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　　Hello everyone! Welcome to Meizhou Island National Tourism Resort, which isknown as "Mazu holy land, pearl of the sea". My name is __, and I'm the tourguide of this scenic spot. First of all, I'd like to introduce the basicsituation of Meizhou Island.

　　Meizhou Island is located in the northern half of Meizhou Bay mouth, 42kilometers away from Putian City. It is called Meizhou because it is locatedbetween the sea and the land and is shaped like an eyebrow. It is 9.6 km longfrom north to South and 1.3 km wide from east to west, covering an area of about16 square kilometers, with a population of 38000. The island is denselyforested, with numerous harbors, winding coastlines, continuous beaches andbeautiful scenery. The high-quality beach around the island is more than 20kilometers long and can be built as a bathing beach. It is an ideal resort.

　　Meizhou Bay is adjacent to the Chinese Taiwan Strait in the southeast, and is faraway from Chinese Taiwan. Mazu on the island is famous at home and abroad. Mazu'soriginal name was Lin Mo Niang (960-987 A.D.), because she was born to the fullmoon and never cried, her father named her "Mo". She was smart when she wasyoung. She could recite sutras at the age of 8, interpret texts at the age of10, learn Taoism at the age of 13, and cross the sea on waves at the age of 16.On the ninth day of September in the fourth year of Yongxi of Song Dynasty, whenLin Mo Niang was 28 years old, she bid farewell to her family and naturalizedand ascended to heaven on Meiyu peak of Meizhou Island. In memory of her, peopleset up a temple beside the "historical site of rising to heaven" on Meizhou peakand worshipped her as the goddess of the sea, goddess of the dragon, goddess ofthe sea, etc. In Song Huizong's time, Mazu was granted the title of "Shunjilady", which was the first time that the court praised Mazu. In the laterdynasties, the imperial court granted her such honorary titles as "Princess ofheaven", "Queen of heaven" and "virgin of heaven".

　　Meizhou Island is the hometown of Mazu. The Mazu temple here is known as"Meizhou Temple of Tianhou Palace". The temple was founded in the fourth year ofYongxi of Song Dynasty (987 A.D.), that is, the same year when Lin Mo Niangdied. At the beginning, it was only a few rafters. Later, it was expanded insuccessive dynasties and became more and more magnificent. Zheng He, a famousnavigator of the Ming Dynasty, made seven voyages to the Western Ocean. He cameback and said, "God shows his holiness on the sea." before his seventh voyages,he was ordered to come to Meizhou Island to preside over special Royalceremonies and expand temples. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the QingDynasty, general Shi langzou said, "the sea was aided by God", and he wasordered to expand it. At present, Mazu temple has been renovated and carved withnew buildings. It has become a holy land for Chinese seafarers all over theworld to worship and for compatriots at home and abroad. Mazu temple, Tianfeipalace and Tianhou Palace are all over Chinese Taiwan, and , as well asHaikou docks and inland ports in mainland China. They are also distributed inSoutheast Asia and 17 countries in the world, such as Japan, Korea, India, theUnited States, France, Denmark, Brazil and Argentina. It is necessary that Mazubelief exists where there are Chinese. In Chinese Taiwan, there are more than 5000 Mazutemples, large and small, and more than 14 million Mazu believers. On March 23of the lunar calendar, Mazu's birthday is full of people inside and outside thetemple.

　　In the book of songs, a love song says, "the so-called Yi people are in thewater.". That is to say, the woman I miss lives on the Youzhu, which is full ofwater and grass. Strange to say, the girls on Meizhou Island are very smart,white and tender. They are not as "swarthy" as ordinary people on the beach. Theold saying "beauty comes from Meizhou" is still popular today. Whether it isworthy of the name or not will soon be seen.

　　Meizhou Island is famous for its cultural landscape and beautiful mountainsand rivers. In the Ming Dynasty, Qin Bangqi wrote a poem when he was "watchingthe waves" on the island: "the scenery of Meizhou is better than Penglai in theQing Dynasty, looking around Cangjiang River and returning to the sky. The moonis full, the islands are still, the tide is coming, and the silver house is infull swing. The beautiful scenery of Lanhua peak, the exquisite rocks and thepiles in the clouds are all wonderful.

　　Meizhou Island is only 72 nautical miles away from Chinese Taiwan. It traditionallylives by fishing. Nowadays, with the development of tourism industry, especiallyin 1992, the State Council approved the establishment of Meizhou Island NationalTourism Resort. The tourism economy of Meizhou Island has been injected with newvitality, which has greatly promoted the economic and social development of theresort.

　　Mazu culture in Meizhou Island is unique. It is a part of Chinesetraditional culture and a wonderful flower in traditional culture. Mazu culturehas rich connotation and extensive extension, involving religious history, folkcustom history, navigation history, science and technology history, architecturehistory, literature history, art history, overseas Chinese history, Sino foreignrelations history and many other disciplines. It is a comprehensive subject withmulti-disciplinary significance. Specifically, it includes architecture,sculpture, painting, calligraphy, poetry, couplets, cultural relics, folkculture, fairy tales, folk traditions, religious beliefs and so on. Interestedfriends can conduct in-depth research.

　　Meizhou Island folk customs and Mazu are inextricably linked. Out ofworship for Mazu, the residents of the island hold grand temple fairs every yearon March 23 and September 9, the birthday and ascension day of Mazu, attractinga large number of believers at home and abroad, especially in Chinese Taiwan andSoutheast Asia. Temple fairs hold large-scale ceremonies. Mazu, like the YellowEmperor and Confucius, enjoyed the imperial edict of spring and autumn. Mazuworship has a long history. It is said that the court began to worship Mazu inthe 26th year of Shaoxing in Song Dynasty (1156 A.D.), which was revisedrepeatedly in the yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, forming the annual spring andAutumn Festival ritual and incorporated into the national ritual. After thereplacement of the Qing Empire by the Republic of China, official ceremonieswere suspended. In 1994, Mazu Cultural Tourism Festival repeated the ceremony.In recent years, through continuous modification and improvement, Mazu Festivalhas become one of the three major festivals in China, along with offeringsacrifices to the Yellow River and Confucius. "Meizhou women" and "Hui'an women"have their own merits. "Meizhou women" clothing is one of the most distinctivefolk customs in the resort.

　　The coastal scenery of Meizhou Island is beautiful and interesting. Thecoastline of Meizhou Island is 30 kilometers long, and there are 13 bay beachesalong the coastline, among which jiubaolan beach at the southwest end is themost spectacular. Although the peaks on the island are not high, there are manystrange peaks and rocks everywhere. The stones are famous for their "strangenessand interest", mainly concentrated in the scenic area of ewei mountain andriwenkeng.

　　Meizhou Island has a close relationship with Chinese Taiwan. Tourism to Chinese Taiwan isanother characteristic of Meizhou Island. There are more than 3000 Mazu Fen Lingtemples in Chinese Taiwan, with about 16 million believers, accounting for more than 70%of the total population of Chinese Taiwan. During the Mazu Millennium sacrifice in 1987,more than 50000 Chinese Taiwan compatriots gathered on Meizhou Island for a pilgrimage,which set off an upsurge of people to people exchanges between Meizhou andChinese Taiwan,

　　Since 1995, about 100000 Chinese Taiwan compatriots have come to Meizhou Mazutemple every year to pay homage to their ancestors and offer incense. It is theplace where the mainland attracts the most Chinese Taiwan compatriots. On May 6, 19,Mazu believers in the South Tiangong Temple of su'ao, Ilan County, Chinese Taiwanorganized 24 fishing boats and 224 people to make a direct voyage to MeizhouIsland for worship, which was the first direct voyage on both sides of theStrait after the founding of new China. Since then, dozens of Chinese Taiwan fishingboats have sailed directly to Meizhou Island every year, forming the reality of"no official access, no private access, no public access and no secret access"between the two sides of the Strait. On October 8, 19, LAN palace, Dajia Town,Chinese Taiwan organized thousands of pilgrims to escort Chinese Taiwan Mazu to the ancestraltemple, setting a precedent for Chinese Taiwan Mazu to visit the mainland for the firsttime in 40 years; In January 1997, with the support of the central government,Mazu Jinshen of Meizhou successfully toured Chinese Taiwan for 102 days, touring thewhole island and paying homage to more than 10 million believers. It was calledby Chinese Taiwan media as "a journey back to the century" and became the top ten newsin Chinese Taiwan at that time, causing a huge sensation at home and abroad; In July20__, LAN palace of Dajia town organized a large-scale pilgrimage group,including more than 20__ believers and 19 Chinese Taiwan news units, to visit theisland, creating the largest number of cross-strait non-governmental exchanges;On May 8, 20__, at the invitation of Kinmen, Mazu Jinshen successfully touredKinmen, setting a precedent for Mazu Jinshen's direct sea cruise to Chinese Taiwan,opening direct routes from Meizhou Island to Kinmen and Wuqiu Island, settingfive "firsts" in the history of cross-strait non-governmental exchanges. As Mazuculture plays an irreplaceable special role in the work of Chinese Taiwan, it has beenattached great importance by the Central Committee and leaders at all levels.When inspecting Fujian, more than ten party members, including __, Li Peng, QianQichen, Li Tieying and Wu Xueqian, all stressed the need to do a good job inMazu's articles and develop cross-strait relations. Some even went to the islandto inspect and guide the work in person.

　　On March 4, 20__, Meizhou Island was rated as a national AAAA tourist area.In addition, Meizhou Island is also one of the top 100 counties (districts) forgreening in China, one of the advanced counties (districts) for afforestation inChina, one of the demonstration sites of civilized scenic spots in FujianProvince, and one of the top 10 counties (districts) for beautiful environmentin Fujian Province. Greening has become another beautiful scenery of MeizhouIsland.

　　Meizhou Island is a beautiful island with boundless scenery. When you climbMeifeng, you can see mountains in the sea and the sea outside. The mountains andthe sea are linked together. The sea and the sky are the same color. It's afairyland on earth. There are more than ten scenic spots on the island, mainlyconcentrated in three large areas, namely "one center, two basic points". "Onecenter" is Mazu Worship Center Meizhou Mazu temple. The "two basic points" aree-Wei mountain scenic spot and jiubaolan golden beach. Next, let's visit Mazutemple in Meizhou. Mazu temple is planned to be divided into three axes of"East, West and South". At present, it has invested more than 100 million yuanto build two axes of West and south. The West axis is 500 meters long and 100meters wide, with a total investment of more than 50 million yuan. The buildingsinclude memorial archway, Mountain Gate, imperial edict gate, bell and DrumTower, Prince's hall, dressing house, Tianhou palace, Shengtian tower, etc. Theyenter the Mazu Cultural Park. There are two girls standing at the entrance ofthe park, namely "Meizhou women". They warmly welcome you to visit Mazu CulturalPark. "Meizhou woman" is wearing a sail style bun, sky blue clothes on her upperbody and red and black pants. This is the unique dress of "Meizhou women" in thepast, with profound implication. Along the steps, looking up, standing on thetop of the peak is the landmark building of Meizhou Island - Mazu stone statue.The base of the statue is 14.35 meters high, and the whole statue is carved with365 pieces of granite. It means that Mazu protects Meizhou (14.35 squarekilometers) 365 days a year with smooth weather, peace and happiness, and thewhole family of Mazu believers. There are 30 groups of Mazu story groupsculpture garden behind the stone statue. Each group of group sculpture tells abeautiful and moving legend. After visiting the group sculptures, we can seethat a beautiful building built on the seashore is Mazu stele forest, which iscomposed of a main stele and 99 auxiliary steles. It is divided into threecategories: natural, antique and artistic creativity. It gathers theinscriptions of feudal emperors and the recitation of Mazu by literati. It alsogathers the efforts of 100 famous calligraphers and celebrities at home andabroad. With novel conception and unique style, the forest of Steles has aunique cultural taste and artistic attainments. After seeing the forest ofSteles, you come to the south axis. This is the new hall of ancestral temple,which was newly planned and constructed in 1998. It is a five entrance Templestyle imitation Song Dynasty complex, 323 meters long and 99 meters wide. Itmeans to commemorate the birthday of Mazu, March 23 of the lunar calendar, andthe ninth day of September of the lunar calendar. The whole project, with aninvestment of more than 80 million yuan and a total construction area of 14268square meters, has 12 projects, which were completed and opened to the outsideworld in October 20__. The new hall is built close to the mountain and ismagnificent, known as "Potala Palace on the sea". On the left side of Mazu newhall is Mazu culture exhibition hall, which is divided into two parts: "FujianChinese Taiwan exchange" and "folk customs Exhibition". It uses more than 400 photos andmore than 300 objects to vividly show the situation of cross-strait exchangesand folk customs with local characteristics. Tin Hau square is also a landmarkbuilding on Meizhou Island.

　　"Two basic points" is one of the key contents of today's tour. Take a busfrom zumiao along Meizhou avenue for about 20 minutes to jiubaolan golden beach.The beach is about 3 kilometers long and 200 meters wide. The beach is flat,fine, soft and clean. It can be called "the first in the world". Yongchuangtourism and holiday center has been built here, which can provide you withrecreational activities such as motorboat, beach volleyball, horse racing, etc.it is an ideal place for summer tourists.

　　Take a bus from golden beach along the South Ring Road for about 10 minutesto the scenic spot of e'wei mountain. The scenic spot is located in thesouthernmost tip of Meizhou Island, facing the sea three times, with an altitudeof 65 meters. Its central park, e-Wei God Stone Park, covers an area of 32hectares. The park is like a large-scale natural stone landscape, with "strangerocks, rocks, cliffs, faults, caves and canyons". The whole park consists offive parts, namely "jinshan'ao", "Dongli Dongwai", "Haimen", "Shizishan" and"shenshigang", including dozens of scenic spots, such as "turtle pilgrimage","double toad tryst", "Mazu library" and "Dragon Cave listening to tide". As longas you are interested and good at fantasy, you can see what looks like and whatyou want. Here you can enjoy the fantastic peaks and rocks, which are lifelikeand vivid. You can enjoy the beauty of the sea and the sky, the Lusha and thefish sails. You can enjoy the thrilling waves, the flying flowers and the jadesplashing. You can also listen to the fishing boat singing at night, which islike a poem and a song. Adjacent to the bathing beach, music leisure square andchildren's paradise, visitors can enjoy playing and leisure. It is an idealparadise for tourism and popular science exploration.

　　Meizhou Island is also a good place for seafood. It is rich in grouper,shrimp, snails, oysters, crabs and other seafood. It is delicious, fresh,delicate and delicious.

　　Ladies and gentlemen, we are here today. You are welcome to leave me yourvaluable opinions. May the charming scenery of Meizhou Island leave a deepimpression on you. If you have the opportunity, you are welcome to come hereoften!