Recently, the Mazu Temple in Taoyuan and Geelong, Taiwan, has applied to the mainland for permission to return to the Heavenly Empress Palace-meizhou Ancestral Temple. The temple wants to visit Meizhou Island in Putian, Fujian province, from July 26 to 28, take a yacht to take Mazu home. However, Taiwan has spread may prevent the Mazu Mazu home trip, make the island people unhappy Mazu home to be Lai authorities blocked.
Taiwanese media reported that 14 deities, including the Taoyuan Gyeongbokgung, Taoyuan’s Fushou Palace, Yongyuan’s Tin Hau Temple and Keelung’s Baduzidutiangong Temple, were planning to travel to Meizhou Island, Putian, from July 26 to 28, temple ready to send a yacht Mazu back home. At the same time, he applied to relevant units on both sides of the strait to bring Mazu back to his mother’s home in Meizhou Island, and the board of directors of the mainland Putian Heavenly Empress Palace-meizhou Ancestral Temple wrote back to express his sincere welcome and sincere expectation. He hoped that this exchange would serve as an opportunity to maintain close communication, to further promote cross-strait exchanges between the people, carry forward the fine Chinese cultural tradition and struggle.
The picture shows the launching ceremony of“The World Matsu goes back to her mother’s home”
However, it was reported that the Taiwanese side had doubts about the way the yacht would go. The Taiwanese media reported that the Taiwan Airlines Port Authority will block the trip of Ma Zu to her parents’ home on the grounds that the temple side plans to take Ma zu back to her parents’ home using the yacht as a means of transportation, to the island people unhappy Mazu back home will be the DPP authorities blocked.
The culture of the two sides of the strait is of the same origin. The masses of Taiwan believers continue to visit ancestral temples on the mainland to exchange incense, worship their ancestors and seek their roots, and pray for peace. This is their spiritual need from the bottom of their hearts, and it is also a vivid portrayal of the family relations on both sides of the strait.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities have repeatedly unreasonably obstructed the normal religious and folk religious and cultural exchanges between the two sides, causing strong dissatisfaction among the vast number of palaces and worshippers on the island. The DPP authorities’ slandering of folk beliefs such as Mazu as a “United front tool” shows great disrespect for religious communities on both sides of the strait and blasphemies against folk beliefs such as Mazu.