China News Agency, Zhangzhou, June 10 (Reporter Zhang Jinchuan) The 2021 Cross-Strait (Zhangzhou) Shipu Peaceful Blessing Season opened on the 10th in Zhangzhou, Fujian.
The event is co-sponsored by Shipu Tzu Chi Palace in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province and Xuejia Tzu Chi Palace in Tainan. It will carry out stepping on the streets, five offering rituals, blessing ceremonies, and giving medicines to the free clinic of "Truth Tzu Chi". activity.
Hong Xiuzhu, chairman of the Taiwan Chinese Blue Goose Peace Education Foundation, sent a congratulatory letter to pray for the two sides of the strait.
She pointed out in the congratulatory letter that although the epidemic is severe, the exchanges between the temples on both sides of the strait have not stalled.
The people on both sides of the strait are a family connected by blood. They are connected, caring for each other, and getting closer and closer. The faith and culture of Emperor Baosheng is more affecting the hearts of believers on both sides of the strait.
Jinmen County Magistrate Yang Zhenwu stated in the congratulatory letter that in 2017, the "Praying for Peace in Kinmen-the Five Protection of Emperor Baosheng" event hosted by Kinmen County, Zhangzhou Shipu Tzu Chi Palace, as the representative palace and temple of the mainland, participated in the grand event.
It was held in Zhangzhou on the same theme for the first time in five years, fully embodying the true meaning of "the two sides of the strait are of one heart and the roots of the law."
The Emperor Baosheng was originally named Wu Kai, a good doctor of the Northern Song Dynasty who was born in Longhai Baijiao, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province. He has noble medical ethics and is highly admired. Later, he became a Taoist god commonly believed by Chinese in southern Fujian, Chaoshan, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.
The person in charge of the Shipu Tzu Chi Palace in Zhangzhou said that Emperor Baosheng witnessed the same clan on both sides of the strait and was a bond of close ties between the people on both sides of the strait.
Today, there are hundreds of palaces and temples dedicated to Emperor Baosheng in the mainland and Taiwan. Baosheng Emperor is the second largest folk belief in Taiwan after Mazu.
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