Memorial ceremony for Chinese sea goddess Mazu held in Tianjin
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People perform during a memorial ceremony for Chinese sea goddess Mazu in north China’s Tianjin Municipality, March 4, 2026. Gegu Baonianhui, a memorial ceremony for Chinese sea goddess Mazu observed in Gegu Town, was staged on Wednesday in Tianjin.
This memorial ceremony was included in national intangible cultural heritage list in 2014. It is an important activity for the locals to celebrate the Chinese New Year and pray for good luck. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)
People perform during a memorial ceremony for Chinese sea goddess Mazu in north China’s Tianjin Municipality, March 4, 2026. Gegu Baonianhui, a memorial ceremony for the Chinese sea goddess Mazu observed in Gegu Town, was staged on Wednesday in Tianjin.
This memorial ceremony was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2014. It is an important activity for the locals to celebrate the Chinese New Year and pray for good luck. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)
People perform during a memorial ceremony for Chinese sea goddess Mazu in north China’s Tianjin Municipality, March 4, 2026. Gegu Baonianhui, a memorial ceremony for the Chinese sea goddess Mazu observed in Gegu Town, was staged on Wednesday in Tianjin.
This memorial ceremony was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2014. It is an important activity for the locals to celebrate the Chinese New Year and pray for good luck. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)
People perform during a memorial ceremony for Chinese sea goddess Mazu in north China’s Tianjin Municipality, March 4, 2026. Gegu Baonianhui, a memorial ceremony for the Chinese sea goddess Mazu observed in Gegu Town, was staged on Wednesday in Tianjin.
This memorial ceremony was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2014. It is an important activity for the locals to celebrate the Chinese New Year and pray for good luck. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)
People perform during a memorial ceremony for Chinese sea goddess Mazu in north China’s Tianjin Municipality, March 4, 2026. Gegu Baonianhui, a memorial ceremony for the Chinese sea goddess Mazu observed in Gegu Town, was staged on Wednesday in Tianjin.
This memorial ceremony was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2014. It is an important activity for the locals to celebrate the Chinese New Year and pray for good luck. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
