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Mazu beliefs and customs are the first world heritage sites in China. Mazu beliefs and customs are the customs of folk beliefs, which are centered on worshipping and celebrating Mazu's spirit of good deeds and great love. Let people get along with each other and build their homes together.

It's Mazu culture. This is a kind of belief and custom culture that uses Mazu Temple as the main activity venue, temple fairs and customs as the main forms of expression to spread and carry forward the spirit of Mazu "accumulating virtue and doing good deeds and loving the world".

After the TV series "Mazu" starring Liu Tao was broadcast, many people knew the "Mazu" believed in in southern Fujian, "Mazu" is a mythological inspirational drama that reflects the life and deeds of Mazu, and uses more than 30 widely circulated Mazu folk legends as materials to show the image of Mazu. China's first world heritage of belief and customs, who is "Mazu"? It is said that Mazu is a woman named Lin Mo.

In the first year of Jianlong in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Lin family on Meizhou Island in Fujian Province added a baby girl. It is said that this child is very peculiar. The other babies were born crying, laughing all the time, and never cried from birth to the full moon, so his father named her Lin Mo.

When Lin Mo was 16 years old, she had the ability to "peep into the well". The body is still at home, but the mind has flown out of the clouds, and it can accurately calculate people's blessings and misfortunes. In the TV series "Mazu", Lin Mo once calculated the sailing weather to ensure the safety of people going to sea.

After that, she rescued shipwrecks and saved people's lives, and was deeply loved by the coastal people. After twenty-eight years of training in the human world, Lin Mo Feitian became an immortal. In order to remember her, the people of Meizhou Island affectionately call her "Mazu".

Liao Pengfei, who was in Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty for 20 years, recounted in the article "The Story of the Reconstruction of Shunji Temple in the Shengdun Ancestral Temple": "The goddess of the heavens is also passed down. The surname is Lin, a native of Meizhouyu.

At the beginning, he took witch blessings as a thing, and he could predict people's blessings and misfortunes; After the death, the public set up a temple on this island. ”This sentence means that there is a legend in the world that there is a goddess who reaches the heavens and the earth, her surname is Lin, and she is a person from Meizhou Island. In the beginning, she was able to predict people's fortunes and woes, and helped people do a lot of things.

After she died, a Mazu temple was built for her on Meizhou Island. In the Mazu Temple, the incense is flourishing and enduring. <>

The beliefs and customs of Mazu have spread all over the world. According to statistics, there are more than 5,000 Mazu temples in the world, which have become one of the main beliefs and customs in the southeast coast, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

Mazu, formerly known as "Lin Mo", was born in the first year of Song Jianlong (960) on Meizhou Island, Putian, Fujian, and was the sixth daughter of the Lin family. It is said that she was born until the full moon and did not hear the sound of crying, so her father named her "Mo".

Mazu is a god of the sea, protecting the fishermen who go to sea, and worshiping Mazu is popular in the coastal areas, because legend has it that when fishermen go out to sea to fish and encounter disasters at sea, as long as they shout Mazu, Mazu will fly over to save people, which is very respected.

The earliest written record of Mazu is that during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Lin family, and it is said that she was the goddess of Tongtian.