Zheng Chenggong Temple

Zheng Chenggong Temple

Zheng Chenggong Temple is a cultural tourism attraction.

Zheng Chenggong Temple is located south of Changhua’s Nanyao Temple. The temple’s exterior architecture is strikingly vibrant and distinctive, setting it apart from conventional temples. It stands as a noble symbol honoring a national hero. During the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong was known as Prince of Yanping, and later revered as the Sacred King Who Opened Taiwan, hence the temple is also called the Sacred King Who Opened Taiwan Temple.

Zheng Chenggong, originally named Sen and childhood name Fusu, with the courtesy name Damu and pseudonym Mingyan, was a native of Shijing in Nan’an. He was born on July 14, 1624, in Hirado, Nagasaki (present-day Senrigahama, Hirado City), Japan. His father was Zheng Zhilong, and his mother was the daughter of the Tagawa family from Hirado, Nagasaki, Japan. In the third year of the Chongzhen era of the Ming Dynasty (1630), at the age of 7, Zheng Chenggong returned from Japan to Anping (now Anhai Town in Jinjiang) to study, where he was named Sen.

At the age of 11, Zheng Chenggong once wrote an essay on the topic “Sweeping, Greeting, Responding, Advancing, and Retreating” given by his tutor, and penned the astonishing line, “The conquests of Tang and Wu are but sweeping; the abdications of Yao and Shun are but advancing and retreating.” Later, he diligently studied the classics, history, and military strategy... More detailed information about Zheng Chenggong ++