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Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

By Huang Su-li, Lin Hsin-han and Jason Pan / Staff reportersRaces to place the first joss stick into the incense pot are returning to Taiwanese temples after disappearing during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the traditional event to take place on Lunar New Year’s Day.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

They came, they conquered and they governed. Japanese rule had a profound impact on Taiwan’s economic development and infrastructure. It’s hardly an exaggeration to say that, when it came to modernizing Taiwan, Tokyo did the heavy lifting. Despite the demolition and repurposing of numerous temples in the late 1930s, and the building of Shinto shrines, few Taiwanese embraced Japanese religions. That doesn’t mean, however, that Japan left no imprint on local beliefs. In at least a dozen of the 15,216 religious places of worship registered with local governments, a divine being of Japanese ...

2020/12/15 16:36 1,000 volunteers showed up in Chaozhou to help start a 1,200-ton temple on its way to a new site Tuesday. 1,000 volunteers showed up in Chaozhou to help start a 1,200-ton temple on its way to a new site Tuesday. (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A thousand volunteers showed up in the Pingtung County township of Chaozhou Tuesday (Dec. 15) to help pull the 1,200-ton Fuan Temple on its way to a new site 40 meters away. The authorities said the temple was standing in the middle of a projected road and should...