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侯王廟休憩花園
Hau Wong Temple Rest Garden
採用三進式設計的九龍城侯王廟最早建於南宋年末,以表揚和紀念南宋忠臣楊亮節在宋帝昺南逃至九龍時護駕有功,彰其忠義。現存的侯王廟修建於1730年,並在清朝年間進行數次修繕,及後在2005年進行大規模翻新,加入詩詞坊和許願墻等,成為今日侯王廟休憩花園的模樣。廟內保存多組精緻的石灣浮雕和清朝年間官員所賜贈的匾額石刻,其中由光緒年間文人所一筆寫而成的「鵝」字和「鶴」字石刻和對聯安放在花園的別亭和後山坡上,石刻的原稿在日據時期被毀,目前所看到的均是在1970年摹刻的。
Hau Wong Temple in Kowloon City is a three-bay building, first built at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty to commemorate loyal marquis Yeung Leung Jit, who escorted the Song emperor when they fled to Kowloon. The existing Hau Wong Temple was built in 1730 and underwent several repairs during the Qing Dynasty. Afterwards, it was significantly renovated in 2005, adding poetry workshop spaces and wishing walls, becoming the current Hau Wong Temple Rest Garden. The temple preserves a number of exquisite antiquities, including Shiwan reliefs and plaques from Qing government officials. Particularly, stone carvings of the characters ‘goose’ and ‘crane’ and a couplet written by literati in the Qing Guangxu period (1875–1908) were placed in the garden’s side pavilion and hillside. The current stone carvings were made in 1970 as replicas of the original Qing carvings destroyed during the Japanese occupation.