Narrative Murals as a Form of Offerings and Evidence of Confucian Conggregation Participation in Maintaining the Temple.

This study focuses on the question of why narrative murals are consistently present in temples, what these murals depict, and what themes they contain. A qualitative descriptive case study approach has been employed to answer these questions. Three types of data were used to study the murals: visual data in the form of the murals themselves, interviews, and documents. The findings of this study show that a narrative mural is intended as an offering to express gratitude to the gods or goddesses for the fulfilment of a family's prayers to demonstrate the congregation's participation in maintaining the temple’s existence.