The wooden structure of the temple is partly built in the Ming Dynasty, partly in the Qing Dynasty and modern times. The temple is a raised beam wooden frame building with a face of three questions and a depth of six rooms. Total length of 40 meters, 17 meters wide, an area of more than 680 square meters. Hanging roof, green tile. Mostly stone pike columns, column base drum-shaped. In front of the temple there is a large square, stone carving railings, stacked between them, lotus pool in the field, green water full of waves reflecting the ancient temple. In front of the temple there are four pairs of carved stone lions in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Head high and mighty, the spirit of each different. Temple building with six round stone columns topped by hundreds of criss-crossed, bearing the force of the arch, the arch holds a palace-style pavilion, called "Prince Pavilion". Pavilion on a variety of southern Fujian local characteristics of porcelain carving patterns, the front is the "Eight Immortals" and "beasts" (unicorns, elephants, lions, tigers, deer, sheep, mules, jackals). The back of the sculpture in the Tang and Song storyline of 120 portraits, vivid, colorful, look around, majestic, "Prince Pavilion" is not only superb architectural art, and has a high architectural scientific value, it has experienced 500 years of major earthquakes and big typhoons are still unharmed, won the Chinese and foreign experts in ancient architecture sighed.
The main hall, the ridge of the front hall are molded with "double dragons to grab the pearl" and "phoenix flying" porcelain carving.
The temple's gold and wood carvings are even more skillful, brilliant. The main hall of the abrasive green stone on the big ah, carving a rare national dragon, spitting beads, lofty horns, these golden stone carvings, are out of successive generations of masters of the finest treasures. In the center of the main hall is the statue and shrine of Guan Gong, flanked by four generals, the right is Zhou Cang. Inside the temple, there are many stone and wooden couplets and plaques from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Inside the temple, there are many stone and wooden couplets and plaques from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The east side of the main hall hangs a 1.2 meters high, the bottom length of 2.15 meters, weighing more than 400 pounds of the Qing dynasty during the casting of the Daoguang copper bell, the sound is loud and clear, the entire layout of the temple in a neat and orderly manner, the spirit of the extraordinary.
Historical origin
It has been verified that Dongshan Guan Di Temple is the ancestral temple of many Guan Di Temples in Taiwan, which has a long historical relationship.
Ming Yongli 18 years (1663) Zheng Chenggong's son Zheng Jing withdrew from Tongshan back to Taiwan, Ningjing King Zhu Jugui specially in the royal residence built from Tongling Guan Di Temple sub-spirit over Taiwan Guan Di Temple, the temple is modeled on the form of the Tongling Guan Di Temple construction, the shrine hangs a piece of Qing dynasty in 54 years (1289) the House Governor Yang Yanli dedicated imitation of the Ming Wuying Hall university professor Huang Daozhou for the Tongling Guan Di Temple written couplets, the temple is the first of its kind, and it is the first of its kind in Taiwan, and it is the first of its kind in Taiwan. According to Penghu Hongmao Cheng Guan Di Temple Management Committee Mr. Wang Jingfang introduction: Hongmao Cheng Guan Di Temple as early as in the Ming Dynasty from Tongling Guan Di Temple into Penghu, and then from Penghu into Taiwan, spread in southern Taiwan, called "Wenheng Di Jun".
After Shi Lang, the governor of the navy of the Qing Dynasty, led the division to restore Taiwan in 1683, the officers and soldiers distributed the incense of Tongling Guandi Temple to Taiwan.
During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Lin Feng, a native of Pinghe County, Zhangzhou, returned home from the Guan Di Temple in Dongshan and sculpted a statue of Guan Di. Later, Lin Feng's descendants Lin Yingshi and others went to Tongling Guan Di Temple in person to distribute the spirit, crossed the sea to Taiwan Kavalan (now Yilan) to build a temple called Xietian Temple, which became the earliest temple in the northern part of Taiwan and spread the construction of Guan Di Temples all over Taiwan.
Taiwan Guan Di Temple, many of the Dongshan people to build. Such as in the Kangxi 52 years to 54 years, Tongshan people who served as the left battalion of Taiwan's naval division guanyou Chonggong in Zhuluo County, the northeast corner of the construction of Guan Di Temple. In the Qing Dynasty, there were some Guan Di temples built in Penghu, Taiwan by the master of Dongshan, Lan Mu. Republic of China 23 years (1933). Dongshan County, Kangmei Village, construction master Lin Jinjin, Lin Jintian, Lin Baozong three people were hired to Penghu, Magong, Chi embedded, small volume and Taipei, lived for three years built four and Tongling Guan-Di Temple of the same style of Guan-Di Temple.
Taiwanese compatriots on the East Mountain Guan Di Temple is very revered, often come to the pilgrimage donations. Dongshan Guan-Di Temple in the "rebuild the temple monument" recorded Taiwan Anping, Penghu, Lugang and other places more than 40 military, political, business, fishing preparations for the donation of the name and amount of people.
Cultural exchanges
In recent years, Taiwan Yilan, Kaohsiung, Hualien, Hsinchu, Taipei, Taichung, Taitung, Taoyuan, Keelung, Penghu and other parts of the province, such as Guan-Di Temple believers have organized a group of pilgrimage to visit the ancestors of the Temple of Guan-Di in Tongling, and Guan-Di cultural exchanges, dedicating the "origin of the ancestral ancestral visit" plaques and Feng to Guan-Di Mrs. Guan like to Taiwan.