Tourism Festival Worshipping Goddess Of Sea Held In Meizhou Island, China

People attend a memorial ceremony for Mazu, the goddess of the sea, during a tourism festival in the Meizhou Island in Putian City, southeast China’s Fujian Province, Oct. 23, 2012. The tourism festival themed on Mazu culture, which kicked off here on Tuesday, attracted tens of thousands of worshippers from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. <Xinhua/Lin Shanchuan>