Taiwan Welcomes Mazu
2024 / April
“For deities to flourish, you need people to worship them and people to carry them when they go out on tour.” So said Lin Mei-rong, a researcher at the Academia Sinica’s Institute of Ethnology, in an interview with Taiwan Panorama. Pilgrimages of the goddess Mazu attract a great many participants each year, and this issue’s Cover Story focuses on themes related to these processions, including the pilgrimages themselves, palanquins and their bearers, temple culture and cuisine, and pilgrimage souvenirs.