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"Blessed Land Cave Heaven" Traditional Culture Study Tour (4)

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Mazu culture is the core component of Quanzhou's marine culture. Under the leadership of the research mentor, the research partners walked into the Tianhou Temple to interpret the Mazu culture, inherit the marine culture, and carry forward the traditional culture.

"Blessed Land Cave Heaven" Traditional Culture Study Tour (4)

Tianhou Temple is located at No. 1 Tianhou Road, Nanmen, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, and was founded in the second year of the Song Dynasty (1196). In July 2021, Tianhou Temple was selected as a heritage site of "Quanzhou: World Marine Trade Center of Song and Yuan China" as a world heritage site on the World Heritage List.

According to the study instructor, Mazu's original name was Lin Mo, and he was born on the 23rd day of the third lunar month in the first year of Song Jianlong (960). Mazu, also known as the Heavenly Concubine, the Queen of Heaven, and the Virgin of Heaven. Mazu took the sea as his companion all his life, dedicated to the sea, dedicated to the sea, after the ascension to heaven, he still repeatedly appeared and guarded the fishermen, and the Mazu faith has a history of more than a thousand years.

In many film and television dramas, Mazu appeared at the age of 15. She is beautiful and moving, talented, determined, simple and kind, strong in character, courageous and knowledgeable, clear in love and hatred, inspired by the gods, possessed of spiritual powers, enlightened by secret methods, strong in magic, and resourceful. Throughout her life, she has taken it as her duty to help the world in need, to protect the country and shelter the people, to spread benevolence and love with the heart of the most good and the most beautiful, to save the suffering and save the difficulties, and to bravely and tenaciously not fear violence, to lower demons and voldemorts, to punish evil and promote goodness, and to eliminate violence and peace. Whenever the sea distressed called her name, she flew in red to save the life of the people, and finally sacrificed her life at the age of 28 in a war and a disaster. After her death, she ascended to heaven and became a god, combining humanity, divinity and spirituality, specializing in the responsibility of sea rescue, and becoming the supreme navigation goddess in the minds of Chinese people at home and abroad. From man to god to eternity, legends about her have formed a widespread and far-reaching belief and culture for thousands of years.

Mazu culture is a general term for the material and spiritual wealth left over from the process of respecting and believing in Mazu by working people for thousands of years, and is one of the important cultural treasures of the Chinese nation. Mazu culture originated in the Song Dynasty, became in the Yuan, flourished in the Ming Dynasty, flourished in the Qing Dynasty, prospered in modern times, and Mazu culture has become an important part of China's marine folk culture.

"Blessed Land Cave Heaven" Traditional Culture Study Tour (4)

At present, there are tens of thousands of Mazu temples in 46 countries and regions around the world, and more than 300 million people believe in Mazu. In the 1980s, the relevant United Nations agencies awarded Mazu the title of "Goddess of Peace". On September 30, 2009, mazu customs and customs were officially listed by UNESCO as the intangible cultural heritage of humanity, becoming the first world heritage site in the country and the common spiritual wealth of all mankind.

"Blessed Land Cave Heaven" Traditional Culture Study Tour (4)

Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles. In both China and the world, the great academic forerunners advocated study tours, and Confucius traveled around the world as an example.

Zi Yue: Learn and learn from time to time, don't you also say? Have friends from afar, are you happy?

The research partners gathered at the Quanzhou Confucian Temple and the Xuegong To pay homage to the Wanshi Master's Table, study the highest school, and interpret Confucian culture.

The research tutor said that the Quanzhou Confucian Temple and the Xuegong Are representative heritage elements that embody the diverse communities of the World Marine Trade Center. The Quanzhou Confucian Temple and the Xuegong Were built in 976, and the main pattern was formed in 1137. The complex sits north and faces south, the overall layout is the left and right temples, composed of the Confucian sacrificial architecture Temple group on the west side and the state-level local education architecture palace group on the east side, both groups are symmetrical courtyard layout, in addition, the two groups are also distributed around the Cai Qing Ancestral Hall, Li Wenjie Ancestral Hall and Zhuang Ji Chang Zhuangyuan Ancestral Hall that have sacrificed historical celebrities in Quanzhou since the Ming and Qing dynasties. With a construction area of more than 5,000 square meters, the building scale is the highest among the seven southeastern provinces of China. The Temple of Literature is the place where the ancient official memorial and sacrifice of Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, the Xuegong is the highest level of educational institution in ancient Quanzhou, as the center of the dissemination of Confucianism, quanzhou Confucian Temple and Xuegong is a symbol of Quanzhou's elite group including government officials and high-level intellectuals, who played an important role in the promotion and management of maritime trade in the Song and Yuan dynasties. The east venue of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala was once located in the Quanzhou Fuwen Temple, allowing global audiences to feel the charm of Quanzhou's thousand-year-old culture.

"Blessed Land Cave Heaven" Traditional Culture Study Tour (4)

Every year on September 28, the Quanzhou Fuwen Temple will worship Confucius with the highest standard "Shi Dian Li", and every year during the Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other traditional festivals of the Chinese nation, activities such as coming-of-age ceremonies and worship ceremonies will be held. Under the leadership of the research mentor, the research partners walked into the Dacheng Hall, facing the statue of Confucius in the "Master of All Ages", the thumb of the right hand pressed the thumb of the left hand, the fist of both hands, and performed the worship of the teacher: one bow, expressing admiration; two bows, thanking the teacher for cultivation; three bows, determined to study diligently.

"Blessed Land Cave Heaven" Traditional Culture Study Tour (4)

The research partners walked into the Xuegong Palace, in the Guoxue Lecture Hall, established the Cultivation of Qi Zhi, read the sages, studied the Analects and Mencius, established the direction of study and the goal of being a person, and strived to be a contemporary leader, a leader, a flower, and a Confucian culture.