妈祖是北宋福建莆田湄洲屿的一位普通女子,姓林名默。她常常为渔民预测出海的天气情况,不但采药为渔民治病、帮助拯救遇险渔船,还曾点燃自家的房子,以火光做航标引导迷航的商船脱离险境,在她28岁时因在海上救人而献出年轻的生命。渔民为了纪念她,便在岛上立庙,奉她为海神。在福建范围内尤其沿海地区建庙立祀,南至泉州北到霞浦。在台湾,早期汉人移民多自中国大陆福建渡海而来, Mazu is an ordinary woman in Meizhou Island, Putian, Fujian, Northern Song Dynasty, surnamed Lin. She often forecasters predict the weather conditions of the sea, not only herbs for the treatment of fishermen, help save the distressed fishing boats, but also ignited their own houses, firebrand navigation buoyant trunks merchant ships out of danger when she was 28 years old at sea Save and give up young life. To commemorate her fishermen, they set up temples on the island, worship her as a sea god. In the Fujian area, especially in the coastal areas built Temple worship, south to Quanzhou north to Xiapu. In Taiwan, early Han immigrants mostly came from Fujian in mainland China,