Why do people in Taiwan Province Province like to worship Mazu?

Because Mazu is a sea god, through the legendary story of TV series Mazu, we can know that Mazu is a sea god who saves people at sea.

Mazu is from Meizhou Island, Fujian. In the early years, fishermen in Meizhou Island made a living by fishing. They fish in the sea all the year round, and they are inevitably killed when they go out to sea. Whenever fishermen are in danger, Mazu will fall from the sky, and in the eyes of fishermen, it is simply a living Buddha. People in Taiwan Province like Mazu because it looks like a loving mother. In Taiwan Province Province, Mazu statues are plump old women in their forties and fifties, just like loving mothers in people's hearts.

In fact, not only people in Taiwan Province province like Mazu, but also people in Fujian believe in Mazu. At first, Mazu was a symbol of Poseidon who somehow became his mother. Mazu is a very common name in Taiwan Province Province, and people who believe in Mazu like to ask Mazu for blessing in everything.

I don't know when people turned Mazu into Guanyin. Nowadays, many married childless people also like to worship Mazu. I remember there is such a story in the TV series Mazu. A family in Meizhou Island went to Mazu Tempel to worship Mazu after several years of marriage without children. It didn't take long for their family to have a child. I think there are still some in the world!

I think most people in Taiwan Province Province regard Mazu as their loving mother and like Mazu in front of their mother's image.