One trend is that the Matsu temples on Taiwan, in order to build up authority, vie with one another for close relations with the Mother Temple, in order to claim that they are the island's original center of Matsu worship.
現象之一是，台灣的媽祖廟，為了建立權威，一向互爭自己是台灣最早的媽祖廟。如今則爭相與祖廟結為至親，以保自己的老大地位。