台南市關廟區龜洞福安堂

Strong traditional taste, solid rural human touch

Wishing, the master of Qingshui, Christmas

I went to find a friend to help me adjust things. My friend told me to go to live in his home for the time being.

This year is the second time to attend the Qingshui Patriarch Buddha ’s birthday, Deeply feel the constant enthusiasm of committee members and believers.

The main deity of Fu'an Hall is worshipped as the "Patriarch of Qingshui." Other deities are worshipped in the temple, such as Fude Zhengshen, Guanshiyin Bodhisattva, Marshal Tiandu, Marshal Zhongtan and so on. According to records in the inscription in the temple, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the ancestors who came from here brought the incense (or statues) of Qingshui Patriarch. There was no temple at first, and the statues were enshrined in the furnace owner’s home. And the incense is flourishing, and it has become the local faith center for more than two hundred years of worship. After the temple was built: The temple was first built in the 30th year of the Republic of China. It was built by believers with funds raised. After years of wind, rain and sun, the villagers initiated a proposal for reconstruction in the 1960s. Everyone worked together and contributed money. It started construction on the 26th of the first month of the lunar calendar in 1949. At the same time, a turtle cave activity center was built on the south side to facilitate the villagers as a place for leisure and entertainment. The followers of Fu'antang are mostly local people. They happen to be located in the school district of Chonghe Elementary School. According to today’s administrative divisions, it happens to be Guidong and the villages in Tianzhong. For Guidong Village, Fu'antang is them. Village temple. The religious activities of Fu'antang include the festival of the gods at Christmas and the millennium, the festival of the seasons, offering incense, and inviting water, etc.