Introduction to the birthplace of Mazu: Mazu was born on the 23rd day of the third lunar month in the first year of Jianlong of the Song Dynasty (960) in Gangli Village, Xianlianggang. Her original name was Lin Mo. When he was young, he obtained the talisman by observing the well, and he was good at medicine, curing diseases and saving people. He was also familiar with the properties of water, and he rescued ships in distress. At the age of twenty-eight (the ninth day of the ninth lunar month in the fourth year of Yongxi reign of the Song Dynasty), she climbed to the Ancestral Temple Mountain on Meizhou Island, ascended to heaven and became a human being. She continued to manifest her spiritual powers and was worshiped as the goddess of the sea.