After people were allowed to visit their relatives across the Strait, however, the movement to visit one's kith and kin suddenly became a new object. As everybody rushed to the mainland to worship and have an audience with their ancestors, a new twist was added to the long-running competition among Taiwan's native temples over which one brought the first Matsu statue from the mainland.
然而在兩岸開放探親之後，這「省親」活動忽然有了新對象；大家一窩蜂到大陸進香謁祖，對此地原本寺廟間存在已久的「開基」之爭，又投下新的變數。