Thursday, July 3, 2014

艋岬 X 龍山寺: Monga Long Shan Temple

heard of it over and over

and “Monga” has become a

special term after the movie

 

keywords that popped up in my mind

during the visit are like

oopps it’s in idioms

I don’t think they are that

translatable

“香火鼎盛”

“絡繹不絕”

“誠能動神”

Monga Long Shan Temple 艋岬.龍山寺

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there’s the hall for Yue Lao 月老 too

the “Grandpa of the Moon” who

supposedly takes care of

marriage and love

 

I swear I prayed real hard to him

he sent me someone but

I am not even sure if

this gonna work out

 

spiral roof aka

Zao Jing 澡井

Monga Long Shan Temple 艋岬.龍山寺 Monga Long Shan Temple 艋岬.龍山寺 Monga Long Shan Temple 艋岬.龍山寺 Monga Long Shan Temple 艋岬.龍山寺

 

Chinese corbel bracket aka

dougong 斗拱

Monga Long Shan Temple 艋岬.龍山寺 Monga Long Shan Temple 艋岬.龍山寺 Monga Long Shan Temple 艋岬.龍山寺

 

despite its quaintness

the management is really systematic

they have counters like banks to

serve all purposes such as

registration for praying camps,

well-wishing ceremony,

so on and so forth including

general enquiries

 

so the public actually have to

get their queue numbers

fill up forms and

settle themselves at the waiting area

before they proceed to

process their request

Monga Long Shan Temple 艋岬.龍山寺

 

a quick research and I found that

there are actually

three famous temples in Monga 艋舺三大廟

  • Qing Shan Palace 艋舺青山宮
  • Long Shan Temple 台北龍山寺
  • Qing Shui Zu Shi Temple 清水巖祖師廟

 

so I have given Qing Shan Temple a miss

Zu Shi Temple was where we passed by

but it was so quiet that

I am even unsure if I should enter

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and this is actually where

the poster of the movie was shot

well.. too bad you give it a miss

Monga Rev Qing Shui Temple

 

well frankly speaking

I don’t really enjoy the movie that much

but it’s more like a stepping stone for

Mark Mark so I watched it anyway

over and over because

I don’t really catch the sentiments

 

and we should have visited

at night for the night market

it’s okay

there’s always next time

 

we went on to

wander our ways to XiMenDing

2km or so

totally different kind of crowds

on a Sunday afternoon

XiMenDing 西門町