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Shui Yuan Lin Legend – First Episode

  • Size:5min
  • Material:Color video(loop) with sound
  • Year:2013
  • Depiction:
    Shui Yuan Lin Legend – First Episode. Shui Yuan Lin in his earlier years went to China to learn witchcraft. After returning to Taiwan, he started working in the fields, plowing with cattle. Every time, on the way to the field, he used to pass by a small temple. The cattle was reluctant to enter the field, because he was afraid of the temple. Therefore, Shui Yuan Lin went to the temple and made a promise to sacrifice his future to worshiping if the cattle would be able to easily enter the fields. Not long after, Shui Yuan Lin received a statue of Buddha from a local woodcarver, although he has not ordered one. The woodcarver came to Lin’s house and asked to pay money for the statue. Lin claimed that he has not asked for the statue, but woodcarver said some people asked him to make the Buddha statue for him. Shui Yuan Lin was very surprised to hear this, but suddenly remembered the promise he had made in the temple. During the Qing dynasty, the area around Lin’s worshiped temple turned into a graveyard, where General Su’s defeated army was buried. Now this place is known as the San Yi temple in Zhushan, Nantou. Recently, many police officers visit temple to ask for help in solving cases.

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