Where are the three largest Mazu Tempel in the world?

Tianhou Palace in Quanzhou 1: It is the first Mazu Tempel in China to be listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit, which was founded in the second year of Song Qingyuan (A.D. 1 196). Located in Tianhou Road, Quanzhou City, it covers an area of about 13 mu, with a building area of over 5,000 square meters. In addition to the ancient buildings such as the main hall and the back hall, the temple has also restored the buildings such as the mountain gate, the stage, the bell and drum tower, the east-west corridor, and the dressing room in recent years. It is one of the largest and oldest existing Mazu Tempel, and there is a museum of the history of Fujian-Taiwan relations in the palace with a large collection.

Tianhou Palace in Quanzhou is of great significance to the development and spread of Mazu belief overseas. Historically, due to the continuous immigration and trade activities of Quanzhou people, Mazu belief has spread widely to Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province, Hongkong and Australia. Therefore, Tianhou Palace in Quanzhou still enjoys a high reputation overseas, and many overseas compatriots call it the "Temple of Wenling". Every year, more than 3,000 overseas teams come to visit the pilgrimage.

2. Tianhou Palace in Tianjin: commonly known as "Niangniang Palace", it was built in Dingding, Thailand for three years (A.D. 1326) and has undergone dozens of renovations and reconstructions. It is one of the three largest Tianhou Palace in the world (Taimiao Temple in Meizhou, Fujian, Tianhou Palace in Tianjin and Chaotian Palace in Beigang, Taiwan Province). Located in the west bank of Sanchakou, Haihe River, outside the east gate of the old city of Tianjin, in the middle of Guwen Street, facing east, it covers an area of 5,352 square meters, with a building area of 1 0,734 square meters. From east to west, it consists of theater, banner, mountain gate, memorial arch, front yard, main hall, phoenix hall, sutra depository, Kaiguang Temple, Bell and Drum Tower, Zhangxiange and four affiliated halls.

Tianhou Palace in Tianjin was listed as the key cultural relics protection unit in Tianjin twice on 1954 and 1982. 1985 became the seat of Tianjin Folk Museum as the birthplace of Tianjin folk culture. In addition to preserving the restoration of Tianhou Palace, exhibitions focusing on Tianjin folk customs have been opened one after another. This paper systematically introduces the customs of water transportation, marriage and childbearing, commerce, folk life, folk art, folk beliefs, etc., and builds a 69-meter-long Tianhou Monument Gallery, which depicts a picture of historical customs with great personality and regional culture, and has become a tourist attraction for Chinese and foreign people.

3. Zhijiang Tianhou Palace: It is the largest Mazu Tempel in the inland of China, located in Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County, Hunan Province. Built in the 13th year of Qing Qianlong (A.D. 1748), it belongs to the provincial cultural relics protection unit in Hunan. The whole of Mazu Tempel is a combination of ancient architecture and relief art, which has high artistic appreciation value and cultural relics protection value. There are 50 reliefs carved on the stone square of Qian Fang Hougong, which are lifelike and exquisite in carving skills, and are known as "the first square in the south of the Yangtze River".

Because/kloc-has not been overhauled for more than 30 years, the wooden columns, transverse purlins and board walls of the wooden structure Tianhou Palace are seriously damaged. Therefore, from 1999, Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County began to carry out overall maintenance. After three years of hard work and millions of yuan, Tianhou Palace was reopened to the public in 2002.

4. Penghu Tianhou Temple: the earliest Mazu Tempel in Taiwan Province Province, which was said to have been built in the 20th year of Wanli of the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1592). Carved beams and painted buildings in the temple are beautifully carved, antique and beautiful. Every year, on March 23rd of the lunar calendar, Mazu's birthday, a large-scale sea trip around Mazu will be held in Penghu Tianhou Temple to pray for good weather and family safety.

In the back hall of the Tianhua Temple in Penghu, there is the earliest stone tablet in Taiwan Province, engraved with the words "Shen Yourong ordered the return of red hair, Wei Fan Malang, etc.". It is said that/kloc-At the beginning of the 7th century, the Dutch used their economic and military strength to occupy Java and set up the East India Company in an attempt to trade with China. However, at that time, the Ming Dynasty imposed a maritime ban, and trade was not allowed unless it was a tributary country. In the thirty-second year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1604), the Dutch prefect Weimarang used the tactics of Pan Xiuzhi, an overseas Chinese in Dani (now Thailand), to write a letter to Ming officials, hoping to allow Dutch trade. As there was no reply, he landed in Penghu on July 12 to find out. Hearing this, officials from the provinces in central Fujian sent Shen Yourong, the official department minister, to see Wei Malang at Mazu Palace (Tianhou Palace) and made a long speech to show his concern. Weimarang knew that there was no hope for trade and no chance for war. He left Peng despondently on June 25th, 65438 10, and wrote a glorious page for the people of China to defeat the enemy without fighting.

5. Miaodao Fairy Shadow Palace: Mazu Tempel, the earliest and most influential building in northern China, was built in the fourth year of Huizong Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1 122). It was canonized by the emperors of the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was once known as the "No.1 Niangniang Temple in the World", which was famous all over the world. Therefore, the temple island owner slaughtered the Changshan Islands and became an island between the north and the south.