Guan Yu Koh Samui Shrine – Inauguration & Incantation Ceremonies Jan 2016

Samui WebTV produced this brand-new film about the greatest Bronze Statue in Thailand in collaboration with Sea Eagle Eyes (drone shootings).

HISTORY OF GUAN YU

Guan Yu (160AD-219AD), otherwise known as Yunchang, was born in the region

of Xiezhou of Hedong (a sub-district of present day of Yuncheng, Shanxi Province)

and become a renowned general during the Three Kingdom era of China.

Due to his outstanding civil and military talents as well as his virtues of loyalty

and righteousness, he has been revered as a God of War, and worshipped as

bodhisattva in the Mahayana Buddhism and as a guardian deity in Taoism.

Lionized as prominent example of Chinese civilization, his influences now extend

national boundaries to Chinese communities all over the world and even the

cultures across time and space.

Since his death, a large number of Chinese people have respected him due

to his high outstanding profile of integrity and worshipped him as one of the

Gods from grassroots through the emperors. He has been embedded him into

the memory of the Chinese people for his five moral characteristics

1. Honesty

2. Loyalty & Grateful

3. Constancy

4. Ethical Behavior

5. Bravery and Courage

GUAN YU KOH SAMUI SHRINE

(Nakai – Huathanon)

190/1 M. 1 Maret, Koh Samui, Suratthani, 84310 Thailand | Tel : 077-418-854 | Fax: 077-418-856