玄德宮-北極玄天上帝

Wish Xuantian God's Birthday Putian Tongqing Guotai Minan

The solemn temple~

Establishment history: The village was formerly known as Duck Mother. It is said that the three surnames of Lu, Cai, and Zhang lived here. At the beginning, they raised ducks for a living, and gradually gathered into tribes to form a village, so it was called Duck Mother. Lizhuang. After the war, it was changed to Wenlong Village. In the early stage of the village, it was worshipped by Fude Zhengshen. Later, Guanyin Ma was added to build a soil knot temple called Guanyin Ma Temple. In the early days of Tongzhi (about a hundred years ago), the Zhuang people went to Niu Chouxi to receive the god Xuantian incense and worship. The Lord God is majestic and inspired, and believers are quite faithful. They worship God as their main worship. As for the four generals of the Big Dipper, it is time for Lu Kaiji to bring the golden body from Tanaka to his house about a hundred years ago. Very prominent. According to rumours, some believers can find out if they throw away their money and ask God. If there are strange and difficult patients, they still ask the four generals. Attracting believers to gather, Zhuang Zhong welcomes them into the Xuande Palace for worship. Every April 19th, every family will kill chickens and ducks, and prepare a lot of sacrifices. In the early days of the earth-knot temple, after the earthquake in the 39th year of Meiji (1906), it collapsed, and Shi Baozheng initiated the reconstruction of the wooden temple. At the beginning of the Japanese occupation, in the forty-two year of the Meiji era (1939), the temple fell into disrepair for years and the building was eroded by termites. Shi Baozheng Lu Rending proposed to sell it on the public land of the Sanjie Guild at that time. The money was converted into a brick belly wall. Later, due to insufficient funds After the war, in the thirty-sixth year of the Republic of China (1947), Liu Wande continued to preside over the completion of the brick temple and renamed it Xuande Pavilion. At that time, the construction committee was established and Liu Wande was elected as the chairman, member and accountant. Lu Wenzan, member Lu Bang and neighbors. In the fifty-first year of the Republic of China (1962), the current village mayor Xu Yundong initiated a three-match grant, added a suggestion hall, and used it as the worship pavilion of the temple. Note: Excerpted from "Chiayi County Chronicles. Volume nine. Religious History. The second part. Chapter Six. Section 5. Page 117