13/02/2019

Bai Tian Gong 拜天宫 2019

Hokkiens’ New Year 福建人的新年 9th day of Chinese New Year

It is said that the ninth day of the first lunar month of the Chinese people is "born in heaven"


The story from Nu Wa Goddess to open up the world, made all things.

The first day for the chicken, the first two days for the dog,

The third day for the pig, the fourth day for the sheep,

Fifth day for the cattle day, sixth day for the horse day,

The seventh day is man day, the eighth day is valley day,

The ninth day for the sun, the first ten for the day.



The top table is mainly based on plain vegetarian vegetarian products:

A pair of flowers

A pair of candles

3 cups of tea

3. tied red paper noodles three beams

4 kinds of fruit

5 vegetarian 12 bowls (or 24,36 bowls)

Contains the golden needle, on behalf of the gold in the five elements;

Fungus or mushrooms, representing the five elements in the wood;

Winter powder represents water;

Jujube on behalf of the fire,

Potatoes represent soil.



The next table is five sacrificial meat and other meat-based:

1. Three cups of tea or wine

2 three sacrifices

3 or 5 kinds of fruit

4 red turtle, rice cake.

Red turtle on behalf of auspicious,

Tortoiseshell pattern on the head, said longevity,

To tomorrow's public conservation of all morality,

It must take a long, long time to go beyond human ancestry.

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