To mark the continuation of family tree diagram and the launching of the genealogy books, Taiping’s Lee Ancestral Temple holds a big celebration last year. Genealogy is primarily to promote the Chinese culture, and also satisfy the trace the origin of the Chinese civil society, the desire to inquire about the ancestors. In addition to records of a family rise and fall migration, genealogy has also recorded emigration, the marriage, breeding status and family ties between the home country and the rest of the world. The organizer has invited the lineage descendants to participate in a grand celebration and Malaysians are the greatest participants in number. Our taoist group was selected to host the ceremony.
The celebration mainly divides into the trilogy and first salvation ritual of the spirits of ancestors. The folk is accustomed to put lantern floated along river before the salvation begins. Its main purpose is to invite drowns in the water spirit, to follow the affiliation floated lantern for grand feast so as to offer them the quest for spiritual enlightenment. The people believed that the lantern floated along river drift further can attract more spirits, and in return can bless person or enterprise as well as the entire family safe and prosperous.
Besides the official ceremony in proper, the finale of its celebration is to allow the lineage descendants pay their visit to palace and temple for the purpose of thanksgiving offerings. It is indeed a test of the tolerance and the willpower activity altogether. All participants including taoist priests go over hill on foot to the renowned Miao Fang Temple, ford along the river attaches a hundred year historical pine tree as well as camphor tree the famous Temple of Chen Bang, and also tour within the secluded compound a small tribe village stayed a small shrine called the Brook Palace and so on.
This kind of genealogy book launching celebration or commonly known as ancestor worship is hardly seen. I was honored to participate in these events although I have to work under the temperature of 5 degree which I believe it is a challenge for me who travel from a tropical island and thankful to the organizing committee for giving us the opportunity to lead the ceremony.
The celebration mainly divides into the trilogy and first salvation ritual of the spirits of ancestors. The folk is accustomed to put lantern floated along river before the salvation begins. Its main purpose is to invite drowns in the water spirit, to follow the affiliation floated lantern for grand feast so as to offer them the quest for spiritual enlightenment. The people believed that the lantern floated along river drift further can attract more spirits, and in return can bless person or enterprise as well as the entire family safe and prosperous.
Besides the official ceremony in proper, the finale of its celebration is to allow the lineage descendants pay their visit to palace and temple for the purpose of thanksgiving offerings. It is indeed a test of the tolerance and the willpower activity altogether. All participants including taoist priests go over hill on foot to the renowned Miao Fang Temple, ford along the river attaches a hundred year historical pine tree as well as camphor tree the famous Temple of Chen Bang, and also tour within the secluded compound a small tribe village stayed a small shrine called the Brook Palace and so on.
This kind of genealogy book launching celebration or commonly known as ancestor worship is hardly seen. I was honored to participate in these events although I have to work under the temperature of 5 degree which I believe it is a challenge for me who travel from a tropical island and thankful to the organizing committee for giving us the opportunity to lead the ceremony.
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