第一天 赤崁樓 大天后宮 祀典武廟 全美戲院
第一天我們走訪了許多不一樣的景點,有赤崁樓、大天后宮、祀典武廟以及全美戲院,在走訪的過程中,學到的東西可不少,這些學到的知識在最後一天也會有很大的作用。
第二天 林百貨 台南孔廟 台灣文學館
第三天 彩虹酥 導覽準備
第四天 實際導覽 得獎了!
Hi! My name is Jin, and today I will be taking you to the official god of war temple, I believe you just walked out of the Grand Matsu temple right? In 三寶 hall, there is also a statue of general Guan, which is the main god of this temple! Police, Business man and soilders often come here to pray to general Guan.
Without further ado, lets get started!
As you can see, there is a road facing us, but instead of tearing down this temple to make the road straight, they did a big turn. The people at that time were furious about the idea of tearing down this temple just because of a road. As you can see, general Guan was very important to everyone.
Now look at this two round statues, they are one of the dragon's son, and can you find which this creature is here in the picture? This creature is 椒圖, and it doesn't like to be disturbed. It is often seen on the temple doors to protect the temple.
Before we go in, can you guess which door we will pass through? The one one the right? the left? or the middle? For Chinese temples, the right door is called 'Dragon' which means good luck, while the left door is called 'Tiger' and means bad luck. The middle door is only for emperors and presidents. We take good luck in and take bad luck out, so right in left out.
Let's go in! Now we can see an incense holder, there are two creatures on top, they are also one of the dragon's son, can you find it in the picture? This creature is called 狻猊, it really likes fire, it is usually seen on incense holders, because temples are easy to create a fire, so it is used to protect the temple.
Come here! Look at this! This is the weapon called the Green Dragon Crescent Blade which general Guan used, can anyone guess how heavy it weighs? It weighs around 18 kilograms.
When general Guan was beheaded, his soul was angry and wondering around. Suddenly, a monk told him: "There is no reason for you to be angry, even though you got beheaded, you also killed a lot of people! I am also here to offer you a job fo protecting the Buddhist temple." General Guan realized he also killed a lot of people, so he stopped being angry and accepeted the job.
Turn around! You can see a plate that has three words on it, does anyone know how it is pronounced in Chinese or Japanese? In Chinese, it is pronounced as 大丈夫, which means a gentle guy that won't do guilty things. In Japanese, it is pronounced as だいじょうぶ, which means 'everything is gonna be alright'.
At the back of the door, there are these bumps, they are called doornails, this means this temple is an official temple, and the main god has the same status as the emperor these days.
(Walk to the three generations hall)
This is called three generations hall, for normal temples, it is usually one generation, but because general Guan is a very well respected god, so he has a three generations hall. Like Confucius, he is also a very well respected god, can anyone guess how many generations of Confucius are prayed? Confucius has a five generations hall, which means he has five generations prayed.
Back to the three generations hall, can anyone guess which three genertions are they? The three generations are, father, grand father, grand grand father, grand grand father is in the middle, grand father is on the right and father is on the left.
There was one time where general Guan and his sister-in-laws were captured, the person who captured them wanted to ruin their reputation, so he puts them into the same room for night. Instead of sleeping with the girls, general Guan was reading books for the whole night outside the room, and saved his and his sister-in-law's reputation.
Does anyone know what kind of books were he reading? He was reading Confucius's books, general Guan is really intellengent, so he is also known as a god of literature.
That's the end of the tour! Hope you like it, and lets head to the next stop!