Sponsoring Mazu Pilgrimage Procession creatively, it presents blessings to people when holding it with charity activities. From 2008 to 2018, the procession has been held for a decade. In this year, after many discussions, it is decided to change it into a cultural festival. The host temple will be responsible for holding the pilgrimage procession activities. Integrating resources from the private sector, the county government will present cultural, charity, industrial, and tourism activities. In the afternoon on the 3rd, Changhua County Government invited 12 Mazu temples: Wanggong Fuhai Temple, Lukang Taiwan Husheng Temple, Shenggang Fuan Temple, Changhua Nanyao Temple, Fenyuan Baozang Temple, Yuanlin Funing Temple, Shetou Fanqiaotou Tianmen Temple, Tianzhong Qiande Temple, Beidou Dianan Temple, Pitou Hexing Temple, Erlin Renhe Temple, and Fangyuan Putian Temple to decide the date. The director of the host temple Wanggong Fuhai Temple was responsible to pray to the deity for an ideal date. All the participants prayed to 12 Mazu statues and request the deity to choose the host for this year. Magistrate Wang, Hui-Mei of Changhua County represented the temple to toss the divination blocks. With 3 divine answers, Shenggang Fuan Temple was choses to be the host of the first Mazu Cultural Festival. The director of the host temple, Wang, Wan-Fa represented to toss the divination blocks, the deity decided the date of the festival to be from October 11 (Fri) (the 13th day of the 9th lunar month) to October 13 (Sun), for 3 days. According to the plan on October 11 (Day 1) the 12 Mazu statues from the temples will be gathered at the host temple and conduct the pilgrimage procession. On October 13 (Day 3), a blessing ceremony will be held to pray for peace, prosperity, abundant rain, and nice weather to the county.
Magistrate Wang, Hui-Mei of Changhua County would like to invite Taiwan folks to participate in Changhua Mazu Cultural Festival from October 11 to 13. She also invites different sectors to donate for public charity to uphold Mazu’s compassion so that love will permeate in Changhua and Changhua folks will be much benefited.