Flourishing of Mazu belief in Fujian during the Qing dynasty:an explanation;

On the Geographical Distribution Characteristics of Mazu Belief;

This paper mainly discusses historical Mazu belief in Zhapu,Zhejiang province by investigating and exploring historical data.

The evolution of the belief of Mazu has unique feature - the localization of this belief in Ryukyu, which is now Okinawa, Japan.

Preliminary research on belief of Mazu in Zhixi village of Liancheng county;

Belief of Mazu have formed a circle of culture which is not only spreading from south to north in China, but also all over the world now.

Mazu Worship in Taiwan and Its Impact on the Cause of Chinese Reunification;

In the mid-Ming Dynasty,Confucians were gaining increasingly greater sway in the imperial court,and as majority of Confucians regarded Mazu worship as immoral,governments at local levels would tend to close down local Mazu temples.

This paper gives a brief account of the spreading of Mazu worship and conditions about Mazu temples in China\'s Hong Kong and Macao,comparing the similarities and differences in Mazu worship in these two regions and analyzing their reasons so as to have a deeper understanding of the feature and developing trend of Mazu worship.

Giving a brief introduction the locations of Mazu Temples in Northern Fujian,this paper discusses variety of customs concerning belief in Mazu in Northern Fujian and makes a study of the rise of belief in Mazu in history and its evolution in modern times in Northern Fujian.

This paper collects the poetry of Song Dynasty about Mazu with the combination of the documents of Song Dynasty in order to study Mazu s many kinds of functions reflected in the works and the areas where the belief in Mazu was spreading in early days and some relative folk-custom activities.