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The Grand Matsu Temple in Tainan's West Central District began as the palace of the Ming prince Zhu Shugui, built in 1664. After the Qing conquest it became in 1684 the first temple to honour the sea goddess Mazu as Empress of Heaven; its present halls date largely from 1775, and the rear hall honours Mazu's parents.
The Koxinga Ancestral Shrine is the family temple that Zheng Jing built in 1663 in Tainan to honour his father Koxinga, the Ming loyalist who drove the Dutch from Taiwan. The modest brick complex of three halls holds a statue of Koxinga and tablets of the Zheng ancestors; the well in front of the gate survives from the original shrine.
The State Temple of the Martial God, also called the Grand Guandi Temple, stands just south of Chihkan Tower in Tainan and is dedicated to Guan Yu, the deified general of the Three Kingdoms. It grew from a shrine of the Zheng era in the 1660s, took its present layout in 1690 and in 1727 was granted official spring and autumn rites; its long red gable wall lines Yongfu Road.
The Tainan Confucian Temple on Nanmen Road was founded in 1665 by Chen Yonghua under the Kingdom of Tungning as Taiwan's first school, known as the First Academy of Taiwan. Its red-walled courtyards set the temple, with the Dacheng Hall and its Qing imperial plaques, beside the Minglun Hall of the old academy, among banyan trees.
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