Stone lions and shih-kan-tang tablets: they came from China but prospered in Okinawa. Or as the saying goes in Taiwanese: "Ma-Tsu finding disciples in a foreign land."
起源於中國，發揚光大於琉球，石獅、石敢當的際遇，套句閩南俗諺，就是「媽祖興外鄉」了。