In the 13th year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1874), due to the Peony Society incident, the Qing court sent Shen Baozhen, an imperial envoy of Fujian Ship Administration, to Taiwan Province. After Shen Baozhen came to Taiwan, he accepted the request of Taiwan Province scholars Yang Shifang, Taiwan Province Xia Xianlun and Taiwan Province Magistrate Zhou, and joined forces with Fujian Governor Wang Kaitai and Fujian General to pay tribute to them, and set up a special shrine to compile a festival. In the first year of Guangxu (1875), on the tenth day of the first month, the Qing court allowed it to be played, and the letters were as follows:
"During the Kangxi period, Zhu Chenggong was ordered to build a shrine in Nan 'an in the former Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the princes are honest and upright. Pray for floods and droughts, especially in Gongtai County. According to the request, please set up a special shrine in Fucheng, Taiwan Province Province, and pursue it, so as to comply with public opinion and respect its interests. "
With the approval of the imperial court, construction started in March of the same year and was completed in autumn and August. The project cost 7,400 taels of silver and was built by Fuzhou master. The materials are all from Fuzhou, which makes it a Fuzhou-style building.
During the Japanese occupation period, because Zheng Chenggong was a descendant of the Japanese, he was respected by the Japanese, and because Zheng Chenggong was related to Japan, the King's Temple in Yanping County was preserved and renamed the Kaishan Shrine in July of the 29th year of Meiji (1896). In the 30th year of Meiji (1897), it was listed as a county council in June of the same year. Later, Japanese-style worship halls and torii were built, but the original Fuzhou style was still maintained [1]. The front hall is dedicated, and the back hall is dedicated to its mother field. Every year in the third month of the lunar calendar, believers will also invite the statue of the holy king who opened the stage to make sedan chairs for parades around the country. In August of the third year of Dazheng (19 14), the Kaishan Temple was rebuilt on a large scale, the original building was preserved, and the necessary ancillary facilities (Shensuo, Shoushui Society, Shenle Hall, Social Affairs Office and dormitory) were added. After the reconstruction, the main hall and some halls of Kaishan Temple are still traditional buildings in China, while the worship hall is changed to Japanese style with a Tang style.
Kaishan Shrine is the first shrine built by the Japanese after they arrived in Taiwan Province. After the war, the National Government demolished the original Fuzhou-style building and converted it into a reinforced concrete China North-style building. At present, except for the sedan chair that existed at that time, there is no trace of the shrine era in the appearance of the building. At present, there is a memorial archway of the emblem of the Kuomintang in China, which was moved from torii, a shrine in Tainan.
After World War II, the temple was rebuilt in 36 years of the Republic of China (1947), and was designated as a historical site of Taiwan Province Province by the Taiwan provincial government six years later. However, in the reconstruction in 52 years of the Republic of China (1963), the temple was converted into a reinforced concrete China North-style building, so it was not listed as a monument later. It was not until1July 2, 9991(2010) that the temple was designated as the ninth historical building in Tainan. Today, the Dawang Temple in Yanping County is basically composed of the temple itself, gardens and Zheng Chenggong Cultural Relics Museum. The main entrance is located on the mountain road, which was originally surrounded by a wall, but it has been destroyed, leaving only the main entrance and a part facing the temple gate (as a shadow wall).
There is a memorial archway in front of the temple, which used to be torii in Japanese times, but it was rebuilt after the war, and the top beam was removed and attached to party emblem, the Kuomintang of China. The main body of the temple is a three-in-one courtyard, which faces east from east to west and consists of a mountain gate, a main hall, a back hall and two wings. On the left side of the mountain gate, there is a corridor connected with "General Gan Hui Temple". There is a garden in front of the temple, which goes to the north. From the temple to the west, there is the East Temple, where the memorial tablets of civil and military officials who died in the Ming and Zheng Dynasties are enshrined, and the altar of sacrifice is also located here. On the right side of the gate is the temple of General Zhang Wanli. There is also a garden facing south in front of the temple. From the temple to the west, there is a memorial tablet for ministers, and the ceremonial place is also located here.
Daxiong Hall is a place dedicated to Zheng Chenggong, surrounded by cloisters and a stone-washing temple with a statue of Zheng Chenggong by sculptor Yang Yingfeng. However, after the transformation, the response was great. In addition, in front of the statue is the golden body of the statue in the front hall, which was once offered in turn among the people until it was welcomed back to its seat.
In the middle of the back hall, there is a toffee hall, which is dedicated to the toffee field, the mother, according to the temple practice. On the left of Taifei Temple is the Temple of Quiet King, which is dedicated to the Ming Dynasty King Quiet and his five concubines, and on the right is Zheng Chenggong's grandson Zheng Ke? And his wife, Chen Miao State Supervisor. In addition, there is a Gu Mei in the courtyard in front of the Toffee Temple, which is said to have been planted by Zheng Chenggong himself. Plum was originally grown in Hongzhi Garden of Taiwan Province government, that is, Chengtian government of Ming Dynasty, and was transplanted here from Hongzhi Garden in the first year of Guangxu (1875).