The arrival of the Meizhou Mazu statue from the deity’s original temple in China has caused a stir with Taiwanese believers, who scrambled to see the deity at the Cihui Mazu temple in downtown Banqiao, New Taipei City on Saturday night.
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/09/24
By George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—The arrival of the Meizhou Mazu statue from the deity’s
The arrival of the Meizhou Mazu statue from the deity’s original temple in China has caused a stir with Taiwanese believers. (By Central News Agency)
original temple in China has caused a stir with Taiwanese believers, who scrambled to see the deity at the Cihui Mazu temple in downtown Banqiao, New Taipei City on Saturday night.
Many of the believers from other parts of the island took tour buses to the local temple, where the statue of Mazu from the Meizhou Mazu Temple, stayed overnight.
The Meizhou Mazu Temple on Meizhou Island in Putian, Fujian Province, where Mazu was born and became a goddess, is universally regarded as the original temple of all other Mazu temples around the world. [FULL STORY]
