Tainan Guanyin Pavilion celebrates the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva's Christmas banquet with 180 tables. People come to sit down and eat. It is a real traditional flowing water banquet.

(Photo by reporter Wang Shuxiu)

[Reporter Wang Shuxiu/Tainan Report] Today (February 19th in the lunar calendar) is the birthday of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. The Grand Avalokitesvara Pavilion, a historic site in Tainan Municipality, has resumed holding a large-scale safety banquet after three years. There will be 180 tables, divided into four stages. , there are 90 round tables on site, and the waiters have to fight over the tables; no registration is required, people can be seated when they come, it is a real flowing table!

The Grand Avalokitesvara Pavilion is dedicated to Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. Every year on Avalokitesvara’s birthday, enlightenment day, renunciation day, and Buddha’s Bathing Festival, large-scale safety banquets are held. The flowing water seat mode, no matter believers, temple officials or anyone passing by, even homeless people can sit and eat at random, which symbolizes peace.

In the past, it was closed for 3 years due to the epidemic, and it finally resumed this year. At noon, more than a thousand people kept pouring in, and the surrounding area was full of cars and motorcycles, which was quite spectacular.

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The temple officials said that the flowing water seats are different from the desks. The flowing water seats are often used on special days such as the birthday of the gods and gods of the temple. You can enjoy it, and leave after eating. If there is a situation where the table is opened but there is no food, we will provide takeaway food.

As the epidemic has just slowed down, the temple staff on the scene also kept reminding the importance of serving chopsticks, female spoons and epidemic prevention measures.

According to legend, Guanyin Bodhisattva was born in Xinglin State on February 19 of the lunar calendar, so Chinese temples often hold grand celebrations on this day.

The Daguanyin Pavilion will hold a blessing ceremony on February 18th of the lunar calendar. We respectfully invite the monks and masters of the Daxian Temple in Baihe Volcano to pray for the safety of the believers, and provide believers with a disaster relief booklet for registering the merits of happiness. The believers who personally participated in the group cultivation were sincere and solemn The sound of fan chant is endless.

The Guanyin Pavilion in Tainan opened 180 tables to celebrate the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva's Christmas banquet. A large crowd of people poured into the temple and parked motorcycles around the temple, which was quite spectacular.

(Photo by reporter Wang Shuxiu)

Today is Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva's Christmas day, and people flock to palaces and temples to worship and celebrate his birthday.

(Photo by reporter Wang Shuxiu)