Mei-chou

English Etymology From the Wade-Giles romanization of en cmn 湄洲 Méizhōu, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Mei²-chou¹. Proper noun 1 1 en Meizhou. en 1996 Vivian-Lee Nyitray The Sea Goddess and the Goddess of Democracy The Annual Review of Women in World Religions https://archive.org/details/annualreviewofwo00stat_0/ w:State University of New York Press IV 0-7914-2968-7 1056-4578 36578227 7801771M 164 https://archive.org/details/annualreviewofwo00stat_0/page/164/ At exactly 9:00 a.m. on May 5, 1989, 220 fishermen in nineteen boats sailed out from Su-ao Harbor in I-lan County on Taiwan's east coast; officially, they were going to fish the waters off P'eng-chia, an island seventy nautical miles north of Taiwan. Unofficially, however, they were charting a course westward some two hundred nautical miles toward the Fukien coast to Ma-tsu's traditional birthplace, the island of Mei-chou. en 2007 April Julie Grundvig TAIWAN The Asia Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the Continent https://archive.org/details/asiabookjourneyt0000unse/ 978-1-74104-601-4 82672255 104 https://archive.org/details/asiabookjourneyt0000unse/page/104/ 1, 2 Matsu, goddess of the sea, is the most revered deity of Taiwan. Legend has it that Matsu was once a real person named Lin Mo, born to fisherfolk on Meizhou Island in Fujian, China. It is said that Lin Mo loved the sea and would often stand on the seashore and guide ships safely to shore. On a stormy night, Lin Mo drowned while saving a sailor and her body washed up on the shores of Nankan Island, Matsu, where she was buried by the villagers. Temples were built to honour the young woman and her popularity eventually spread as far as Japan and Southeast Asia. Today there are over 500 temples dedicated to her around Taiwan. on en 2010 w:Jen Green Chinese and Japanese Myths https://archive.org/details/chinesejapanesem0000gree/ w:Gareth Stevens 978-1-4339-3534-3 2009039330 440283119 22 https://archive.org/details/chinesejapanesem0000gree/page/22/ Before she became a goddess, T'ien Hou had been human. As a little girl, she lived on the island of Mei-chou. en n.d. :zh:啟天宮 啟天宮 Chi-tien Kong https://web.archive.org/web/20220906125005/http://www2.whcc.org.tw/WanDa/en/temple_06.htm 06 September 2022 zh:萬華社區大學<t:Taipei Wan Hua Community College> Matsu's last name was Lin and her family name was Mo . She was born on a small island called Mei-chow, Putien County, Fukien . en Translations Meizhou