Wang-Ye

"Beigang has Matsu, Kunshen has Wang-Ye"; Wang-Ye and Matsu have the two greatest groups of followers in Taiwan. God of plague is the deity most widely venerated in Taiwan, and has the largest number of temples dedicated to him. According to a survey made ten years ago by the scholar Chiu Teh-Tsai, there are almost 700 Wang-Ye temples in Taiwan, accounting for one in nine of all the island's temples.