Pegasus Discovery Tour 2003

From March 20 to April 5, 2003, over 30 Ma/Marr family members from North America and China embarked on the Pegasus Discovery Tour of China partly to visit various major historic cities in China and to discover our roots at the Bright Creek Village. After an extensive tour of major sites in China, including Beijing, Sian, Guilin, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. We met up with the local Ma Elders of the Bright Creek Village or the Hundred Beam Bridge Village.

Hundred Beam Bridge 百粱桥

We had a major celebration and veneration our ancestors.  Later, in the week, there were two celebratory dinners in Ningbo and Shanghai, where over a hundred Ma/Marrs from around the world gathered to celebrate the Ma/Marr family’s major reunion worldwide. While I organized the folks in North America and worked out the tour, George made organized details for the Village visit and hosted the two dinners. To prepare for the tour, I organized a Pegasus Tour Study Booklet. In it, I included a genealogy tree of the known individuals at the time. Unbeknownst to us, nearly 20 years later, we would have a much more extensive genealogy tree connecting many of us.

I believe everyone who came to the celebrations yearns to have a Pegasus II reunion again. Maybe in time, this desire might turn into reality for the next generation.
Ted Marr, 25th Gen.

You can download the Pegasus Discovery Tour Study Guide.

Here is a gallery of some of the pictures from the tour.

Pegasus Flag
The brothers, George and Ted organized the tour
Pegasus Flag
Below the shadow of the Great Wall
On the Great Wall
Kevin in Tiananman Square
Jim, Debbie, Mason and Matthew
Meiling, May, Jennifer, Ryan and Ethan
On the Great Wall
Camel ride in Sian
David and Ryan cycling on the Ancient Sian Wall
Marya and Mark at Terra Cotta Museum, Sian
Cruise in Guiling
Catching fish with Cormorants
Meiling enjoying a ride on a palanquin
Huang Shan in fog
Group picture in Guiling
On an island in the Thousand-Island Lake
West Lake, Hangzhou
Jiangnan Water Town near Shanghai
Hundred Beam Bridge Signage Obelisk
Hundred Beam Bridge, a rare covered bridge
Welcome Worldwide Ma Family Reunion at the Bright Creek Village
Signing guest registry at the Bright Creek Village
North American contingent in front of the Hundred Beam Bridge
Venerable Aunty Liang by the Hundred Beam Bridge
Debbie and Mason on Hundred Beam Bridge
"Time to move on, everyone”
Bright Creek Village Elders prepared veneration for ancestors
Bright Creek Village Elders
Hilton and Sincere at the Hundred Beam Bridge
David paying respect
Village children of Ma Clan joined the celebrdation
Dr. Ma, village physician and husband with visitors
The unique covered bridge
Hundred Beam Bridge with 114 Beams
Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai-Dinner: Ted thanked George for hosting the dinner
Dinner Attendants
Dinner attendants
Dinner attendants
Dinner attendants
Dinner attendants
Shanghai Reunion Dinner
Shanghai Reunion Dinner
Shanghai Reunion Dinner
Shanghai Reunion Dinner
Shanghai Reunion Dinner
Shanghai Reunion Dinner
Shanghai Reunion Dinner
Shanghai Reunion Dinner
Shanghai Reunion Dinner
Shanghai Reunion Dinner
Brothers, Ted and George made a joint presentation at the Shanghai Reunion Dinner