According to the inscription on a stone tablet there, Yuchu Temple was built in 1736 as a sub-temple of another Yuchu Temple in Fujian Province. From the very start it was clearly dedicated not only to the theater, but also to the protection of women and children, for it says so right on a big inscribed couplet outside one of the doorways.
根據玉渠宮內一座石碑記載，玉渠宮乃田都元帥，是乾隆初年泉州府晉江縣石廈鄉施姓族人從石獅奉請來台，一開始就具有守護鄉民的功能。「玉宇玲瓏永佑婦嬰施慧眼，渠恩浩蕩曾調音律逐邪魔」，廟堂上的一副對聯說明了田都元帥兼任戲曲神與地方守護神的雙重神格。