Around this date, Meizhou Bay is packed with fleets of boats, hoisted flags fluttering on their masts. The seven ferry boats especially assigned to fill the need sail to and fro non-stop. In the Mother Temple, "Matsu noodles" are put on the fire one pot after another.
三月廿三前後，湄洲灣內擠滿掛大旗來進香的船隊，渡船口加派的七、八艘渡船來回開個不停；祖廟裡，「媽祖麵線」也一大鍋一大鍋地煮不停。