Xiluo Fuxing Palace took the top spot, and Ashin and Chen Xinhong from Xizhi took the top spot.

(Photographed by reporter Zhan Shihong)

[Reporter Zhan Shihong/Yunlin Report] Yunlin Xiluo Fuxing Temple's New Year's Eve event, which was suspended for two years due to the epidemic, resumed activities this year. The temple gate opened on time at 0:00 on the first day of the new year, and believers flocked. Chen Xinhong (30 years old) was fast enough to win this year's top incense, a plaque, a cash prize, plus a Taiping Ma ceramic doll and cultural and creative products.

On New Year's Eve, Xiluo Fuxing Palace held the "2023 Douzhen and Taiping Mother Reunion to Welcome the New Year" event. According to tradition, the temple closed the temple gate at 10:30 on New Year's Eve, which represented the end of the "Year of the Tiger". The factor has been closed for two years, and it resumed this year, attracting a large number of believers to participate. The temple also prepared thousands of "blessing balloons" for believers to write down new wishes for the new year and release them together. I hope that the new hope will reach heaven and everyone can realize their dreams.

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At midnight on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Fuxing Palace opened its temple gates, and crowds of people poured in. As a result, 30-year-old Chen Xinhong, who came from Xizhi District, New Taipei, snatched the first incense, and the chairman of Fuxing Palace, Yang Wenzhong, awarded the first incense plaque and bonus.

Chen Xinhong said that he came to Xiluo Town yesterday. This is the first time he has come to participate in the Spring Festival activities of Fuxing Palace. He is very nervous. There is no secret to grab the top incense. , he replied, "I wish everyone good health." He said that he would come to participate again next year.

After the activity of grabbing the first incense, Fuxing Palace distributed 8,888 US dollars in red envelopes to the people who went to the temple early in the morning to pray for blessings.

Xiluo Fuxing Palace took the top spot, and Ashin and Chen Xinhong from Xizhi took the top spot.

(Photographed by reporter Zhan Shihong)