Temple; the idol installed was named after the king of the place, ChekachaiKhan, (son of Kublai Khan?) and the temple duly named Thirukkaneeswarar temple.
Anyway, the existance of a Hindu temple in Quanzhou, and its Tamil reporting goes to show the trading partnership of south India and China. he details of six lines in Tamil of the Kalvettu:1. harah svasti sri sagaptam 1203 vatu cittirai2. ccittirai nal sri ce[kace]kan tirumenikku nan3. raka udaiyar tiruk[ka]niccuramudaiya nayanarai4. eriyaruiap panninar campanda perumal5. ana tavaccakkaravartikal ce[ka]caikan parman6. padiAccording to Prof. Noboru Karashima of Tokyo Taisho university, "The above text reveals that in 1281 a Tamilian called ChampandaPerumal alias tavach-chakkravartikal, by permission of Chekachai Kan, i. e., Chchchai Kahan (the Chinese Emperor Kublai Khan?) installed an idol of Siva there to pray for the health of the authority. The installation of Siva idol may well be taken for the establishment of a Siva temple which is called as Thirukkanichuram obviuosly named after the emperoer Khan and it is quite interesting to note in this connection that in Quanzhou there are still many pieces of stone sculptures and pillars with carved designs which represent Hindu religion. The sculptures and pillars remaining in a Buddhist temple called the kaiyuansi were studied by A K KUmaraswamy but since 1950 many more pieces have been excavated. These Hindu sculptures and pillars indicate that there was once a fairly big Hindu temple in Quanzhou. It has been suggested by a Chineses scholar that a Hindu temple called the Fanfosi was constructed by a son-in-law of Pu Shougeng a famous muslim high official living in Quanzhou during the thirteenth century. But the Tamil inscription mentioned above may explain better the circumstances in which a Hindu temple was established in Quanzhou. Anyway, the existance of Siva sculptures and a Tamil inscription reporting the establishment of a Hindu temple is a sure indication that there was a considearble Hindu Tamil population in Quanzhou during the thirteenth century"