Introduction to the Yanping County Prince Temple: The Yanping County Prince Temple was established in the 38th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1699). It was ordered that Zheng Chenggong's coffin be moved to his hometown, Nan'an, to bury the Zheng family's ancestral tomb, and a temple be built to worship it. The ancestral temple sits in the southwest and northeast, with the sea in front and Aoshi Mountain in the back. Along the central axis from north to south, there are the screen wall, the mountain gate, and the main hall, with auxiliary buildings on the side and a flagpole stone in front of the door. The main hall is three rooms wide, with a wooden frame with raised beams, a hard top, and a dovetail-shaped roof. There are plaques such as "Three Generations and Five Lords" and "Mighty and Majestic" hanging in the hall, and the pillars are engraved with couplets of praise from previous dynasties. Among them are couplets written by Emperor Kangxi when Zheng Chenggong and his son were buried. If you dare to fight for half of the army to the southeast; if you have more than one heart in the four towns and the will to resist in one corner, you will know that there is a lonely loyalist overseas."

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