Zhinan Temple
Mountainside Taoist sanctuary reached by a legendary thousand-step stone stairway above tea fields.
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This guide to Zhinan Temple in Taipei opens with a local rule taxi drivers pass along: never bring a partner up this mountain. It traces the legend behind that warning, about the Taoist immortal Lu Dongbin's rejection by fellow immortal He Xiangu, and why couples still avoid this particular hillside. Gold miners funded the temple's oldest hall, the Chunyang Chapel, back in 1890.
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