Yeliu Mazu Cave

A small shrine or altar occupying a sea cave on the Yeliu (野柳) coast, marking the spot where, according to local tradition, fishermen discovered a drifting Mazu statue in the early Jiaqing era, around 1800. That statue became the seed of Jinbaoli Cihu Temple in nearby Jinshan; each year on the sixteenth day of the fourth lunar month the “second Mazu” (二媽) is escorted back to this cave in a procession now recognized as intangible cultural heritage. It is featured in the book Parasitic Temples as the Erosion Temple (海蝕洞中廟).