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Zhao Yi, a historian of the Qing Dynasty, wrote down a very interesting legend of Mazu in Southern Fujian and Taiwan. If you call the gods for help in a shipwreck and call them “Mazu”, Mazu will immediately stop applying cosmetics to save people. If she is called “heavenly Concubine”, Mazu will dress up and come to save people gracefully, so she will arrive late. Therefore, the sea is called “Mazu” and dare not be called “heavenly Concubine”. I hope Mazu will come to rescue the fishing boat in the shipwreck immediately.
It is said that every time Mazu rescues a disaster at sea, she will give each person in distress a bowl of steaming, fragrant Xinghua birthday noodles. After eating it, she will not only warm up, but also turn good luck into good luck Over time, Xinghua Shoumian is called "e; Mazu safe face " It is well-known and has become the preferred food to bless peace and auspiciousness Whenever relatives and friends visit, celebrate their birthdays, meet each other every year, and have family reunions, you should eat " Mazu Ping’an noodles "e;, For good luck, peace and happiness.
March 15 of the lunar calendar is the birthday of Baosheng emperor, the God of medicine in Taiwan. Baosheng emperor, commonly known as “Da Dao Gong” in Taiwan, was worshipped as a God because of his proficiency in medicine and countless rescues.
1. The story of the battle between Mazu and Baosheng emperor spread in Fujian and Taiwan is used to explain the phenomenon of wind and rain in March of the lunar calendar in Fujian and Taiwan.
2. Wu Chu, the “great Baosheng emperor”, is commonly known as the “Lord of the road”. March 15 of the lunar calendar is the birthday of the great Baosheng emperor, so it is also known as the “Lord of the road”. But on this day, I don’t know why, there will be strong winds every year, so it is also called “Avenue wind”. Mazu’s birthday is on March 23 of the lunar calendar. I don’t know why it must rain every day, so it is commonly known as “Mazu rain”.
The story goes like this. Before they became immortals, dadaogong and Mazu competed with each other to see whose magic was powerful. Because the two people are equal, both have great powers, and all kinds of magic weapons have been used up, they are still unable to distinguish. The gods in the sky see that it is not a way for them to fight like this, so they coordinate in the middle, and the two dialects are harmonious, which ends the vicious fight. However, both sides are still a little unbalanced. Da Dao is a public ideal: “OK! On her birthday on March 23, I will cast a spell to rain, wash the rouge powder on her face, and see her embarrassment!” And Mazu thought to herself, “hum! I said I would stop fighting and be so cruel. Am I afraid of you? On the day of his birthday on March 15, I blew his human hat off and turned him into a siunlike!” In this way, there will be strong winds on March 15 and heavy rain on March 23 every year.
3. Disputes are inevitable in the world, and the divine world is no exception. In Taiwan, there is a legend that Da Dao Gong, a single noble in the divine world, once had a history of friendship with Mazu. When Baosheng the great emperor saw Mazu’s modesty and virtue, he launched a pursuit offensive to jointly compose a “friendship”. One day, Mazu saw the suffering of ewes giving birth at first sight, and resolutely cut off the relationship with the great emperor Baosheng with Huijian. The great emperor was very upset that he had been abandoned for no reason. He cast a magic rain on Mazu’s birthday (March 23 of the lunar calendar) and washed the fat and powder on Mazu’s face;
Baosheng emperor couldn’t save face, so he decided to wash the powder off Mazu’s face with a heavy rain, so that she could also experience the feeling of losing face. Not to be outdone, Mazu also practiced the wind to blow off the hat on the emperor’s head on the birthday of Baosheng Emperor (March 15 of the lunar calendar). Therefore, it often rains on Mazu’s birthday, while it often blows on the birthday of Baosheng emperor, which is the origin of the folk meteorological proverb: “the wind on the main road, the rain on Mazu”.
4. Baosheng emperor and Mazu were not married before their death. There is a legend like this. It is said that it rains on March 15 of the lunar calendar every year. Among them, there are interesting stories about Mazu and Baosheng emperor fighting. When Mazu got on the sedan and set out, he saw the mother sheep painfully landing a lamb on the road. He thought it was too hard to get married and have children, so he stopped thinking of getting married.
Therefore, it is windy almost every year on the 15th day of March of the lunar calendar, the birthday of Baosheng emperor. It rains every year on March 23 of the lunar calendar. The anecdote of the battle between emperor Baosheng and Mazu is a kind of humor among the Han people. It is also a mythological interpretation of the natural climate by the Han people. In today’s science, it seems a little unscientific. However, we might as well regard it as a legend to make the Han folk Baosheng emperor and Mazu more humane.
In fact, March of the lunar calendar coincides with the plum rain season. Wind and rain are natural phenomena, and the magic forces that turn to the divine world fight. The ability of the two gods to call the wind and rain is a symbol of marine culture. Disclaimer: the above content originates from the network, and the copyright belongs to the original author. Please inform us if your original copyright is infringed, and we will delete the relevant content as soon as possible.