What does Mazu culture mean? What is Mazu culture!
Mazu culture has been popular in the Han cultural circle for thousands of years. It is a culture with distinctive national characteristics derived from the traditional moral values and values of the Chinese nation.
At present, scholars at home and abroad generally believe that Mazu, like Guan Yu and Yue Fei, is not a fabricated idol, but a sacred historical figure who came out of the people. Her surname is Lin Mingmo, and her birth name is Lin. She lived on the 23rd day of the third lunar month in the first year of Jianlong of the Song Dynasty (960 AD) and died on the 9th day of the ninth lunar month in the fourth year of the Yongxi reign of the Song Dynasty (987 AD). She was a folk woman living on Meizhou Island in Putian, Fujian.
According to legend, on the evening of the day Mazu was born, the neighbors saw the house full of red light, which was dazzling and the fragrance lingered for a long time. He was named Lin Mo because he never cried a word from birth to the full moon. She is familiar with the nature of water and can fly across the sea with clouds and save shipwrecks. She often rescues ships that are struck by wind and rocks in the Meizhou Bay. She is good at observing the sky, predicting weather changes, and can inform shipowners in advance whether they can sail. She also studies medicine intensively. , can use herbal medicine to treat people's diseases, save people, prevent epidemics and reduce disasters.
Her ambition is to be compassionate throughout her life and take it as her own responsibility to save the world and save people, promote good and eliminate evil. Therefore, she is determined not to marry, and even her parents have to obey her wishes. At the age of 28, on the day before the Double Ninth Festival, Lin Mo said goodbye to his family and went straight to the top of Meifeng, where he turned into a streak of white gas and shot up into the sky. From then on, the villagers often saw her appearing, sitting cross-legged among the clouds and mist, or flying on the sea in red clothes, rescuing fishermen in distress. So they built a temple at the place where she ascended to heaven, and respectfully called her "Mazu". Worship. There is also a saying among the people that "Lin Mo died unfortunately while rescuing a shipwreck."