San Chung Temple Introduction
San Chong Temple, also known as San Gong Temple, is located on Chang'an Street in Shuangxi Village, New Taipei City. It is a temple dedicated to the deities of three loyal ministers from the late Southern Song dynasty: Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu, and Zhang Shijie. In the 46th year of the Qianlong reign of the Qing dynasty (1781 AD), Lian Yuanqiao, a local from Jiangdu Township in Changtai County, Fujian Province, led a group of people to cross the sea to Taiwan, bringing with them a statue of Wen Tianxiang. After traversing mountains and valleys, they arrived in Shuangxi, where they found the area to be a wilderness, yet beautiful and scenic, prompting them to settle down, engage in land cultivation, and build thatch houses for worship. These immigrants, although not escaping from war, carried a strong Han spirit of restoring the Ming dynasty against the Qing dynasty. Having left their homeland and traveled across the ocean, they inevitably felt a sense of emptiness and solitude, placing their spiritual reliance on divine protection to seek peace and comfort.
