According to records, Maureen was born in Xianliang Port, a beautiful small fishing village near Meizhou Bay in Putian City, Fujian Province. Lin is one of the big families in Fujian. Lu Lin footballer, the ancestor of Lin Min, did business in Du Jiang Town (now Nanjing) of Si Marui in the first year of Jin Yongjia (307). Lin Biao, Mazu's great-great grandfather, was an official in the Five Dynasties. Great-grandfather Lin Baoji became an official in the later Zhou Dynasty. In the first year of Xiande (954), he was appointed as the special envoy of the army. In view of the chaos in the world, he abandoned his official position and retired. Grandpa's name is Fu, and he is the general manager of Fujian. Mazu's father's name is Lin Yuan, and he was an official in the inspection department in the early Song Dynasty. His mother Wang gave birth to a boy and six girls.
Mazu is the youngest daughter in the family. Mazu was born on March 23rd, the first year of Song Jianlong (960). Before his death, his parents had five daughters and longed for another boy, so they burned incense early to pray for our son, but the last child was a baby girl, and their parents were disappointed. In the evening when she was about to be born, the neighbors saw the meteor turn into a red light from the northwest sky, dazzling and shining on the rocks on the island. Parents realize that the baby is not an idle girl, so they take good care of it and love it. Because he never cried from birth to next month, he was named Maureen.
When Maureen was a child, she was smarter and wiser than her sisters. At the age of eight, she entered school, studied hard and memorized. She was young and ambitious, dissatisfied with feudal marriage and determined not to marry. Learn medicine from an early age, rejuvenate, and teach people to prevent diseases and eliminate disasters. She is smooth and enthusiastic, and always willing to do good deeds and help the world. It is said that when Maureen was twenty-eight years old, she was unfortunately hit on the head by a mast while rescuing a ship in distress at sea and fell into the water and died. Later, she became famous for "doing good deeds after death", regarded her as a god and went to the sea to save people.
Since then, Mazu has often appeared, and villagers often see her beside caves in rocks, or sitting in clouds, or Zhu Yi flying on the sea, often showing her dreams and saving people's lives. Later, people in the village built a temple in Meifeng, which was devoutly enshrined, and later generations came to worship in an endless stream. Mazu was at sea all his life, saving lives, defending the country and benefiting all the people. The sailors regarded him as a god. After her death, she still took it as her duty to do good and save the world. People finally regarded Mazu as a veritable "goddess of the sea".