The history of Chinese settlement in this chain of islands, long known to Westerners as the Pescadores, goes back four hundred years earlier than in Taiwan. Here people have made their living from the sea, and the desire for divine assistance in this precarious existence has given rise to more than 200 temples large and small, giving Penghu an average of two temples per village or neighborhood-the highest concentration of any locality in Taiwan.
開發歷史早於台灣四百年的澎湖，由於海島羅列，以海為生，大小廟宇約有二百多座，平均每村、里至少有兩座寺廟，密度居全台之首。