Songshan Fengtian Temple

This guide to Songshan Fengtian Temple in Taipei traces a Jade Emperor shrine carved into a cave on Tiger Mountain back to the eighteen sixties, and to Japan's colonial government banning local worship and turning that same cave into an air raid shelter. You'll hear how two elders, Wen Jinbo and Liu Yonghao, rebuilt the faith from a bamboo structure in nineteen fifty-three, and how a second congregation carrying the Five Year Kings later merged with it. Look for the dragons coiling up the entrance pillars.