King Qingshan Ling'an

Qingshan Ling'an Zunwang, popularly known as Qingshan Wang, is traditionally believed to have been General Zhang Kun of the Min Kingdom during the Five Dynasties period. He garrisoned Qingshan Mountain in Hui'an County and, after his death, was enshrined by local residents at Qingshan Gong. Whenever pirates threatened the coast, villagers’ prayers to him were said to yield immediate divine intervention. During the Song Dynasty, he was posthumously enfeoffed as Ling’an Hou (Marquis Ling’an) and later elevated to Ling’an Zunwang (Honorable King Ling’an). In the Qing Dynasty, migrants from Hui'an brought his incense ashes to Bangka (modern-day Wanhua District, Taipei), where they established the Bangka Qingshan Gong. There, Qingshan Wang came to be venerated as a celestial inspector who patrols the human realm on Heaven’s behalf—functionally equivalent to the City God. Each year, in the days preceding his birthday on the 22nd day of the 10th lunar month, the temple holds a grand nocturnal inspection procession—an exuberant folk festival that draws massive crowds and vibrant processional troupes across Taipei. The cult of Qingshan Wang sustains the ancestral memory of Hui'an immigrants and embodies the enduring spiritual continuity between Fujian and Taiwan.