Many palaces and temples in Taiwan will hold "grabbing incense" activities on New Year's Eve, but folklore expert Liao Dayi reminds the public to pay attention to safety, because not everyone is suitable for participation.

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[Reporter Xie Jieyu/Report from Nantou] This year’s Lunar New Year holiday lasts for 10 days. Coupled with the loosening of epidemic prevention measures, there are many celebrations in palaces and temples across Taiwan. Folklore expert Liao Dayi said that women who have funerals at home or menstruation should not compete with others. They also belong to the four zodiac signs of rat, rabbit, horse, and rooster. Warm, kind, respectful, thrifty, and let" 5 formulas, you can hope to turn bad luck into good luck.

Liao Dayi pointed out that there is a folk saying about the origin of "grabbing head incense" that the ninth day of the first lunar month of the Spring Festival is "Tian Gong Sheng", and every family will prepare offerings to worship "Tian Gong" on this day, and it is said that the Jade Emperor will give special blessings The person who planted the first stick of incense that day has the folk activity of "grabbing the first incense".

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Every night at 11 o'clock on the first day of the Lunar New Year, there is a palace temple that handles "grabbing incense". As soon as the temple gate is opened, people rush to the incense burner (or Tiangong burner) with burning incense in their hands. Uncleanness and uncleanness in funerals, so those who encounter these two things should avoid entering and leaving palaces and temples so as not to offend the gods.

However, the time to offer incense does not have to be on the first day of the Lunar New Year. In a broad sense, as long as you have a pious heart, the first incense stick in the morning and the first incense stick that everyone worships to the gods in the new year, Even when the temple gates are opened in the Spring Festival, the first batch of people who come to worship can be regarded as "first incense". The other three zodiac signs are biased, and they must cultivate their morality and self-cultivation. Don't push yourself in everything, and use the five virtues of gentleness, kindness, respect, frugality, and humility as the way to get along with others. bless.

Many palaces and temples in Taiwan will hold "grabbing incense" activities on New Year's Eve, but folklore expert Liao Dayi reminds the public to pay attention to safety, because not everyone is suitable for participation.

(Photo by reporter Xie Jieyu)