Qingshui Temple

The Qingshui Zushi Temple in the Sanxia district near Taipei is celebrated as a living work of art, rebuilt from the 1940s under the direction of the painter Li Mei-shu. Its stone columns, walls and beams are covered with astonishingly intricate carvings of dragons, birds and figures worked over many decades by master craftsmen. Dedicated to a revered ancestral master deity, the temple became a showcase of traditional carving techniques revived after wartime damage.