南沙天后宫

This guide to the Tianhou Temple in Shenzhen tells the story behind the statue on the hillside: a girl born around 960 on Fujian's Meizhou Island who never spoke, called Mo Niang, Silent Girl, said to read storms and reach out in trance toward sailors caught at sea, including her own father and brothers in one hurricane. It follows how she became Mazu, worshipped across China and Southeast Asia, and how this hillside temple facing the Pearl River survived the Ming and Qing dynasties, wartime destruction, and a 1990s reconstruction. Stand in the main square and look up at the granite figure keeping watch over the water.