(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) "The World's Mazu Returns to Her Mother's Home" starts a live broadcast and prays for the "epidemic" to spread

　　China News Service, Fujian, Meizhou Island, April 1st (Lin Chunyin Gao Yacheng) On the 1st (the first day of the third month of the lunar calendar), the 1062nd anniversary of Mazu's birth is approaching. The flagpole symbolizing the lighthouse and "hope to return" is located in Putian City, Fujian Province, the "hometown of Mazu". Meizhou Island was erected high, and the "Matsu in the World Returns to Her Mother's Home" and the cloud prayer event of Mazu Temple in Meizhou in the year of Renyin kicked off.

　　Mazu is the goddess who protects the safety of the sea. After 36 times of praise in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Mazu has spread to 47 countries and regions around the world. There are more than 10,000 Mazu temples and more than 300 million admirers.

　　The 23rd day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the birthday of Mazu, and believers at home and abroad go to Meizhou Island every year around the birthday to visit the ancestors.

This religious and custom activity of "Mazu returning to her mother's home" was huge and lasted for more than a month. From the first month of 2021 to the third month of the lunar calendar, more than 500,000 people visited the island to attend the meeting.

Meizhou Mazu Ancestral Temple invites worshipers of Mazu from all over the world to visit Mazu in the form of live broadcast.

Photo by Gao Yacheng

　　Lin Jinzan, chairman of the board of directors of the Meizhou Mazu Temple, the organizer of the event, told a reporter from Chinanews.com that visiting Mazu from thousands of miles is a cultural landscape that has been passed down for thousands of years.

Under the epidemic, Meizhou Mazu Ancestral Temple and representatives of Mazu cultural institutions from countries along the “Belt and Road”, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and domestic provinces and cities gathered in the cloud to visit Mazu in the form of live broadcast, praying for the “epidemic” to disperse. Grandma loves it.

　　"Five continents and four seas share the fragrance of the heart. We interact online and offline to overcome the difficulties together, pray together, and pray that Mazu will bless the epidemic and the blessings will come down, and the mountains and rivers will be safe." Lin Jinzan said.

　　At 10 o'clock that day, the trombone rang through the mountains, two flags of the "Virgin of the World" were raised in the wind on Hunting Island, and 18 red lights swayed in the wind, calling the world to return to one like a beacon.

After the gong was sounded, Lin Jinzan greeted the distinguished guests in the main hall of Mazu. According to the ancient system, the statue of Mazu, who "returned to her mother's house" according to the ancient system, passed the furnace and was seated.

　　During the live broadcast, representatives from dozens of Mazu temples in Nigeria, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Singapore, Japan, and Thailand sent representatives to deliver speeches of blessings in the cloud.

Palaces and temples in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Yunlin, Kaohsiung, Yilan, Tainan, Keelung, Kinmen and other places have also been launched to participate in the grand event.

　　Sun Decong, President of Jiangsu Kunshan Taiwanese Business Association and head of Kunshan Mazu Cultural Exchange Association, said in his prayer speech that with Mazu belief as a bond, Taiwanese businessmen in mainland China not only held the "Kunshan Mazu Thousand Miles Journey" fellowship this year, but also returned to Meizhou Island. "Hometown of the Heart" inherits the incense and spreads great love.

　　Liu Zhenghong, a young man from Penghu who runs a crab herbarium on Meizhou Island, walked into the live broadcast. He entered the temple with Fenling Mazu in his arms and performed the ceremony of officiating with Lin Jinzan.

He said: "When the 'epidemic' disperses and blooms, the family will definitely come to make a pilgrimage to the ancestors." (End)