 Lugang
Mazu Temples
Ha my camera is bigger than yours. It takes in so
much more history.
This is Lugang, Zhanghua, possibly Michael��s favorite
town in Taiwan.
Well, one of them. But Lugang is really where I fell
in love with Taiwan. This town is so historic, and
it��s full of beautiful temples.
Historic is the word, so today we��re visiting Tianhou
Temple, a Mazu temple that��s about 290 years old and
the center of worship in Lugang.
Wow that sounds wonderful.
This Mazu temple was built in 1725, when trade between
Taiwan and China picked up. Mazu the goddess, she
is the protector of people who live near the sea,
or who have to sail on the sea, for example, fishermen.
But before she became a goddess, she was a real person
- a young woman who threw herself into the sea.
I know this story. Her name was Lin Mo-niang, right?
She threw herself into the sea to save her father.
That��s so different from the way we would think about
it where I come from. And then even more strangely,
she became a goddess of the sea, and not a goddess
of filial piety.
Come to think of it, yeah huh. But in any case, people
worshipped her, made statues of her, built temples
for her, and there is this one saying where in the
original Mazu temple in Fujian, there were six Mazu
statues, one came to Taiwan with the troops of the
Qing dynasty - it��s the one you see here - and the
five that remained in China were actually destroyed
before or during the Cultural Revolution. So out of
the six, this is the only one left in the world.
Michael, there are a ton of historical temples in
Lugang, but next I want to show you a new one.
A new one? What kind of temple?
Another Mazu temple.
Can��t get too many of those.
Lugang makes me poetic. I've been coming here 25 years
and I love this place. For me, Lugang mirrors the
changes that I see in Taiwan since I��ve been here.
It started with oxen and wooden carts and now it��s
LED��s and glass, it��s really amazing. I��ll tell you
one thing that hasn��t changed - the warmth and friendship
of the people of Lugang.
And that��s why you should come.
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