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03-JUL-2016

Wen Wu Temple 文武廟, Nantou

The temple consists of three halls. The first hall located on the second floor of the front hall is a shrine devoted to the First Ancestor Kaiji and the God of Literature. The central hall is devoted to Guan Gong, the God of War and the warrior-God Yue Fei. The rear hall is dedicated to Confucius. Chinese guardian lions are located in front of the temple, in which one is male and another is female. However, no lions were found for Wen Wu Temples in Mainland China. The two vermillion stone lions on the two sides of the front plaza. They were donated by Wu Huo-shih, the late chairman of the Shin Kong Life Insurance Company, whose name meant "fire lion."

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