a Baojiu of Zhendong. Entering the cave, there are 28 King statues on both sides and thousands of hands behind Thousand eyes Guanyin Bodhisattva, her thousand hands and thousand eyes represent the universal salvation of all living beings. Walking on is the exit of the ancient Buddha cave. This kind of tour route is also a good itinerary for nearby scenic spots.

There are two obvious entrances in Danshui River Basin, Yuanshan and Guandu. The latter is located in the second chongshuikou, because the northeast and southwest datunshan rock strata (the volcanic body piled up by the eruption of datunshan volcano) trend straight into the Danshui River, the other end is Shizitou mountain of Guanyinshan system, its interface is just the connection position of Jinshan fault to southwest foot fault and Xinzhuang fault, and the horizontal deposit of the right basin falls on the Tertiary sedimentary rock of fold (belonging to the fault zone) The Danshui River passes through the fault rock and goes out to sea, leaving a special landscape of "Guandukou gate".

There is Zhonggang River in front of Guandu palace, which is formed by two tributaries of Guizikeng River and shuimokeng river. It is the main water source of Guandu Plain. However, the water conservancy facilities were insufficient in the early stage of reclamation, so it went through a period from wasteland to paddy field. Through the cooperation of villagers, many large ponds for irrigation appeared in Guandu area. Until the beginning of the 19th century, the whole Guandu Plain had baxianzhen, shuimokeng Zhen and other canals, which laid the foundation for the paddy landscape of Guandu Plain.

Among them, there is a drainage gate (sluice) on the left bank of Guandu palace, which was founded in 1952 and was called "Guandu drainage gate" at that time. The purpose of this equipment is to solve the tide problem in Guandu. Every time the tide rises and soaks, salt damage often occurs in more than 500 hectares of paddy fields in Guizikeng River and shuimokeng River (today's YIDELI and baxianli) upstream of Zhonggang River in Guandu. Especially in summer, the water can't be discharged smoothly due to accumulated water after the disaster. As a result, the rice in the fields has been soaked for a long time and the losses are serious. In order to solve the flood disaster, the equipment is put forward Build a sluice gate (three connected large drainage gate) which can prevent the river water from invading and overflowing at high tide.

Later, in order to solve the problem of flooding in the Taipei basin, the government carried out two projects: "widening the pass" and "straightening the Keelung River". However, due to the backward development, a large number of paddy fields were salinized, which completely changed the paddy field landscape of Han people in the past two or three hundred years. Under the interaction of Tanshui River, Keelung River and tidal phenomenon, Guandu Plain gradually formed a mixed wetland with the characteristics of riparian wetland, plain wetland and estuarine wetland, and also contributed to a rich and diverse biological system. However, when the farmers were unable to cultivate, they sold their fields to the garbage dumpers one after another, causing a great disaster for migratory birds and ecology. After strong public resistance, the Guandu Plain Nature Reserve was finally established in 1996, which is today's "Guandu Nature Park".

Because of the unique pass terrain, it not only shows in the changes of water flow and geological landscape, but also affects the characteristics of weather. Due to the temporary change of wind direction caused by the terrain, the ship can't cope with the situation, and the changeable river channel, ship capsizing often occurs. On the contrary, as far as geomantic omen is concerned, Guandu palace is located on the elephant trunk cave in the Datun mountains, where geomantic omen is excellent and fragrant, lasting for hundreds of years. Shuikou is an important landscape element in geomantic omen, which means the source of wealth and official career. Generally speaking, it can be divided into Tianmen and Dihu. Only when Tianmen is open and Dihu is closed, can Qi be gathered, thus making the source of wealth rolling and the number of people flourishing. After the relocation, the Guandu palace stands by the water, sits from northwest to Southeast, looks back at the Taipei basin, and is surrounded by water and gas.

Address: 360 Zhixing Road, Beitou District, Taipei

Longitude: 121.462319

Latitude: 25.120677

Tel. + 886-2-28581281

Transportation information: 1. MRT: take the Tanshui MRT to Guandu station, walk along the third section of Dadu Road, Lane 301 or Zhixing road for about 10-20 minutes.

2. Bus: take Danan bus 302, 223 and get off at Guandu palace.

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