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Ma Cho Po in Chinatown |
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The most celebrated event of the Thian Hock Keng Temple in Chinatown is the celebration of Ma Cho Po. Ma Cho Po in Chinatown is the goddess of seafarers and it is the chief deity of the temple. The statue of Ma Cho Po was brought from Fukien province to Singapore in 1840 and since then the Thian Hong Keng is known as one of the busiest temples in Chinatown with a large number of devotees offering joss- sticks to the gods. It is believed that Ma Cho Po in Chinatown has blessed numerous Chinese with luck and protection and this faith has made Ma Cho Po the most worshiped deity in the present world.
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According to the legend, Ma Cho Po, a young girl used to perform supernatural feats like foretelling the future or healing the wounds of the sick or walking on the water. She is the sixth daughter of a Julian Sailor of the Sung Dynasty (960- 1279).
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Lin Muonjiang was the original name of the famous Ma Cho Po in Chinatown. It is the series of miraculous rescues at sea that Ma Cho Po undertook that in turn induced blind faith in her among the Chinese. And Ma Cho Po got the title of Tian Hou (Queen of Heaven) and Tian Feu (Lady in Waiting to Heaven) from the Empress for her exercise of divine power. Ma Cho Po is not only worshiped by the Singaporeans but it is worshiped as the sea Goddess by millions of Chinese all over the world and they pray for their safe sea journeys before going for a voyage.
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Apart from being a sea goddess, Ma Cho Po in Chinatown also stands for the symbol of peace to the early Chinese immigrants who went through a series of crises in order to restore prosperity for their descendants in Nanyang.
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