Dajia, Taichung

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Dajia Township (大甲鎮) is an urban township in Taichung County, Taiwan. It is located on Taichung County's northwestern cape .The climate of the region is Sub-tropical, and the average temperature is roughly 24 degrees Celsius.

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Jenn Lann Gong
Chenlan Temple (worships Matsu)

Dajia Mazu Sightseeing Cultural Festival, Taichung A religious and pompous event – Dajia Mazu border-tour of incense-offering

In the spring of Taiwan, every locality is stirred of the event to welcome and receive Mazu, aside form the blossoming natural flowers. Mazu, being long stalled adored in the temple, is being shouldered by worshippers to view the spring for blessing, while everyone would, with religious sentiment to follow, happily participate in the event of joyful god-welcoming competition. Among these events to welcome Mazu held in every locality, the border-tour of incense-offering of “Dajia, Taichung Mazu Sightseeing Cultural Festival” is considered to be one of the major events of Taiwan’s religious community as the tour would travel across the city and village of Taichung County, Changhwa County, Yuanlin County, and Chiayi county. As a whole, the tour would march a distance on foot over 300 kilometer, last over 7 days and 8 nights, and pass by more than eighty participating temples. During the tour of border-tour of incense-offering, both the traditional folk arts as well as new-generation artistic performance of Taiwan would join in the tour for joy, attracting a great deal of attention. As the following worshippers of the tour travel through the county, and city with the faith of Mazu, they have built up friendship with people along the way for they are a group of faith-worshipper from the world firmly in step of their faith to complete the tour. During the 7-day and 8-night tour of incense-offering, there are joyful and exciting event and religious prayer as well as concentrated and ascetic sentiments – a co-existence of the heavenly and temporary, while artistic performances of the ancient, contemporary, local, or overseas are staged within the same context of space and time. As a result, the intermingled moments of seriously religious faith and exhilarating joyful atmosphere have once again sublimed the religious faith of the people of Taiwan to a surprisingly pompous climax.