Today, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Zinan Temple in Zhushan Township, Nantou County was flooded with worshippers.

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[Reporter Xie Jieyu/Nantou Report] The lottery has been drawn!

Due to the consideration of epidemic prevention, Zinan Palace in Zhushan Township, Nantou County, for the first time on the first day of the Lunar New Year, did not open the public to line up to receive money mothers. Instead, it adopted a flash mob "surprise gift". However, there were still crowds of worshipers early in the morning. Said that the first day of the Lunar New Year is the first day of the Year of the Rabbit, which has the meaning of "renewing the beginning of one yuan and renewing all phenomena", so he announced through the radio that today is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, as long as the last two digits of the ID card number are "11" , Before 4:00 p.m. today, all can bring their original ID card or health insurance card to the Loan and Repayment Service Center to receive a set of mother coins for the Year of the Rabbit. The people who received them happily said: "Too lucky!"

In the early rural society, the economy was generally not rich. In order to make people prosper, the main god of Zinan Temple, Tudi Gong, distributed thin silver paper to believers, but because it was not easy to carry and easy to break, gold-plated and silver-plated papers were launched in 2012 in the Year of the Dragon. The lucky money mother, so that believers can carry it on their body or put it on the financial position at any time, so as to get the blessing of the gods.

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In previous years, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the temple would also distribute zodiac lucky money mothers. Although the central government has loosened the epidemic prevention measures, Zinan Temple still dare not take it lightly. It is afraid that the excessive crowds will become a breach of epidemic prevention, so it simply cancels the first day of the new year. The practice of sending money mothers has been changed to a flash-mob "surprise gift" mode at irregular times and locations.

At about 9 o'clock this morning, the temple broadcasted that the person who was able to get the mother-of-money set of coins was "11" at the end of the ID card. Many of them came from as far away as Xintai, Taipei, Keelung, Kaohsiung, etc. to receive their ID cards or health insurance cards, and they were surprised and delighted to be the lucky ones of the "Money Surprise Gift". Believe that your new year must be full of good luck.

Zhuang Qiu'an, chairman of the Zinan Palace Management Committee, pointed out that this year's totem of the Mother of Money is based on the statue of the Lord of the Land, the Jade Rabbit and peony flowers as the main design, and the peony flower representing wealth and honor is used as the background, accompanied by two gold ingots, gold and silver mother of money. The front is inlaid with the image of the Lord of the Land, and there are three types of gold coins, silver coins, and gold and silver boxed coins. I hope that under the blessing and protection of the gods, believers can achieve their wishes and be safe in the Year of the Golden Rabbit. And healthy.

As for whether the "Mother of Qian Surprise Gift" will reappear tomorrow on the second day of the Lunar New Year?

Zhuang Qiu'an said that he didn't know yet, and he had to wait until tomorrow to decide according to the will of the gods.

At the Zinan Temple in Zhushan Township, Nantou County, you can see people carrying golden roosters through the incense burner to pray for the blessing of the gods.

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At the Zinan Palace in Zhushan Township, Nantou County, people could be seen queuing up to receive the "Mother of Money Surprise Gift".

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Zhuang Qiu'an (left), chairman of Zinan Palace Management Committee, Zhushan Township, Nantou County, issued the Year of the Rabbit coin set to people with the number "11" at the end of their ID cards.

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Staff from Zinan Palace in Zhushan Township, Nantou County (left) checked whether the last 2 digits of people’s ID cards were the number “11” in the “Mother of Money Surprise Gift” event on Lunar New Year’s Day.

(Photo by reporter Xie Jieyu)