Kanshi Taihe Temple Introduction
Before the Han people settled in the Kuan-Hsi area, it was inhabited by indigenous peoples. The development of the Kuan-Hsi district began around the fifty-eighth year of Qianlong (1793) when Chen Zhiren from Quanzhou established the "Lianji Sheng" settlement, at that time known as "Meili Zhuang." Later, the Lianji Sheng settlement was abandoned during the Jiaqing period due to attacks from the Atayal people, and the land development was taken over by Wei A-Gui. After taking over the development work, Wei A-Gui established a public granary during Jiaqing, renaming the area to "Xinxing Zhuang." In the twenty-fifth year of Jiaqing (1820), Wei A-Gui's five sons formed the "Weishou Zong" association to continue their father's land development role and renamed "Xinxing Zhuang" to "Xian Cai Weng" in the third year of Daoguang (1823), which was later elegantly named "Xian Cai Feng" or "Xian Cai Peng," and ultimately the name "Xian Cai Peng" was adopted. Kuan-Hsi Taihe Temple, also known as the Sanjie Temple, is dedicated to the Three Officials and was founded around the seventeenth year of Jiaqing (1812) by the then settler Wei A-Gui, originally located in Fuxing Zhuang. During the Tongzhi period, it was renovated by Huang Tai-San, Huang Tai-Gui, and others, moving to its present location near the Kuan-Hsi police station. It was occupied by the Japanese as the Zhubei Second Fortress Affairs Office in the early days of the Japanese occupation and was later burned down. In the thirty-third year of Meiji (1900), Luo Biyu, Chen Chunlong, and others initiated reconstruction, relocating to the front of the current site and renaming it to Taihe Temple. In the fourth year of Showa (1929), Luo Biyu, Huang Deyang, and others initiated the move to the current site, which was officially completed in the sixth year of Showa. In the fifty-eighth year of the Republic of China, the temple was repaired and took on the appearance seen today.
