Despite the shared admiration of Mazu’s qualities – the goddess attracts more than 200,000 visitors from Taiwan to Fujian’s Meizhou Island each year – she has also lately become a source ...

Could sea goddess Mazu unite atheist mainland China with believer Taiwan? Taipei is suspicious of Beijing’s efforts to attract devotees of the goddess to her mother temple but 200,000 Taiwanese ...

are said to have been where the Taoist goddess Matsu drifted ashore. We visit the islands during their Chinese New Year festivities. Far from the main island of Taiwan is a group of islands facing ...

The Grand Mazu Temple, also in Tainan, was the first temple in Taiwan. It honors Mazu, the Goddess of the Sea and arguably the most beloved deity on the island. This 340-year-old temple is not ...

Andrew Ryan boards the iconic Alishan Forest Railway and uncovers the story behind Taiwan’s best-known train station meal. He also encounters the goddess Mazu, an unlikely passenger on one of ...