What is Bogong Temple?

Bogong Temple, the land temple, is a folk temple dedicated to the land god in China. Most of them are spontaneous small buildings, which belong to the most widely distributed sacrificial buildings and are distributed in rural areas.

Because the deity of the earth temple is not high, and it is a grass-roots belief, most of them are simple in shape. A humble person can build a land temple under a tree or by the roadside with two stones as the wall and one stone as the top, commonly known as the "thunder" type land temple. There are also small temples built of cement or bricks. At present, there are even factories in Taiwan Province Province that use cement pouring to open molds for mass production. There are also land temples that have gradually become large and medium-sized because of the heyday of incense.

In Taiwan Province Province, the land god has the ability to be a god of wealth, and businessmen will worship the land god on the 2nd and 16th of each month in the lunar calendar, which is called "tooth-making". Throughout Taiwan Province Province, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to landlords. On the other hand. In the cemetery of Taiwan Province Province, there is a "Earth Monument" or a statue of the land god offering sacrifices. In addition, there will be large-scale land temples in many areas, such as Jingfu Palace in Taipei, and the land temple in Hongyudi, Zhonghe City, Taipei County.