Over 1,000 Goddess Mazu devotees from Taiwan and Fujian provinces, gather for a pageant folklore ceremony of street-stepping to worship the Chinese Goddess blessing the fisherman on sea, during a grand Wenling Mazu Fair at the Heavenly Goddess Palace in Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, Oct. 29, 2009. Series of activities including Xun'an Street-Stepping, antique sacrificial ceremony, photos exhibition on Mazu belief, Quanzhou folk handicrafts exhibition, etc, take places all together in celebration of Mazu Belief being honored onto the board of additions to the United Nations' Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) list of intangible cultural heritages. [Xinhua] |
