Cao Gong Temple / Ping Sheng Fort Introduction
The temple was built in memory of County Magistrate Cao Jing's contributions during the Daoguang period. On the south side of the square in front of the temple, 12 stone tablets from different eras are preserved, among which the "Cao Gong Zhun Ji," composed of four long granite inscriptions, is a memorial text submitted to the court when naming "Cao Gong Zhun" in the 19th year of Daoguang, praising Cao Jing's achievements. Behind the Cao Gong Temple is the Heisei Fort, with a wall embedded with a granite plaque that reads "Heisei." The initial momentum of guarding the city can still be faintly felt. To address the drought problem in Fengshan City, Magistrate Cao Jing constructed numerous irrigation projects using water from the Gaoping River during the Qing Daoguang period, greatly improving the irrigation of farmland in the Fengshan area at that time. Grateful for his contributions, the people of Fengshan built a shrine in honor of him, and in 1900, when Taiwan Governor General Kodama Gentarō inspected Fengshan, funding was raised to relocate it to its current site, which was upgraded to Cao Gong Temple in 1992. Heisei Fort is located behind Cao Gong Temple, approximately 5 meters high, square in shape, with stairs leading up from the inside. The front features an inscription on a granite plaque, and beside the characters "Heisei," it is engraved with "built by Cao Jing." The entire fort's structure is quite solid and robust.
