Mountain village in the sea God, in the good altar village, bat mountain half-slope at a "half Ling Palace Mazu is called "God of the Sea" and "Goddess of Navigation", and is one of the most important folk beliefs in the history of marine culture. Shan Tan She Village, located in the mountains of Daiyun Mountain, 400-1000 meters above sea level, is a small mountain village far from the sea, but why is Mazu, the goddess of peace on the sea, enshrined?
Village cadre Zhong Jianliang introduced, the good altar A-Ma Zu faith from Putian Meizhou to Xiamen's Zhongzhai, and then into the Anxi.
At that time, Zhong Yande was afraid that the people of his ancestral home in Xiamen would not agree to take away the golden body of A-Ma Zu, so he carried A-Ma Zu on his back with a swaddling handkerchief and traveled north over the mountains to the Shan Tan Temple. "Now the temple enshrines the golden body of A-Ma, originally in Xiamen Zhong House has been enshrined for more than 200 years, more than 800 years of history." Zhong Jianliang said, the good altar every year to welcome the spring, the tradition of using swaddling clothes to carry "A-Ma Zu" tour, in order to commemorate. It was only in modern times that the carriage and sedan chair were used to welcome spring.
Every year on the 23rd day of the third lunar month, the birthday of Mazu and the Bun Festival, the village of Shan Tan will hold a Mazu parade around the border, with a dragon and lion dance team, a fire tripod ugly woman team, a team of eighteen Bachelor's Degree students, a Wenge eight-note array, an eight-immortal formation, a fire pit, a drum and suona team, and an ethnic minority electroacoustic team, all of which will perform together, making for a very lively event.