Lavish Wang Yeh Apart from the King of Chingshan, there are several other plague busters around the island. In the early period of Han Chinese settlement in Taiwan, disease was rife and medicine scarce. People relied on religion to create a sense of solidarity and to give themselves the confidence that they could endure life's hardships.
王爺最風光除了青山王，寶島南北還有各種祛瘟除煞的神祇，尤其是過去先民自大陸渡海來台，瘴癘叢生，醫藥匱乏，民間一向靠宗教信仰凝聚民氣、堅定信心，來度過難關。