One Family Across the Taiwan Strait | Yitian Temple in Yanshui, Tainan, Taiwan Makes a Pilgrimage to the Meizhou Mazu Temple

On October 2, Yitian Temple in Yanshui, Tainan, Taiwan organized a pilgrimage delegation to pay homage to Mazu at the Meizhou Mazu Temple.

One Family Across the Taiwan Strait | Yitian Temple in Yanshui, Tainan, Taiwan Makes a Pilgrimage to the Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 2

One Family Across the Taiwan Strait | Yitian Temple in Yanshui, Tainan, Taiwan Makes a Pilgrimage to the Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 3

The pilgrimage delegation arrives at the Ancestral Temple

One Family Across the Taiwan Strait | Yitian Temple in Yanshui, Tainan, Taiwan Makes a Pilgrimage to the Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 4

Branched Mazu statue

One Family Across the Taiwan Strait | Yitian Temple in Yanshui, Tainan, Taiwan Makes a Pilgrimage to the Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 5

Du Jianxian, a board member of the Meizhou Mazu Temple, warmly welcomed the delegation and accompanied Chen Yuchun and Cai Fujie of Yitian Temple in Yanshui, Tainan, Taiwan, as well as incense-burner patrons Cai Huiya and Xu Jiawei, in performing the solemn Three-Offering Rite before Mazu.

One Family Across the Taiwan Strait | Yitian Temple in Yanshui, Tainan, Taiwan Makes a Pilgrimage to the Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 6

Three-Offering Rite

One Family Across the Taiwan Strait | Yitian Temple in Yanshui, Tainan, Taiwan Makes a Pilgrimage to the Meizhou Mazu Temple - image 7

Branched Mazu Statue

People on Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait Are One Family

[Issue 84 of 2026, No. 434 overall]