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The city of Longtan also stepped on the triangle and was burned by gunfire. When the army saw the army, it was destroyed by the whole army. Hu Jialu decided to split the road into Yangmei and the copper ring. However, in order to smoothly escape the insurance, they immediately requested to voluntarily break the latter. As a result, 73 people immediately formed the post-discontinuation force. The brigade successfully removed the difficulties and joined the Wu Tangxing troops to continue the anti-Japanese great cause. Afterwards, the villagers buried the heroic 73 people in one place. In the year, the villagers raised funds to build the temple and named it the Zhongyi Seventy-three Public Temple.

The 73rd Gongzhongyi Temple is dedicated to the 73 Hakka volunteers who died in the Yiwei War. In July 1895, Japanese Major General Nobunari Yamane led his army to attack Longtan. Hu Jiayou, the leader of the volunteers, resisted. The Battle of Anping Town and the Battle of Longtanbei took place. Later, the rebels were lost and transferred to the Guanxi and Xinpu areas. Seventy-five people including Wei Asheng were arrested and executed by the Japanese in Zhuwozi, Longtan. At that time, the deceased had names available for examination, there were a total of sixty-six members, and the names of seven were unknown. Only Huang Renyi was seriously wounded and pretended to be dead, and the Japanese army left the youngest Hu Yushan to bury the remains. According to the 2011 Autumn Festival report, Peng Lilin, the chairman of the Lingyun Village Community Development Association, stated that the deaths were less than thirty on average, and the offspring fled to various places. So far, only 33 offspring have been traced. Their widows fled to the woods near the current Shimen Reservoir. In order to prevent the aborigines of Taiwan from hunting for their heads, they had to strangle the babies to avoid crying and leaking their whereabouts to keep everyone safe. Lu Jinhuang, in his 60s, said his grandfather fled to Shenmu Village, Nantou County, and settled in Shenmu Village, Nantou County; 57-year-old Huang Qingshun reported that his great-grandfather Huang Shuifeng was one of 73 grandfathers, and his grandfather fled to Taitung to work as a child worker with the adults in the same village. In the early 1970s, local people initiated the reconstruction of the tombs of the rebels. In 1973, Wu Xiang, the representative of the villagers, rebuilt the 73rd Gongzhonglie Pagoda, and the temple body was completed on June 6, 1983. The temple is located in Lane 133, Shengting Road. During the autumn ceremony in 2002, Xu Yushu, vice chairman of the township representative committee, and Cai Daxiong, the township representative, discovered that the tombstone behind the temple had been eroded by weathering. During the spring ceremony in 2016, Taoyuan Mayor Zheng Wencan saw the stone monument Only the word "Kao" could be seen on the site, so he planned to repair it. He promised to ask the Hakka Affairs Bureau of Taoyuan City Government to repair it and assist the Zhongyi Temple in organizing related activities. Every year, the Spring Festival for the Youth Day on March 29th in the Chinese calendar and the Autumn Festival on October 25th for Taiwan’s Liberation Day were later changed to the last Sunday in March and October in line with the holidays. During the Spring Festival on March 29, the temple will also hold a capon competition. When reported in 2011, it was the only temple in the Longtan Township Office that budgeted for the ancestor worship ceremony.

After reading the Taiwanese trilogy by Mr. Zhong, I learned that Longtan had such a group of heroes who sacrificed desperately to defend their homeland. It is a pity that Taiwan’s historical and cultural preservation seems to be quite neglected. It seems that there is a lack of funds to maintain it, and there is no narrative inscription that should be seen. If even the efforts of telling stories to let the public understand the pain that this land has gone through are No, how can you be worthy of these ancestors who guarded their homes? When facing the huge and complex issues of internationalization and cross-strait relations, the most important thing for Taiwanese people to understand is the past of their hometown and the pain and suffering that this land has endured. Only in this way can we truly know ourselves...

Article 4819 [Taoyuan Longtan] Zhongyi Temple / Seventy-three Gong / God of Fortune / God of Society / Battle of Anping Town X Taiwan Shih Trip｜Taoyuan Longtan Zhongyi Temple X Taiwan ShihTrip

To commemorate the anti-Japanese people who died in the bamboo nest of Longtan, the main hall is a tablet for seventy-three people, a tablet for the god of blessing on the right hall, and a tablet for gods of the god of the left hall.