Monkeys invade Nantou temple, raid offering table for fruit
Monkeys invade Nantou temple, raid offering table for fruit
2025-04-02
Shoutian Temple in Nantou’s Mingjian Township has been visited by some uninvited guests. In full view of the worshipers, troops of monkeys have been charging into the temple, hiding behind the rafters while eyeing the offerings. Some even jump onto the offering table to steal bananas and oranges. Not wanting to harm the creatures, the temple staff don’t use any forceful means to scare them away. They just urge worshipers to be careful with their offerings so as to avoid being stolen by a plucky primate.
In broad daylight, this unscrupulous monkey swaggers into Nantou’s Shoutian Temple. Ignoring the people around him, he deftly grabs an offering from the table.
Even though the staff yell at him to stop, the monkey is unafraid. He takes his spoils and jumps up into the rafters to feast. He even knows to peel the orange, leaving a pile of trash in his wake. The temple staff have to climb up to clean it for him.
Temple staffer
Visitors will often come and ask where their fruit went. How did it just disappear, they’ll ask. Sometimes we don’t really know what to say.
Just like in Journey to the West, when Sun Wukong steals immortal peaches from the Queen Mother of the West, these monkeys are wreaking havoc in Mingjian Township’s Shoutian Temple, seeking to steal the birthday peaches offered to Xuantian Shangdi. Not even the packaged offerings are safe.
Temple staffer
They’ll tear it open to get what they want and then run away. So it might not really be possible to salvage, but we’ll help the worshipers mind it.
Worshiper
It’s interesting. But if they attack people, it wouldn’t be good.
Worshiper
We’ve already taken over too much of their habitat, so they’ll start engaging in this kind of behavior.
The temple reminded visitors to be careful to avoid conflict with the animals. It’s best to package fruit offerings in boxes to keep them from becoming a primate feast.
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不速之客! 猴子大軍入侵南投受天宮跳上桌偷供品
2025-04-02
南投名間鄉受天宮，最近出現不速之客，猴子大軍，眾目睽睽之下，闖進宮廟，躲在梁上，對著桌上的壽桃虎視眈眈，甚至還跳上供桌，偷走香蕉跟橘子。廟方基於保護動物的立場，無法採取強硬手段驅趕猴子，呼籲香客多加留意祭拜的供品，免得一轉身，就被猴子洗劫了！
光天化日、肆無忌憚，猴子大搖大擺闖進南投受天宮，無視人群，眼明手快，搶走桌上供品。
儘管現場人員有出聲制止，但猴子根本沒在怕，拿著搶來的戰利品，跳到梁上大快朵頤，很聰明，還知道剝皮，留下一堆果皮垃圾，廟方還得架梯子爬上去清理。
[[廟方人員]]
“經常會有香客來問，我的水果怎麼不見了，忽然這個東西怎麼不見了，他會來問，有時候我們也比較尷尬”
古有西遊記描述，孫悟空大鬧天宮，偷吃王母娘娘的"蟠桃"，如今在南投名間鄉，也有猴子大鬧受天宮，想把供奉給帝爺公的"壽桃"吞下肚。就連有封膜的供品，也難逃一劫。
[[廟方人員]]
“牠會撕開來，會直接拿了就跳上去了，所以要處理這個，可能比較沒有辦法，幫各位香客顧到”
[[民眾]]
“是很有趣啦，但是如果人身攻擊，那就很麻煩了”
[[民眾]]
“因為我們已經佔了牠們太多生存空間了，所以今天牠們才會有這種行為出現啊”
廟方也提醒大家注意安全，要避免與猴子正面衝突，水果供品最好也用盒子裝好，才不會成了猴子的大餐！
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