Template:Did you know nominations/Lugang Mazu Temple

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Lugang Mazu Temple

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The Main Hall of the Lugang Mazu Temple

• ... that Lugang's Mazu Temple includes wood carvings of the "Four Best Things in Life": Stretching, Ear-cleaning, Nose-picking, and Scratching?
  • ALT1:... that the front hall differs from the rest of the Mazu Temple in Lugang because it stores the art from a city god temple destroyed by the occupying Japanese in 1933?
  • ALT2:... that four beasts with dragon heads, fish tails, and bird wings supposedly protect the Mazu Temple in Lugang from fire?
  • ALT3:... that the Gold Mazu in Lugang's Mazu Temple was made from 150 kg of gold donated by pilgrims?
  • ALT4:... that the Jinxiang Mazu in Lugang's Mazu Temple was created as a double of another, older idol after it was almost stolen during a pilgrimage?
  • ALT5:... that the Black-face Mazu in Lugang's Mazu Temple was allegedly brought to Taiwan by its conquerer Shi Lang?
  • ALT6:... that the Mazu Temple in Lugang honors the divine form of Lin Moniang, a medieval Fujianese shamaness?
  • ALT7:... that Lugang's Mazu Temple credits its goddess with ending Taiwan's 1960 drought?
  • ALT8:... that a busload of teachers on vacation in 1963 credited the goddess of the city's Mazu Temple with saving their lives during an accident in 1963?
  • ALT9:... that Lugang's Mazu Temple credits its goddess with the miraculous rescue of several lost high school students in 1972?

• Reviewed: Will do Filibus
• Comment: @Reviewers: Don't worry. You only need to verify the hook(s) most interesting to you. If you need tighter sourcing for ALT6, lemme know and I can copy/paste some descriptive text and sourcing from Mazu.

Created by LlywelynII (talk). Self-nominated at 14:59, 19 December 2016 (UTC).

• New enough (when nominated), easily long enough, neutral, cited and illustrated. Checks free of copyvios. Love ALT0 and cited! Good to go. Ribbet32 (talk) 06:24, 23 January 2017 (UTC)