Baozhong Temple

Relatively well maintained and spacious area with a nearby park.

I really enjoyed my time here especially the back of the temple where one can enjoy a nature walk. It wasn’t overly crowded so I was able to roam freely. Things were well-kept. Definitely a gem in Hsinchu County.

Baozhongting Yimin Temple, also known as Xinpu Fangliao Baozhongyimin Temple, is a Yimin Temple located in Xialiao, Xinpu Town, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It was built due to the Lin Shuangwen incident. At the beginning, it was only a small temple for worshipping the heads of the four surnames. Gradually expanded, the rotation circle covers Taoyuan, Hsinchu, and became the richest Taiwanese temple during the Japanese rule. Today's buildings are listed as county monuments, and the sacrifices are registered as county intangible cultural assets and important national folk customs, and Liudui Zhongyi Pavilion is listed as the two major places of faith for the Hakka people in Taiwan. In the fifty-second year of Qianlong (1787), after the Lin Shuangwen incident was settled, Emperor Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty gave imperial plaques to the people of various nationalities in Taiwan. Quanzhou people received "Jingyi", Zhangzhou people received "Siyi", and Cantonese "Praise and loyalty" and "faithfulness" of familiarity are compared with the mocking and almost humiliating "sense and righteousness" plaques. The "loyalty" plaques obtained by the Cantonese ethnic group give the Cantonese righteous people a sacred status and ensure The legitimacy of faith. To build temples for the righteous people, Hakka, Minnan, and aboriginal people all have them, and most of them are Hakka homes. At that time, Wang Tingchang, one of the Hakka righteous chiefs, provided funds and commissioned Deng Wude and others to collect the remains of the righteous people, and together with Huang Zongwang, Lin Xiankun, and Wu Ligui, the other three Hakka righteous chiefs came forward to petition Fukangan for approval to build the temple. In November of the 53rd year of Qianlong Emperor (1788), the three brothers Dai Licheng, Caicheng, and Bacheng donated the old community land in Fangliao Village for the tombs and temples of the righteous people. The "Tong Li He Yi Zi" was established, and the land was donated. The condition is that after the temple is completed, it must enshrine the tablet of his father Dai Yuanjiu [. According to legend, the reason for choosing this place to build tombs and temples was that the ox carts that carried bones and buried them along the way were originally transported to Dawokou (now Hukou Township), but the cattle were not driven when they passed Fangliao. After burning incense and praying, they threw the ox cart. Bu Zhiyimin’s divine hope is buried here, and it is said that this place is called "Bong Niu's Crypt" in Feng Shui. The history of the establishment of the temple also quoted the ancient books in the Lin family of Hsinchu, which recorded the legend of ox carts carrying bones and ant colonies holding soil to build graves, but the academic circles believed that they were not credible. In addition, according to legend, people built the Yimin Temple in Miaoli City for the remains of the Yimin left in other places. Wanshan Temple in Hukou. Yuanlin Dizang Temple, built due to the death and injury of a weapon fight during Qianlong period, also has this kind of ox cart parked in its origin. In the winter of the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong (1788), the foundation was laid in front of the tomb. In the winter of the fifty-fifth year (1790), the main hall was completed, called the "Baozhong Pavilion." On the second day of February in the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong (1791), Wang Shangwu, who served as the temple blessing, was old and had no heir or relatives, so he invited Wang Tingchang, Huang Zongwang, Lin Xiankun, and Wu Ligui to witness in the temple and sign the "Tuoguzi", donated 380 yuan in public to fund the construction of the front hall and the horizontal house. In the winter of that year, Baozhong Pavilion was officially completed.

The sacrifice of righteous people is solemn and traditional

In the politically hyped temples, there is a surging crowd of righteous people every year. Other times the incense is deserted, and the deacons of the temple are not very friendly to the surrounding residents. There is a custom of eating sugar porridge during the festival, but the service staff has a very poor attitude towards tourists. In addition, the temple has a custom of racing pigs during the festival, which has also caused strong criticism from animal protection groups in recent years, but the temple seems to have no intention of changing it.