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Shui Wei Sheng Niang

Chinese Goddess of Hainan Island

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Shui Wei Sheng Niang is a Hainanese goddess who is worshiped by the Hainanese around the world, especially those living in waterfront areas. She is often worshipped alongside Mazu and 108 Xiongdi Gong. Her veneration spread along with Hainanese diaspora at the end of Qing dynasty. Her birthday is celebrated on 15th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Shui Wei Sheng Niang” is chinese Goddess of Hainan Island. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Shui, Sheng and Niang, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 61-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Shui, Sheng and Niang is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “chinese Goddess of Hainan Island” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2026.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Shui Wei Sheng Niang”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Shui Wei Sheng Niang primary sources, Shui Wei Sheng Niang archive and Shui research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Shui Wei Sheng Niang”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Shui Wei Sheng Niang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.