What are the sights worth visiting in Meizhou Island?

Mazu Tempel on the island is famous at home and abroad. Mazu was originally named Molin (960-987 AD), and after his death, he was honored as a sea god for going out to sea to help many fishermen and merchant ships. Successive imperial courts also awarded her the titles of "Tian Fei", "Tianhou" and "Tiannv". Meizhou Island is the hometown of Mazu, and Mazu Tempel here is known as "Meizhou Ancestral Temple in Tianhou Palace". This temple was built in the fourth year of Song Yongxi (AD 987), and in the same year as Maureen's death, there were only a few rafters at first. After the expansion, it is more and more magnificent. Zheng He, a famous navigator in Ming Dynasty, returned from seven voyages to the Western Ocean and said that "God shows the holy sea". Before his seventh voyage to the West, he came to Meizhou Island to preside over the imperial sacrifice and expand the temple. Emperor Kangxi unified Taiwan Province Province in the Qing Dynasty, and General Shi Lang said that "Heaven helps the sea" and ordered the great expansion. At present, Mazu Tempel has been renovated, carved with beams and painted with buildings, resplendent and magnificent, and has become a holy place for China sailors to worship and compatriots at home and abroad to yearn for. It is said that there are more than 1000 overseas Chinese settlements in Mazu Tempel, including more than 580 in Taiwan Province Province. Every time Mazu's birthday is March 23, Mazu's death day is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. There are a sea of people inside and outside the temple, and the incense is flourishing.

On the rocks behind the temple, there are stone carvings such as "Ascending to Heaven" and "Guanlan". Standing on the stone, looking at the vast sea, Bai Ou sweeps the waves and the boat shuttles; There are mountains in the water, and there is sea outside the mountains. Mountains and seas intersect. There is a large area of diabase on the seabed of the rock bank in front of the temple, which is eroded by wind and waves and forms natural grooves. The sound of tidal breathing, from far to near, sounds like thin orchestral strings at first, then like bells and drums, then like dragons and tigers whistling, and finally like giant thunderbolts and showers. The gripping "Mei Yu Yin Chao" is therefore famous. There is a ferry between Meizhou Island and Wen Jia Pier in Zhongmen Peninsula. There are Tiangong Hotel, newly-built Meizhou Dasha Store and Meizhou Hotel on the island.