In the past, tens of thousands of people would flock to Luermen Tianhou Palace on New Year's Eve. This year, the first incense grabbing activity was canceled for the third time and replaced with a Chinese New Year gathering.

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[Reporter Wang Shuxiu/Tainan Report] After 2 years, the Datianhou Temple resumes the ceremony this year and opens the temple gate on New Year's Eve to grab the first incense!

Chairman Zeng Jilian said that the gate of the temple will be opened at 11:00 p.m. on the 21st (New Year’s Eve), and everyone is welcome to participate in the grand event. In addition, we will provide sedan chair legs to welcome the good luck, and send 7,500 copies of the "Raising Eyebrow Rabbit Qi" Zodiac Royal Shou , to remind you to wear a mask.

Luermen Tianhou Temple will maintain the temple gate opening ceremony at 12:00 p.m. this year, but will replace the first-hand incense with the "New Year's Group Worship". This is the third year since the outbreak of the epidemic that the first-ever incense-grabbing event has been cancelled. Temple ginseng incense, after the group worship, 3600 pieces of Matsu coins for the Year of the Rabbit will be sent.

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The two most crowded Tiangong Temples on New Year's Eve in downtown Tainan do not have temple gates open (Tiangong Temples do not close the temple gates) and the custom of grabbing incense sticks. They only send money mothers or lucky red envelopes after group worship. Among them, the first temple in Taiwan The Temple of Heaven is expected to send out 1,000 lucky red envelopes starting at 11:15; Kaiji Yuhuang Palace will send out 30,000 money mothers starting at 10:30; Mayor Huang Weizhe will also appear in the two Tiangong Temples and send 500 copies each The mayor's red envelope.

There is also a huge crowd, and there is also the Xiluo Temple on Nanshi Street, the National Guangze Zunwang Faith Center, which will leave the temple gate at 11:15 p.m. Pancakes, tangerines, 1000 Xiangshi Xianrui ornaments and Spring Festival couplets, will be distributed to believers at the scene after the group worship is complete.

On New Year's Eve, Xiluo Hall on Nanshi Street opened the temple door for group worship, and prepared to share the Pengpai marriage ceremony with the believers on site.

(Photo by reporter Wang Shuxiu)