The Event Background of Chengtian Temple Incident

Chengtian Temple was built in the reign of Zhou Xiande after the Five Dynasties. The whole temple covers an area of more than 70 mu and is known as "Jiasha in southern Fujian". According to legend, Wang Yanbin, the secretariat of Quanzhou, donated thousands of hectares of land to Zhaoqing Courtyard. After Zhaoqing Courtyard was abolished, the land was returned to Chengtian Temple, and monks praised morality and built a shrine to worship it, which was called "Tan Yue Wang Gong Temple" (Tan Yue Sanskrit, meaning donor).

This ancestral hall is a memorial hall built by the monks of Chengtian Temple to commemorate the benefactor Wang Gong, and it is a part of the temple complex, not the Wang ancestral hall, ancestral hall or family temple.

Tan Yue Temple has been built in many temples in China, such as Fujian Wang Temple in Yongquan Temple in Fuzhou, Chen Taifu Temple in Nanshan Temple in Zhangzhou and Huang Shougong Temple in Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou.

During the Cultural Revolution, temples including ancestral halls were severely damaged. During the reconstruction of Chengtian Temple in 1980s, the temple also raised funds to maintain and rebuild the temple, and Wang's descendants spared no effort in the reconstruction. On the basis of adhering to history, the temple and the descendants of Prince Tan Yue have always respected each other and treated each other with courtesy, and their relationship is very harmonious.

After the temple was rebuilt, the abbot invited the Wangs to help manage the Wang Gong Temple because there were too few monks and insufficient manpower.