Lin Fung Temple

This guide to Lin Fung Temple in Macau centers on September eighteen thirty-nine, when Qing official Lin Zexu arrived at this courtyard not to pray but to deliver an ultimatum to Portuguese Macau, fresh off destroying twenty thousand chests of British opium in Canton. It follows the pressure he put on the Portuguese to expel British merchants sheltering in the city, and where those merchants ended up once they were pushed out. It also traces what became of Lin himself in the eyes of his own emperor. The temple's three-meter statue and its nineteen ninety-seven memorial hall mark how the story is remembered here.