A Document of the Historical Transition and Resistance of FuHai Temple under the Taoyuan Aerotropolis

• Main Authors: LIN, CHING-HSO, 林清旭
• Other Authors: Zeng, Ji-Xian
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/z64gs9

碩士 === 國立臺南藝術大學 === 音像紀錄與影像維護研究所 === 106 === Taoyuan Aerotropolis is the largest development project in Taiwan’s history. However, the development process encounters the situation in which extensive land acquisition by the government compromises residency rights of the local residents. There are mainly three points of controversy. (1) Lands acquired by the government are mostly farmlands for specific purposes. (2) Compensatory measures offered by the government for acquired land sections are not acceptable to the local residents. (3) Citizen groups and the local residents believe that the original state-owned land (the navy base) is already sufficient and it is not necessary for the government to additionally acquire private lands (as the greenfield site for the third runway). The century-old Fuhai Temple is situated at the end of airport runways in the urban plan of Taoyuan Aerotropolis and is already included as a target for acquisition in the early planning of Taoyuan Aerotropolis by the Ministry of Transportation and Communication. However, its architecture as a temple has been registered as a historical building by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Taoyuan City, and the traditional folk event of ‘Feinian Sedan Chair Passing over Golden Fire’ in the annual birthday celebration for the temple’s central deity has also been registered as an intangible cultural heritage. Understandably, the followers refused to have the temple of their deity relocated and eventually prompted the government to agree to ‘leave the temple where it is and plot a religious precinct with the existing temple as the center and including the surrounding area within an appropriate distance’ after their constant petitions and protests. The Fuhai Temple Precinct covered the green land surrounding the temple within 100 meters in the first public display of its planning by the Ministry of the Interior, but the covered land was reduced to be within 20 meters in the second public display. The reduced green land surrounding the temple makes it possible to perform traditional rituals of folk culture for the temple. This equates cutting off the century-old traditional folk culture that centers upon the temple. It is no surprise that the followers are outraged thinking that the government has deceived their deity and a clash between religious culture and urban development henceforth unfolds.