On the 3rd, on the third day of the first month of the lunar year of renyin, the cross-strait Wuxi Online Offline Communication Information Technology Co.Ltd(300959) new year prayer ceremony of “paying homage to Mazu and sharing peace” was held simultaneously on Meizhou Island, Putian, Fujian and Yunlin, Taiwan, the “hometown of Mazu”.
Lin jinzan, chairman of Mazu temple in Meizhou, paid a visit to Mazu with Zhang Kezhong, chairman of Mailiao gongfan palace in Yunlin, Taiwan, through video connection, and prayed for peace and health and long-lasting friendship.
At about 9 a.m. that day, Lin jinzan, chairman of the board of directors of Meizhou Mazu ancestral temple, led all the directors and supervisors of the ancestral temple to interact with Zhang Kezhong, chairman of Mailiao gongfan palace in Yunlin, Taiwan, and all the members of the Management Committee of Mailiao gongfan Palace on the south axis of the ancestral temple. The two sides exchanged new year blessings, talked to Mazu and had a good chat with each other.
At the ceremony, he Dahuang, chairman of Xingang Fengtian palace in Chiayi, Taiwan, Zeng Jilian, chairman of datianhou palace in Tainan, Taiwan, Wu Wenhui, vice chairman of Daliao Pratt Whitney palace in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and other representatives of Mazu cultural institutions also sent congratulatory videos for the event.
At about 10 a.m., the salute rang out. Lin jinzan, chairman of the board of directors of Mazu temple in Meizhou, hit the drum three times, followed by 11 drummers beating the drum. After the Spring Festival beating ceremony, chairman Lin jinzan, together with Zhang Kezhong, chairman of Mailiao gongfan palace in Yunlin, Taiwan, Li Murong, representative of Taiwan businessmen staying in Putian for the new year and President of Putian Taiwan Businessmen Association, Cai Zhichang, representative of Taiwan villagers staying in Meizhou Island for the new year, Lin Jianping, Gao Yuming and pan Tianzhu, representatives of villagers in Meizhou Island, Cai Fuquan, head of the rotating blessing of Meizhou Mazu temple, and Zhu Shanxin Dade, More than 300 people at home and abroad, including all directors and supervisors of the ancestral temple and the rotating Fushou, followed the ritual system, prepared drum music, bathed their hands and held incense, presented Mazu with the traditional “three offering ceremony” and knelt and kowtowed to Mazu.
Since 2005, the Mazu temple in Meizhou has offered sacrifices to heaven and prayed for the new year, and held the Yiyou new year praying ceremony for the first time. On the third day of the first lunar month in 2009, the activity of praying for the new year was officially named and became a fixed activity of the ancestral temple every year, which continues to this day.
Lin jinzan said that in the new year, the ancestral temple will continue to play the role of Mazu culture as a bridge and link between the two sides of the Strait, do a good job in the folk cultural exchanges between Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao focusing on cross-strait exchanges, give full play to the role of Mazu Culture as a common cultural memory of the people of countries and regions along the maritime Silk Road, and work with the majority of Mazu admirers to write a new chapter of Mazu culture.
It is reported that this is not the first time that Mazu ancestral temple in Meizhou has carried out online new year praying activities with Taiwan temple. On February 14, 2021, on the third day of the first month of the lunar new year, the ancestral temple joined hands with Xuanqing temple in Taichu, Hsinchu, Taiwan to carry out Wuxi Online Offline Communication Information Technology Co.Ltd(300959) new year praying activities with the theme of “praying for blessings on both sides of the Strait and embarking on a new journey together”, and the response was enthusiastic. (end)
