Mazu Tempel, the "Mazu Tempel of Meizhou", was founded in 987, the 4th year of the Northern Song Dynasty, and is the birthplace of Mazu culture. Meizhou Mazu Tempel is the first Mazu Tempel in the world, and most of the existing buildings are in the Qing Dynasty.
The front hall of Mazu Tempel complex is laid out with the central axis and built according to the mountain situation, forming a main temple road with a depth of 300 meters and a height difference of more than 40 meters. The buildings on both sides are connected by 323 steps from the mountain gate, the instrument gate to the main hall.
There is also a giant Mazu stone statue at the top of the ancestral hall, which is 14 meters high. On May 25th, 2006, Mazu Tempel was announced by People's Republic of China (PRC) and the State Council as the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
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Mazu in the world, ancestors in Meizhou. For thousands of years, with the continuous spread of fishermen, boatmen and businessmen, Mazu culture has spread all over 38 countries and regions in the world and has nearly 300 million followers all over the world. Mazu Tempel in Meizhou is the birthplace of Mazu culture, the pilgrimage center of Mazu believers all over the world, and the bridge and link between people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Mazu belief is widely prevalent in the southeast coastal areas of China, and the number of people who believe in Mazu in Taiwan Province Province is as high as ten million. With the increasingly frequent cross-strait exchanges, a large number of people from Taiwan Province Province went to Meizhou Island to visit Mazu Tempel.
Meizhou Island receives more than 654.38+million people from Taiwan Province every year, and by the end of 2008, it has received a total of 1.6 million people from Taiwan Province. Mazu culture is playing an irreplaceable role in cross-strait exchanges and has become a spiritual bond connecting people on both sides of the strait.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Mazu Tempel