Longshan temple the intersection of Shanghai and the intersection of tail and the intersection of Quanzhou and for worship Mazu, Buddha of Goddess of Mercy, Ann in Huanglong waits for someone to raise money to gather the money three the people, street of city, it is surnamed offered that the military honour is big, build ( 1858) in the eighth year of Xianfeng in Qing dynasty ,Set up Jinjiang sea Longshan temple, divide into fairy to come to Taiwan, thus come the name of Longshan temple.
Except mainly offering sacrifices to Goddess of Mercy, are worthy of offering sacrifices to Mazu and note and giving birth to the empress. This temple is towering in architecture, especially the stone carving, woodcut, supernatural s statue are the most exquisite, especially the law of Goddess of Mercy looks like solemnly, romantic charm is outstanding.
Although does not reply the elegance in the past while going to the century-old building, stone lion, tiger s window, Chinese unicorn in front of the temple stop up etc. considerably, especially the intersection of stone carving and the intersection of dragon and column under temple, model examine, hold back vividly, deserve detailed detailed end award.
At the time of Guang Xu s Sino-French wars that it is said, Goddess of Mercy made its presence or power felt and cheered too, was once resisted the horizontal inscribed board of book the barge of mercy ferries all the miserable people to the world of bliss . It have square early years ago, after garden,there are fresh water representative fair too on nearby, and there are old men to assemble and make tea and begin lecturing even more in the front hall, can be regarded as Buddha famous historical site in the border of fresh water.
Only manage improperly for a time in recent years the elegance is lost big, but still rare and ancient, after the renovation in the 70th year of the Republic of China, had already replied the former appearance slightly, was classified as the tertiary historic site in 74. The first place of Taibei.
