[6] Already popular among the Fujianese immigrants to Taiwan, her cult was particularly patronized by the Qing, who credited her with Shi Lang's 1683 conquest of the island from the Ming-loyalist Zheng clan.

[7] On 10 May 1963, a bus carrying a group of teachers from Lukang's Haipu School and their relatives went off a wet road over the side of a cliff on the way to Taiwan's east coast.

The believers among those saved by the trees which stopped the bus considered that the scene looked the same as Mazu's surname (林) and credited her divine protection.

The bus stopped at the Lukang Mazu Temple on the way home and the entire group knelt and thanked her with incense.

[7] In April 1972, Lin Tz-hang and his schoolmates from Jing Cheng High School went swimming in the ocean but found themselves miles at sea because of the rising tide.

[7] The front or Sanchuan Hall[8] has woodwork notably different from that elsewhere in the complex because it was added from Lukang's city god temple in 1933 when the Japanese began to destroy it as part of an urban replanning.

The front hall's coffered ceiling includes sculptures of the Eight Immortals and paintings of the "Four Loves": fishing, woodcutting, planting, and reading.

[10] The ceiling's plaque was written by Wang Lan-pei in 1830 and invokes Mazu's protection (Bo Hai Meng Xiu).

[8] The present hardbody main statue of Mazu (Zhen Dian Ma) was sculpted with sand by Shi Li in the 1930s as part of the temple's reconstruction.

Prior to the 1922 pilgrimage, the temple president commissioned the Quanzhou carver Lian Yong-chua to produce another similar statue for use on such trips.

[13] The diminutive 8-inch (200 mm) Chuantou Ma is a specimen of the many statues of Mazu carried by Taiwanese sailors in shrines at the bows of their ships.