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Back hall

As soon as one sees yellow gold and white silver one is consumed by covetousness and greed, and forgets that there is a blue heaven above

After one tastes the sour of tears and the saltiness of blood one feels regrets; one ought not to have acted vicious and lied and thought said that there is no abyss of suffering in the world

The god's image has been recast; this place for praying for good fortune flourishes in all its glory

The temple has been renovated; inquire about good fortune and ill

As long as I am steadfastly moral, what does it matter if I do not worship

As long as you are obsessed with the false, what good will it do even if you burn incense

The man died and became a god, the commemoration is on the 16 th day of the 4 th month

His honor first built a city for this county five hundred and twenty one years ago

The people are responsible for giving good protection to historical relics

The city-god temple is the largest historical architecture in Tangxi

Front hall, Back section

You should know that I can be lenient and I can be understanding; the executioner's sword us put aside. Turn back and repent

No matter how lawless and wild you may be, when the bright mirror hangs before you do you feel fear or not?

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Central row of columns right side

Think! Whom have I ever easily pardoned? You should quickly repent and not harm others

Stop! What are you doing secretly? How dare you come here and deceive me!

Whatever happens is the result of cause and effect, know that the auspicious and inauspicious, good fortune and disaster, are accurate retribution

When you see the imposing edifice of the temple you understand that honesty and sycophancy are rewarded and punished differently

It is only because the god has unvarying true insight and correctness that he can oversee reward and punishment

In this place high and low, rich and poor do not matter, only the ranking of good and bad is kept

The mirror of your deeds hangs above the altar ; as long as you meet an acceptable standard, I am prepared to be merciful

Hell is before your eyes, do not wait until you have committed a crime to wake up to it

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Right side

Drum

Bell

The mirror reflecting wrongdoing hangs on high, it will not harm people who look straight into it with a heart of goodness

Illuminating the person like a mirror reflects, good and ill luck, disaster and fortune are bestowed with total impartiality

Those with much to be ashamed of and those with evil thoughts ought to fear that there is something spying on them

The god knows all your thoughts, he can immediately make a judgment of good and bad, true and false

Black Non-constancy and White Non-constancy

Minor spirit court officers

Front hall, middle section

I however cannot be fooled, I will remember everything that has been done, and final reckoning has never been wrong

Your calculator is fine, every step is correct, but the end result is entirely false.

Front hall, front section

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Central row of columns right side

When one has offended Heaven there is no prayer, early on one should distinguish righteousness from advantage, the public good from self interest

If you wish to be sincere do not deceive yourself, what need is there to ask about good and ill, disaster and fortune

Look up to heaven-and-earth and be first concerned with being for the people your whole life long; should you die within the day you still will attain glory

When grudges fill the heart and you are only concerned with benefiting yourself then even if your good fortune lasts a long time what good will it do you

Left wall - Punishing the Evil

Right wall - Rewarding the Good

When behave as a good person your heart will be correct your person will be secure and you will feel peace even in your dreams

When you compete for fame and profit you should know that there will always be a day of reckoning

What benefits the good and harms the perverse - these are discerned as clearly as by the sun and moon suspended on high a thousand miles away

Good and evil are like ice and hot coals, neither can survive the other - let this encourage you, Sir, to reflection on yourself

Suppress the powerful, support the weak - thus will the peace in the world be secured forever

Righteousness and profit, auspicious and inauspicious, are the two paths; please, Sir, be careful even when all alone

When you do some good things, heaven will know, earth will observe, and the ghosts-and-spirits will be respectful

Good and evil will have their recompense, do not say that nothing carries over from previous lifetimes

The hidden assignment of reward and punishment are hard for the eye to behold, but you can see how it works out

Good and evil in our world are every person's responsibility, when you come here the assessment is never wrong

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Don't fight fate, know that what happens has a prior cause, just focus on the present

Gate

The city is secured: there is Nine-Peak Mountain full of beauty and Gu River with its spiritual power.

The customs are honest: there are farmers chatting in the Ge fields and fishermen singing on the Yue river

Morality has declined but people still like to offer incense and pray for help, they know the gods are there

The temple's appearance has been renovated, look up to the majesty and fame of its spiritual power; we shall not forget its protection through the ages