Cultural resource management of Taipei’s indigenous folk temples

Culturally preserving the historical, cultual, and architectural legacy of Chinese folk temples such as Lung-shan Ssu, Pao-an Kung and Hsing-t’ien Kung remains the provenance of the masses of devoted followers of these temples. But government, scholars, government tourist agencies and non-government organizations (NGOs) can also assist in their preservation. Indigenous folk temples in Taipei represent the religious and historical conflation of influences from the “great ” tradition (Redfield 1953) of the literati/gentry of Chinese settlers to the island and influences from the “little ” tradition of the common people. The Han settlers who came to Taiwan did not come to an uninhabitated area