Mazu's hometown Mazu's hometown, the birthplace of Mazu culture

1. Where is Mazu's hometown? 2. Does Mazu really exist in history? Where does she live? 3. Where is the birthplace of Mazu? 4. The birthplace of Mazu 5. Where is the birthplace of Mazu culture? Where is Mazu's hometown? Where is Mazu's hometown in Meizhou Bay, Putian City, Fujian Province?

Mazu's former residence Mazu's hometown is located in Ligang Village, Shanting Township, Zone C, North Shore Economic Development Zone (formerly Zhongmen Town, Putian County). The former residence is the traditional mansion structure of Putian, Mazu's hometown, with a quadrangle structure, which is divided into one entrance (that is, three compartments), two entrances (that is, five compartments), east-west corridors, gatehouses and walls. [1] Mazu lives here with her parents, brother and sister-in-law. Mazu's former residence was built many times in Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. In the early Qing dynasty, the Qing government implemented the policy of "separatist regime". Mazu's former residence was burned together with the "out-of-bounds" houses in Putian, and it was never rebuilt after the heavy boundary. The existing building was built in Taiwan Province Province on June 5438+0, 2006 (April 25th of the lunar calendar).

Interior of Mazu Former Residence (4 photos)

Mazu Tempel 18 Mazu Friendship Association raises reconstruction funds. After reconstruction, Mazu's former residence, Mazu's hometown, imitates the architecture of the Song Dynasty, with a building area of 800 square meters, maintaining the quaint style of Mazu's former residence in the Song Dynasty and the characteristics of southern architecture. Together with the Tianhou Temple in Xianliang Port, it has become a holy place for Mazu Tempel ancestors, gods and Mazu to pray for peace all over the world.

The former residence of Mazu now stands on the left side of Tianhou Ancestral Temple in Xianlianggang, a provincial cultural relics protection unit in Fujian Province with a brand-new look. The former residence has been restored to Mazu's living room, including Mazu bedroom, brother and sister bedroom, weaving machine room, pharmacy room, etc., which has become another tourist attraction in Li Gang Village, Mazu's hometown.

Does Mazu really exist in history? Where does Mazu live? Personally, Mazu really exists in history. Putian is considered as the hometown of Mazu culture.

Mazu, also known as the Mother of Notre Dame, Queen, Tian Fei and Meizhou, is a belief in Poseidon centered on the southeast coast of China. It is said that the subject of this belief evolved from real people. Through the investigation of Mazu's life, we can see that Mazu belief originated from folklore, and finally formed a universal Mazu belief through the apotheosis and historization of legends.

In June 2009, Mazu belief was selected into the UNESCO representative list of human intangible cultural heritage.

Mazu originated from the belief in wizards in China's Fujian-Vietnam region. Mazu absorbed other folk beliefs (clairvoyance, clairvoyance) during its development. Since the Northern Song Dynasty, Mazu has been deified. With the expansion of influence, she also included Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. Finally, Mazu gradually stood out from many sea gods and was called Mazu (the local people's honorific title for female ancestors). After the sacrifice, people built temples, and Song Gaozong was awarded the title of Lady Hui Ling and became a god recognized by the court. It has become an important part of Fujian-Taiwan marine culture and East Asian marine culture.

Mazu belief spread from Fujian to Zhejiang, Taiwan Province, Guangdong, Japan, Ryukyu and Southeast Asia (such as Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam). Mazu Tempel or Tianhou Palace is located in the coastal areas of Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing, Shandong and Liaoning.

Mazu is an ancient Han folk god, but why can her spirit be recognized, respected and praised by so many people inside and outside Shanghai? This is because Mazu embodies the lofty spiritual realm and traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. Mazu prototype, as a folk fisherman of Han nationality, is brave and kind, honest and kind, helping the poor, protecting the safe navigation of Chinese and foreign merchant ships and benefiting the people. These are all promising. Mazu has done a lot of good things that benefit the people and is naturally respected by many people at home and abroad.

Putian is the hometown of Mazu culture. You can also see Putian signs such as "Puyang Family" and "Putian Former Residence" on the plaque at the entrance of Chaoshan residential building. Hainan and Putian have more than 90 ancestors. Putian adhered to the tradition of hometown and advocated virtue, which influenced these immigrants. In addition, the strong love for hometown makes Mazu worship spread all over the country, even overseas.

Where is Mazu's birthplace? It's Meizhou island

1, the earliest historical records show that Mazu was born in Meizhou Island.

According to 66 known historical records, the earliest historical records unanimously confirmed that Mazu was born in Meizhou Island, Putian County. The historical materials of the Song Dynasty recorded that Mazu was from Meizhou. For example, in the twentieth year of Shaoxing in Song Dynasty (1 150), Liao Pengfei said that Mazu was "Lin, a native of Meizhou Island." This temple record can be said to be the earliest and most detailed historical data of Mazu.

In the second year of Jiading in Song Dynasty (1209), Li called Mazu "the God of Meizhou and the God of Lin" in "Biyi in Puyang". In the third year of Song Shaoding (1230), Ding Bogui said in the "Shengfei Temple of Shunzhi": "The daughter of Meizhou Forest in Shenyang." In the fifth year of Song Baoyu (1257), Huang called Shunji Temple "the daughter of Lin's Meizhou" in Xian Xi Lu. In the first year of Song Kaiqing (1259), Li Chou's father wrote in Linghuifei Temple: "Lin Fei was born in Meizhou, the sea of Puji". Liu song kezhuang mentioned in the poem "white lake temple" that "a concubine and a woman are fragrant from Meizhou."

According to Liu Zhi of Song Dynasty, from Liao Pengfei Temple in the 20th year of Shaoxing in Song Dynasty (1 150) to Li Ugly Father Temple in the first year of Kaiqing in Song Dynasty (1259), it is as long as 109. All records say that Mazu was born in Meizhou. The above records are not far from the Mazu era and can't be wrong.

The same is true of the four records of the Yuan Dynasty. For example, in Huang Siru's Annotations, Yuan Huangyuan wrote to the newly-built Fan Li Temple in Shengdun Shunji Temple: "According to old books, there are shrines in Lin concubine's home and Meizhou's hometown, that is, places of worship." The so-called "hometown" is my hometown, which also shows that Mazu was born in Meizhou Island.

Among the 56 kinds of records in Ming and Qing Dynasties, except 1 Preface to the Day after Sealing compiled by Lin Qingbiao in 778, there are 55 kinds of records that Mazu was born in Meizhou. "Quanzhou Fuzhi" said: "God, whose real name is Lin, lives in Meizhou Island, Puyang." Huang Ming and Zhao Zhong's "Eight Min Tong Zhi Tian Fei Temple" records: "On Meizhou Island, the fish river in Xin 'anli, its god is Hong Ren Puji Tian Fei, and this temple covers its former residence." In Xinghua Fu Hu Zhiji Meizhou Island, it is said: "Meizhou is in the sea, opposite the pole, and Lin Lingnv, today's princess, was born on it. "Lu Yijing Ba Min Tong Zhi": "God, whose real name is Lin, lives in Meizhou Island, Puyang." Zhang Xie's East-West Studies: "Tian Fei lives in Puzhi, Meizhou Island. "

Yonghe said in "God": "According to legend, God is the daughter of Dongluo Village, Putian-Meizhou." Liu Youcheng's Preface to the Temple of Heaven in the Qing Dynasty wrote: "God is a woman in the forest. Live in Ruyi Island. " Yang Qingjun's "A Brief Introduction to Meizhou Island" said: "Meizhou is in the sea, facing the pole, and Lin Lingnv, now called Tian Fei, was born on it." Wang Li's * * County Records: "Meizhou Island in Putian after childbirth."

According to legend, Mazu was born in Xianliang Port (now Li Gang Village, Shanting Township, Xiuyu District), mainly based on Lin Qingbiao, a Confucian Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Hui 'an County, edited during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty (1778). Cha Lin's Biographies of Tian Fei's Clear Tables and Days after Heaven were copied from the Record of Mr. Tian Fei compiled by abbot Zhao Cheng of Meizhou Tianhou Palace in the late Ming Dynasty. The difference is that the former records that Bao Jigong, Mazu's great-grandfather, "abandoned his official position and retired to Meizhou Island", while the latter changed it to "abandoned his official position and retired to Yu Haibin Xianliang Port". The contents of the two books are exactly the same in the section "The Rise of Mei Yu". In Biography of Tian Fei's Birthday, it was written that Princess Sui climbed the highest point in Mei Feng, but Lin Qingbiao changed it to "Princess Sui crossed the sea to climb the highest point in Mei Feng" in Records of Tianhou Palace. Obviously, Lin Qingbiao, a man of A Qing Dynasty, tampered with the account of the previous monk. However, there are still people who believe that Mazu's former residence is in Xianliang Port on the grounds of "crossing the sea". Obviously, this defect is too obvious to stand scrutiny.

2. Meizhou Island still retains ancient stone carvings and Ming Dynasty stone tablets in Mazu's hometown.

Up to now, on the cliff in the north of Hou Shi Natural Village in Caidong Village, Meizhou Island (formerly known as Dongluo Village and Shanglin Village, Shanglin Palace, Guanyin Hall and Mazu's former residence remain), the ancient stone carving of "Tian Fei's hometown" erected by Zhao Cheng and monks in the late Ming Dynasty and the stone tablet of "Tian Fei's ancestral trace and place name Shanglin" are still preserved. This is an important proof that Mazu was born in Meizhou Island.

3. A "Longjing" in the harbor doesn't conform to the legend of Mazu's "charming by peeping into the well".

There is an ancient well built in the Song Dynasty near Tianhou Ancestral Hall, and the words "Xian Chun Bing Yin (1266), Chen Geng Masons' August Tour" are engraved on the well side. Some people think that this is Mazu's ancient well. However, Mazu was born in the first year of Stegosaurus in the Northern Song Dynasty (960) and died in the fourth year of Song Yongxi (987). Masons swam to the well to build it in 1266, 239 years after Mazu's death. Obviously, this well is inconsistent with the year when Mazu was young and was able to "look at the well with charm". In particular, the legend of "seeing an image from a well" first appeared in Tian Fei Vision Record published by Zhao Cheng, a monk in the late Ming Dynasty. It is mentioned for the first time in the book: "When I was young, I wandered around with a group of women and dressed myself in a well. Suddenly I saw a man of God holding a bronze symbol, so I went to the well without doubt. Since then, curses can ward off evil spirits, and my powers have become more and more mysterious. I often wander around the room, talking about good and bad luck. " This legend was not recorded before the end of Ming Dynasty. This fact shows that the legend of Mazu's "looking at the well like an elephant" only appeared in the late Ming Dynasty. The well-preserved port of Xianliang has nothing to do with Mazu. Of course, it cannot be proved that Mazu was born in Xianliang Port.

4. Building a shrine with women as ancestors is inconsistent with the traditional feudal concept in China.

Taking Mazu as the Lin clan and Mazu Tempel as the ancestral hall is inconsistent with the traditional concept of feudal society in China. The feudal society in China paid attention to the patrilineal inheritance system, which should be handed down from generation to generation and from sons to grandchildren. As paternal ancestors, they are all male ancestors, not female ancestors, especially unmarried Mazu. How can they be the ancestors of her family? Of course, this cannot be established.

5. Mazu ethnic group in Meizhou Island moved to Hong Kong in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In the ninth year of Ming Dynasty (1444), the genealogy of Nanzhulin in Putian recorded the former residence of Mazu as follows: "My father lives in Meizhou Island and is also inspected by the government. The princess was born on the island, and the soil was full of flowers. Brother town, descendants of the Chinese people. The princess's base and ancestral temple still exist. At the beginning of the flood, Zhao moved to the shore. Today, Xianliang Port is in Xin 'anli, just behind it. According to the Records of Hongzhi and Huangxinghua in Ming Dynasty, Meizhou Island "has a large number of residents since the Song and Yuan Dynasties". Hong Chu, in order to seduce the trouble place left by bandits, Song Beidu directed Yi Li to move to the mainland, and the island was empty. "According to these two historical records, residents surnamed Lin in Xianliang Port moved from Meizhou Island.

Since Hongwu moved to the capital in the early years of Ming Dynasty, a descendant of Mazu's family in Meizhou Island has settled in Xianliang Port, which is separated from Meizhou by water. There is a magnificent so-called "Tianhou Palace" in Xianliang Port. According to local people, the temple was built in the Song Dynasty, but there is no historical data to test. It was only in the 19th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (142 1) that local officials heard that the court ordered eunuchs to worship in Hong Kong. At this time, it has been decades since Meizhou resident Lin moved to Xianliang Port. There are two stone tablets in the temple, one is "the emblem of praise and seal in past dynasties" and the other is "the reconstruction of Tianhou Palace". Rebuilding the stone tablet only records the process of rebuilding the temple during the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty (1785), but does not mention the architectural age of the original temple.

Anyone who knows the history of China knows that it was not until the Ming Dynasty that the imperial court allowed the people to build ancestral temples, that is, ancestral temples, and allowed the ancestral tablets scattered in the shrines behind various ancestral temples to be moved to the newly-built ancestral temples. Mazu, who moved from Meizhou Island to Hong Kong, built the "Lin Ancestral Hall" in the Ming Dynasty to worship his ancestors. Later, influenced by Mazu, "Lin's Ancestral Hall" was changed to "Tianhou Ancestral Hall". This practice is the same as that of coastal fishermen who build Mazu Tempel to worship Mazu in the host country and overseas Chinese in the host country.

After the lifting of the maritime ban by the Ming court, Meizhou residents who moved out returned to the island one after another, and the number continued to increase. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Zheng Chenggong took the islands and coastal areas in Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang as the base to organize anti-Qing and restoration. During the reign of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court also implemented the policy of forbidding the sea, ordering all the residents of coastal areas and islands to move inward for 30 miles, and the residents of Meizhou Island and Xianliang Port (Li Gang Village) moved to the Han River and other places. During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, some ethnic groups named Lin in Meizhou moved back to Meizhou Island or Xianliang Port respectively. Due to the two sea bans in history, residents of Meizhou Island moved to Li Gang and Hanjiang successively. The descendants of Mazu in Meizhou who moved to Xianliang Port gradually forgot the memory of their hometown in Meizhou and mistakenly thought that Mazu was born in Xianliang Port like them.

1992 10.04, the "Tianhou Ancestral Hall" in Xianliang Port also admitted in the note on the back of the "1992- 12" Mazu "special stamp souvenir cover issued by the post and telecommunications department:" According to historical records, the residents of Meizhou Island moved inward in the early Ming Dynasty and were descendants of Mazu family. From the Mazu Atlas co-edited by Lin Zuliang and Hong Kong people, we can know that at the end of the 20th century, some women in Xianliang Port still wore the same clothes as those in Meizhou, which is also an evidence that the descendants of Lin in Meizhou still retained Meizhou folk customs when they moved to Hong Kong.

To sum up, Mazu's great-grandfather, Lin Baoji, abandoned his official position in Caidong Village of Meizhou Island in the Five Dynasties and gave birth to Fu Lin. Fu Lin gave birth to Lin Yuan, and his words were just embarrassing. Meizhou inspector married Wang and gave birth to a boy and six girls, the youngest named Mazu. Fu Lin, Lin Yuan and Mazu were all born in Meizhou Island. Mazu Song Jianlong was born in Meizhou Island in the first year (960), and Song Yongxi died in Meizhou Island in the fourth year (987). Therefore, Meizhou Island is the birthplace of Mazu and the seat of ancestral temple.

The birthplace of Mazu Meizhou Island in Putian City, Fujian Province is the birthplace of Mazu's hometown and Mazu culture.

Mazu Mazu's hometown is the sea god believed in East Asia, Southeast Asia and other regions with the southeast coast of China as the center, and it is the god believed by boatmen, sailors, tourists, businessmen and fishermen in past dynasties. On September 30, 2009, the fourth session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage deliberated and decided to include "Mazu belief custom" in the World Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of mankind. In this way, "Mazu belief custom" has become Mazu's hometown, the first "belief custom" world heritage in China and the first world heritage in Putian, and Meizhou Island has won a world business card.

Where is the birthplace of Mazu culture? The birthplace of Mazu culture is Meizhou Island in Putian, Fujian.

"Ling Fei is a woman, and the petals from Meizhou are fragrant." Meizhou Island in Putian is the hometown of Mazu, the goddess of maritime peace, and the birthplace of Mazu culture. Mazu is a god in ancient folklore in China, and is widely believed by fishermen and boatmen along the southeast coast of China. She devoted herself to the sea all her life, doing good deeds and helping the world. Later generations summed up the Mazu spirit of "virtue, kindness and great love".

Mazu culture, with Mazu spirit as its core, is the sum of material wealth and spiritual wealth formed by people in different times in China in the process of believing in and praising Mazu, and it is an important cultural treasure of the Chinese nation. For thousands of years, Mazu culture has gone to the world with the footsteps of China people, and has become the spiritual bond and cultural memory of people of different colors, nationalities and regions.

The Development and Inheritance of Mazu Culture

Mazu, whose original name was Molinyang, was born on March 23, 960. At the age of 28, he was killed when he rescued a ship in distress at sea. Mazu Dong Xiao is familiar with astronomy, meteorology and water, and has been attached to the sea all his life. He wrote a series of love stories about the sea, which were widely circulated in later generations. After Mazu's death, emperors praised Mazu for 36 times, with titles ranging from "Madame", "Tian Fei", "Tianhou" to "Tiannv".

As one of the "three major festivals in China", Meizhou Mazu Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by the State Council in 2006. In 2009, Mazu's belief and custom was listed in the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO, which became the spiritual wealth of the whole world. In 20 16, "Give full play to the positive role of Mazu culture and other folk cultures" was written into the national "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan".

Where is Mazu's hometown, where Mazu was born? Mazu's hometown is Meizhou Island, Taiwan Province Province, China. Mazu culture itself is a belief in Poseidon centered on the southeast coast.