Kanshi Tahe Temple Introduction
Before the Han Chinese began to cultivate the area, the Kuanxi region was inhabited by indigenous people. The cultivation in the Kuanxi district began in the fifty-eighth year of the Qianlong reign (1793) by Chen Zhiren from Quanzhou, who formed the "Lianji Sheng" cultivation group, at that time the Kuanxi area was known as "Meili Village." Later, due to attacks from the Tayan tribe, the Lianji Sheng group abandoned the cultivation work during the Jiaqing period, which was then taken over by Wei Aguai. After Wei Aguai took over the cultivation work, he established a public granary during the Jiaqing period as a place for tax collection and renamed the area "Xinxing Village." In the twenty-fifth year of Jiaqing (1820), Wei Aguai's five sons formed the "Wei Shou Zong" group to succeed Wei Aguai's position as cultivators, and in the third year of Daoguang (1823) renamed "Xinxing Village" to "Pickled Vegetable Pot," which was later elegantly referred to as "Pickled Vegetable Phoenix" or "Pickled Vegetable Bin," ultimately settling on the name "Pickled Vegetable Bin." The Kuanxi Taihe Temple, also known as the Sanjie Temple, is mainly dedicated to the worship of the Three Officials, and was founded around the seventeenth year of the Jiaqing reign (1812) by the cultivator Wei Aguai at its original site in Fuxing Village. During the Tongzhi period, Huang Taishan and Huang Taigui among others initiated its reconstruction, relocating it to the vicinity of the present Kuanxi substation, but it was occupied by the Zhubei Second Fort office during the early Japanese colonial period and later was burned down by the Japanese. In the thirty-third year of Meiji (1900), Luo Biyu, Chen Chunlong, and others initiated its new construction, relocating it to the front of the current site and renamed it Taihe Temple. In the fourth year of Showa (1929), Luo Biyu, Huang Deyang, and others once again initiated its relocation to the present site, which was officially completed in the sixth year of Showa. In the fifty-eighth year of the Republic of China, the temple underwent repairs, becoming the appearance we see today.
