Southeast Asia Information Port News (www.dnyxxg.com) – On the morning of November 10, 2025, the 10th Nan'an Fengshan Cultural Activities Week, themed "Encountering the Millennial Sacred Land of Fengshan, Spreading the Virtues of Loyalty, Filial Piety, Benevolence, and Righteousness," was grandly launched at the Fengshan Temple Cultural Square in Shishan, Nan'an City, Fujian Province.
More than a thousand representatives from temples at home and abroad, believers, and guests from all walks of life, including nearly 600 guests from Taiwan, witnessed this grand event of cross-strait cultural exchange.
"We hope that this event will serve as an opportunity to further build a broad platform for cultural exchange, emotional integration, and cooperative development," said Wang Lianzan, Mayor of Nan'an City. He added that Fengshan culture, with "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness" as its core spirit, has, after a thousand years of accumulation, become a spiritual bond that enhances the cultural confidence of Chinese people worldwide and maintains the deep affection between compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, demonstrating the powerful vitality and cohesive force of excellent traditional Chinese culture that transcends time and space.
“Culture is a shared belief and cultural heritage for both sides of the Taiwan Strait, regardless of where you are today. We all share the same roots!” Huang Lizhen, a post-95s Taiwanese youth from Tainan, stated that the kinship between the two sides remains unchanged under a shared cultural background.
“Come more often, visit more frequently, pass on the faith, preserve the roots of faith. We are all one family!” Wang Weishen, a Taiwanese youth from Kaohsiung, has visited the mainland many times. He frankly stated, “Each visit strengthens our bond. The mainland is the source of our faith, and this faith has connected us across the Strait.”
Fengshan Temple, located in Shishan Town, Nan'an, enshrines Guo Shengwang, whose secular name was Guo Zhongfu. He was bestowed the title “Weizhen Zhongying Fuhui Weiwu Yinglie Baoan Guangze Zunwang” by emperors of successive dynasties. As one of the four major folk beliefs in Fujian, Guangze Zunwang is revered for its popular legends, deeply moving stories of filial piety, and the traditional virtues of “loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness,” enjoying a worldwide reputation and forming a global Guangze Zunwang faith culture. To date, with Fengshan Temple in Shishan, Nan'an as its ancestral temple, there are over two thousand temples worldwide dedicated to Guangze Zunwang. Especially in Taiwan, Guangze Zunwang is revered as a guardian deity, with over 680 Fengshan Temples (temples, palaces, altars, halls) built in more than 20 counties and cities, attracting a wide following and becoming an important cultural link connecting the spiritual worlds of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Following the launch ceremony, a Guangze Zunwang cultural ritual was held at the Fengshan Cultural Park Square, showcasing the Fujian Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage, "Min-Tai Guangze Zunwang Beliefs and Customs." Believers performed ancient rituals and offerings, deeply commemorating "Guo Shengwang," born in the Later Tang Dynasty and deified for filial piety. This grand event was both a resonance of divine affinity across the Taiwan Strait and a profound inheritance of millennia-old folk beliefs, fully demonstrating the core cohesive power of Fengshan Temple as the ancestral temple for over two thousand branch temples worldwide.
This year's Nan'an Fengshan Cultural Activities Week mainly includes the opening ceremony, the Guangze Zunwang cultural ceremony, the Minnan traditional "coming-of-age ceremony", cultural exchanges at the Fengshan Ancestral Temple, and other activities. It also features a Fujian-Taiwan intangible cultural heritage experience workshop, the "Fujian-Taiwan Connection" basic exhibition miniature exhibition and the Fujian-Taiwan ancestral village genealogy exhibition, the "Silk Road Dream Journey and Origin Tracing" and a series of folk activities at Fengshan Temple.
