|
YuHuang Empire, called as Heaven God by general
people, is in the highest status among gods to administrate all
other gods and control fates of human being in folklore.
General people dare not to sculpture God statue and instead
write down the title which is glued on wall in the living room
and hung with a bronze censer for incenses day and night. On his
birthday, people pay respects and pray for blessing with
offerings. Simple and solemn for the praying, at auspicious
hours believers have to shower first, and knee down for three
times and kowtow for nine times, not allowable for dalliance or
anger. In offering chickens and unclean fish, such as shark and
snakefish, are improper, and in praying women in physiological
cycle, of pregnancy, within one month after giving birth, or in
mourning are not permitted to touch dedicated things. It
reveals the high place of Heaven God in folklore |
|
After 12 am of Jan. 9th, believers
have to bath and clean, and below Heaven God censer set a
dedication table completed with censer, offering box, red
candles, left and right-side flower sets, five kinds of meats,
four kinds of fruits, tea, red rice balls, cookies and candies,
paper money, and luck bill. Upon the auspicious time, firing
incenses to expel evils and stink, family members pray
respectively by genders and ages, male and elderly first. All
hold three incenses to sincerely pray for God¡¦s blessing, plug
them in the censer, knee down for three times and knock head for
nine times, refill tea for three times, burn paper money, pour
tea or alcohol on burned ash for a circle, and finally fire
firework |