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Siang He elementary school (2004 CyberFair Project ID 3172)
Taiwan,
Chiayi
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 6. Historical Landmarks
We estimate 9 student(s) from 12 to 13 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: I-Lan County is located in northeast area of Taiwan, facing eastward the immense Pacific Ocean, and separating northward, southward and westward by the Snow Mountains and the Central Mountains. From the ancient times, it had always been a dreaming pure land isolated from the external lands. The original name of I-Lan was Ge-Ma-Lan (also named as "La-a-tan", means the shoals of oysters), which was transliterated from the aboriginals Ge-Ma-Lan people. After the common judge of Ching Dynasty, Wu Zhu-Fang, chose “the Eight Scenes of Lan-Yang” in I-Lan, later generations the Han people started to call this place the nickname, "Lan-Yang."
Project Description: "Bi Xia Temple" is also known as "Yue-Wu-Mu-Wang Temple," which is located in the Cheng-Huang (the city god) street in I-Lan County. This temple was built in the twenty second year of Guang-Xu of Ching Dynasty (also the year 1896 A.D.) and it has lasted for one hundred years up to today. The building of this temple was originated in the second year of Taiwan under Japanese colonization. At that time, many learned people in I-Lan had felt the shame of being reigned by foreigners and received an oracle by means of coseino mancy when they planned to go back to Mainland China, "Need not return to hometown, it is of the first importance to exalt people’s senses of loyalty, filial piety and moral integrity in order to move and inspire their minds." Therefore, with the scholar "Yang-Shi-Fang" as the head, they constructed a temple for enshrining Yue-Fei and advocated his loyalty and filial piety to arouse countrymen’s patriotism. Then, in order to avoid Japanese’s notice, they circuitously nominated this temple as "Bi Xia Temple" according to the meaning of the sentence---"Expecting the glory at dawn with bluish blood and loyal heart." Hence, the original meaning of building Bi Xia Temple is not only to show people’s appreciation for respecting the deity, but also to spread out the ethnical significance of our ancestors’ faithful mind toward the fatherland.