By Wang Chieh, Lin Liang-sheng and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writerPolice have detained Wang Wen-tsung （王文宗）, chairman of Tainan’s Cihji Temple, and listed him as an additional suspect in two shooting incidents at Democratic Progressive Party-linked sites in the city’s Syuejia District （學甲） in November last year.
<strong>April 19 to April 25</strong>
Taipei’s Dalongdong Baoan Temple (大龍峒保安宮) was in a sorry state following the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) retreat to Taiwan in 1949. About 200 refugees and military dependents had taken over the 119-year-old structure and set up camp in makeshift dwellings.
When writer Wu Chao-lun (吳朝綸) moved to Dalongdong in 1950, he saw “little incense burning; it was extremely crowded … and there was barely any space to sit. They washed their clothes with dirty water and hung them up still dripping. This is not only blasphemous, but unsanitary.”
To save the temple, locals put together a restoration