9 Emperor God Festival part 1

Ok. First thing I want to say is SORRY for abandoning my blog for this few days. I am actually busy with prayers. As most of the Chinese know, now is the time for us to be dovoted to the God by be a vegetarian for 10 days. Some would prefer 3 days or 7 days but as for me, I choose 10 days. The real days is only 9 days but we have to eat a day earlier to 'clean' ourselves. This few days, I had being in and out of the temple for ceremonies and blablabla. Ohya, I am the only vegetarian in my house since two years back. Its a bit troublesome but its ok. I don't mind. Well, I am sincere to this. hehex... Ok. Back to last week, I went to Dharsh Dwali open house. Something that I don't expected occured and I am very happy with it. Thanks for the invite Dharsh.


Here are some pictures of the Kow Wong Yea festival. These photos are on the 3rd day which is the day when they bring the Gods out for a 'walk'.

See how the did the piercing?

One of the Gods

Long iron sword or something like that.

With bicycle

Going round the fire

The Long Yea's 'boat'

Again????

Lion dance is also included.

The drum 'boat'

I tried to upload videos but I can't. To every readers expecially Fuziana, please see me if you want to see k? I even had the peircing process video. Maybe I shall be uploading later from youtube. Now I am uploading at youtube. Damn slow. lolx.

hehex... This is not my first time see this but this is my first snap it and posting it in somewhere public. Its a great experience though. This year I plan to walk across the fire ceremony but I don't think so that I will due to some reasons(shall not tell it here). hurm... Shall be uploading more pictures soon.

By the way, just for hte info of other readers, there were two temples relating to this event here in Butterworth,the old and new one(thats what we, locals call). The new one is the big and nice temple while the old temple is normal one but with more religious activity going on. I went to both temples and found it great. WEll, if you are a religious one, you might want to visit the old temple and see the ceremonies but if you are just a tourist, you may want to see the new temple. Both the temples are located about 3oo-400 metres away only. You can actually visit BOTH if you favour to do so. As this event is an annual activity, you can visit once a year, nine days each on the 1st of the ninth month-9th of the ninth month according to the Chinese calender which is usualy one months later than our usual calender. It is an event not to be miss by both local and tourist. Enjoy^^