Paste Decoration of Shuang-Ci temple’s roof top

The fragment art

Shuang-Ci temple has hired Kun-Cun Li, who has sixty-four years of the fragment art experience and has been the professional master of the fragment art to make the decoration of the temple. Kun-Cun Li had learned from Lian-Chi Shi, who was an outstanding craftsman, Li is also the third generation of inheritor of Jing-Yun Mei, who was the first fragment art and cochin pottery master in the earliest temple in Taiwan. Kun-Cun Li had made many artworks for countless temples, his artworks include many famous historical stories, like Shang Tang hired Yi Yin, King Wen of Zhou state who hired Jiang Tai-Gong beside the Wei River, Shun from Yu state who ploughed to present Chinese Parental Respect, and the story about Liu Bei who recruited a talent called Zhu Ge-Liang by visiting him three times, and so on. Also, Li has presented master manner by making realistic artworks of picture of double dragons that genuflect to Qilin, which symbolizes the legitimate right of emperor to govern the country and four eaves on roof corners with auspicious stone sculpture lion steps on the ball.

The fragment art, also known as inlaid porcelain (Qiàn cí or Tsián-Hue), was originated from Fujian and Guangdong. In Taiwan, the fragment art was introduced to Taiwan from China during early Qing Dynasty. The origin of cochin pottery can throwback to tri-color glazes of Tang Dynasty. The name of “cochin” was called by Japanese during Japanese colonial period. Due to Japanese’s favorite of color glaze artworks which came from Foshan, Guangdong, furthermore, Lingnan area was called as “Cochin” by Japanese for a very long time. Thus, potteries from Guangdong were called as “Cochin pottery”.