Both Sides of the Strait The origin and Dissemination of Mazu Culture

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201215.530How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mazu culture, Meizhou Island, cross strait integration and development, cultural communication activities

Abstract

Mazu culture is widely spread in China’s coastal areas, which is their traditional folk belief. Mazu culture originated in Song Dynasty, formed in Yuan Dynasty, flourished in Ming Dynasty, flourished in Qing Dynasty and flourished in modern times. Mazu culture embodies a special feature of Chinese marine culture. Mazu temple in Meizhou is the first Mazu temple in the world. Therefore, Mazu Culture on both sides of the Taiwan Strait originated from Meizhou Island in Fujian Province, and then came to Taiwan with immigrants and spread and developed in Taiwan. In this study, we mainly introduce Meizhou Island, the birthplace of Mazu culture, as well as the activities on the spread of Mazu culture held by both sides of the Strait.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wei-Long Huang
AU  - Syping Chen
AU  - Shili Huang
AU  - Yongsheng Xiong
AU  - Dandan Huang
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/17
TI  - Both Sides of the Strait The origin and Dissemination of Mazu Culture
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 703
EP  - 705
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.530
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.530
ID  - Huang2020
ER  -