Bangka Qingshan Temple

This guide to Bangka Qingshan Temple in Taipei opens in 1904 with something pulled from the sleeve of a wooden statue, and traces why that discovery still fills the street with a roaring night parade every autumn. It reaches back to 1854, when fishermen from Fujian carried the effigy across the strait into a neighborhood battling disease, and to the moment they decided the god wanted to stay put. The statue's backstory reaches back further still, to a general from the ancient Kingdom of Wu.