Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple

On June 6, Mazu cultural groups such as the Tianhou Ancestral Temple at Updun, Baishahu, Honghai Bay, Shanwei, Guangdong; the Mazu Pavilion of Sansi, Pingtan, Fuzhou; and the Guanyin Hall in Wenxi Village, Peifeng Town, Yongding District, Longyan organized pilgrimage groups to travel to Meizhou Mazu Temple to pay homage and offer incense.

Tianhou Ancestral Temple at Updun, Baishahu, Honghai Bay, Shanwei, Guangdong Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 1

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 1

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 2

pilgrimage group arrived at the Ancestral Temple

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 3

Mazu Divinity Branches

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 4

Du Jianxian, a director of the Meizhou Mazu Temple Board of Directors, warmly welcomed everyone and accompanied Liu Yuxiang, Wu Huajian, Li Qihui, Wang Liuxin, Huang Xianbin, and Wu Cuixiong of the Shangdun Tian Taihou Ancestral Temple in Baishahu, Honghai Bay, Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, to present Mazu with the solemn Three Offerings Rite.

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 5

Three Offerings Rite

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 6

Presentation of exchange souvenirs

Fuzhou Pingtan Sandao Mazu Pavilion Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 7

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 7

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 8

The pilgrimage group arrived at the Ancestral Temple

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 9

Mazu from a split-off incense branch

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 10

Lin Qunhua, a director of the Meizhou Mazu Temple board, warmly welcomed the visitors and accompanied Kang Guilin, head of the Mazu Pavilion of the Pingtan Three-Island, and others in performing the solemn Three Offerings rite to Mazu.

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 11

Three Offerings rite

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 12

Exchange of commemorative gifts

Ling Hecheng, chairman of the Pingtan Sanshan Mazu Pavilion, said that this group came to the Ancestral Temple to pay respects and offer incense. Among them were many young believers. He was very glad to see so many young people like him coming to learn about Mazu culture. He hopes more young people will carry on Mazu culture and let the Mazu spirit shine with new brilliance in the new era.

Guanyin Hall, Wenxi Village, Peifeng Town, Yongding District, Longyan Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 13

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 13

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 14

The pilgrimage group arrives at the Ancestral Temple

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 15

Lin Yumei, a board member of the Meizhou Mazu Ancestral Temple Board of Directors, warmly welcomed the visitors and accompanied Zheng Qingzhou, the person in charge of Guanyin Hall in Wenxi Village, Peifeng Town, Yongding District, Longyan, and others in performing the solemn three-offering rite to Mazu.

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 16

Three-offering rite

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 17

Incense-Cutting and Fire-Gathering Rite

Mazu Returns Home | Mazu cultural groups from Guangdong, Fujian, and other places paid homage and offered incense at Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 18

Exchange of Commemorative Gifts

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[Issue 98 of 2026, total issue 558]