Eighteen Lords (Shihba Wanggong) Temple
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Situated upon the cape at the entrance of the Port of Kaohsiung, the temple is a traditional Hokkien-style building.There are steep stairs in front of the temple, which are said to test the devotion of the followers.
According to the stone inscription inside the temple, there were 18 Chinese merchants landed ashore at today’s Sizihwan Bay during the ruling of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.They were here for land reclamation but treated as rebels and executed.To commemorate the spirit of the 18 ancestors, the nearby residents collected all the remains of the dead to the temple for worship.This was the origin of the Lords’ Temple.
In the Japanese Occupation, the Japanese excavated the current Sizihwan cave for the reclamation of the Port of Kaohsiung.Construction failures occurred unexpectedly and many died in the accident.The project was not successful until the Japanese government took the suggestion of the locals to worship the eighteen lords for protection.The earliest Eighteen Lords Temple was built on where the current playground of the National Sun Yat-sen University (NSY) is located.The establishment of the NSY University has forced the temple to relocate in 1984 to the current site up the cape.Today the temple is crowded with visitors as the number of night visitors to the Sizihwan Bay is increasing.
Sizihwan Bay is a well-known Kaohsiung tourist spot.To the right of the entrance of Sizihwan, there i...
Sizihwan Bay is a well-known Kaohsiung tourist spot. To the right of the entrance of Sizihwan, ...
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Asia is the biggest continent on Earth, a darling little gem floating around in space.
Hm, what is Asia? Who's in on it?
China and India are safe bets for Asian nations. Korea, Japan, Thailand, you're fine.
Europe? No. Europe would sort of be on the "Asian continent" if not for those pesky Ural mountains dividing things up in the middle, and then also the whole lineage of kings and wealth and nations and the EU and all that "give me my respect" stuff.
Russia would probably be happiest as its own continent, so for now we'll leave it in "Eurasia" and just hope the natural gas supplies keep flowing.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are dang close to Asia, but politically they show up in "Middle East" news stories an awful lot. Verdict: Eurasia.
I guess we'll actually have to consider everything from Turkey on eastward to be "Eurasian", although the moniker seems overlappitory of the territory.
The Asian economy is now officially raging like a wild furnace of lava that consumes everything in its path. Japan has had the largest individual economy in Asia for decades, but it is forecast that both India and China will outstrip Japan within twenty years.
China is the largest holder of United States debt and is positioned to become the world's next superpower, provided that Godzilla doesn't return and decide to stomp everybody back into the Shang Dynasty.
Text by Steve Smith.
