Brought from Fujian in the late Ming dynasty; the founding Prince Nezha temple in Taiwan.
The temple sits on Hexi 1st Road in Gushan District, Kaohsiung, facing the Love River. During the Kangxi era of the Qing dynasty, the stretch of river near Lane 70 of Meishu S. 2nd Road was the well-known "Longshui Harbour Pier", a landing for the bamboo rafts that ferried people across. The temple takes the name "Longshui" from it.
The temple's principal deity is the Marshal of the Central Altar, also called Prince Nezha. The statue was one of several deities carried by ancestors of the Lee family when they sailed from Fujian to Taiwan in the late Ming dynasty; they built a family shrine beside the pier to house them. What began as a private family shrine became a public temple, and after the Japanese period the temple was built on its present site. Because Prince Nezha has been here so long, the temple is also known as the "Founding Prince Nezha Temple of Longshui Harbour, Taiwan".
The Marshal of the Central Altar at Sanfeng Temple in Kaohsiung was received from this temple before 1673; the one at Guangji Temple in Cianjhen was received in 1760.
The feast day of the Marshal here falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. Each year on the seventh, Sanfeng Temple comes to offer birthday greetings and invites the statue to their temple for the opera performances, returning it on the tenth. Guangji Temple's Nezha returns by palanquin the day before the feast day to pay respects to the ancestral temple.
The Longshui Fude Shrine stands on the temple forecourt, facing the Love River, and houses the Earth God of the river's lower reach. Because the stretch of the Love River in front of the temple is near its end, the Earth God who guards it is called the "Water-tail Earth God".
The stele records the main hall as completed in February 1946; an oral account by the family records the temple as finished around 1950. Both are given here as they stand.