ABSTRACT
The temple at the centre of the festivals of Shiding that Stephan saw between 1966 and 1968 had been built twenty years before. It was a handsome and simple building of stone walls and an elegant roof of grey tiles, making up half of a raised colonnade of single-storey buildings (see Illustration 6.1). The colonnade was the northern side of what had once been the town’s market square. Behind it was a small garden above a stream, close to the point where the stream ran into a small river that had once been navigable by small boats to Taipei city. Inside, the temple was divided into two halls, separated by an open court. Jishun temple, Shiding, 1967 https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315011622/6724cb91-c32d-4520-8f44-6713f42e6729/content/fig6_1_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> (Photo Stephan Feuchtwang)
