About Me:
I’m Jayson Yeoh, a member of City Sketchers Penang, Malaysia.
I outline myself as a journey sketcher; with out sketching actions, touring holds no actual that means for me.
Typically, I journey with easy sketching instruments (akin to a sketchbook, sketch pen, watercolor, and brush), exploring the unknown forward throughout every journey. I report the mysterious and attention-grabbing scenes of the journey, including some textual content to visually and verbally current my journey tales to the general public.
I’ve all the time believed that these sketches usually are not simply my private journey tales; they’re additionally the shared reminiscences of myself and the passersby on the sketching areas. They’ve informed me many issues concerning the native individuals and occasions, particularly throughout my travels in India, the place the tales of the residents got here to life by way of the comb in my hand.
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Celebration Rituals
The 9 Emperor Gods’ birthday is widely known from the primary to the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, with preparations beginning on the final day of the eighth lunar month, leading to a 10-day occasion.
At midday on the thirtieth day of the eighth lunar month, the temple shows a “Excessive Lantern” to sign the approaching birthday of the 9 Emperor Gods. Temple officers, leaders, and devotees carry a palanquin to the riverside to welcome the deities again, with Taoist clergymen conducting the rituals.
On the second night time of the ninth lunar month, the deity instructs the temple to welcome the Marshal at a selected time.
Navy choices happen on the third, sixth, and ninth days of the ninth lunar month, with the temple making ready vegetarian dishes for worship and sharing them with devotees and the troopers of the 9 Emperor Gods.
On the eighth day of the ninth lunar month, a brief picket bridge is in-built entrance of the temple. Throughout the night ceremony, devotees cross the bridge whereas Taoist clergymen bless them. Some, guided by mediums, stroll barefoot over burning coals to hunt safety from disasters.
On the final day of the ninth lunar month, devotees maintain a grand worship ceremony to bid farewell to the deities with dragon and lion dances. They carry incense to the riverside, and the temple removes the Excessive Lantern, marking the top of the 9 Emperor Gods’ celebration.
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On the thirtieth day of the eighth lunar month at midday, the temple raised a “Excessive Lantern” to have fun the 9 Emperor Gods’ birthday & to mark the 9 Emperor Gods’ birthday and the possession of the mediums by the gods.
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The streets close to the 9 Emperor Gods’ temple are adorned with yellow cloths, and devotees, wearing white and following a vegetarian food regimen for 9 days, collect there. The Dou Mu Gong temple presents complimentary vegetarian meals to the devotees.
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Throughout the 9 Emperor Gods celebration, non permanent meals stalls promoting vegetarian meals like rice, noodles, dumplings, and biscuits could be discovered across the metropolis. Individuals collect at vegetarian meals stalls on the streets for meals along with having fun with vegetarian meals on the temple.
Throughout the festive interval, native residents, together with males, ladies, and youngsters, volunteer on the temple to arrange choices like desserts, rice, greens, and drinks.
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Religious believers go to the temple to burn incense and pray for blessings.
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Spirit mediums, often known as Ji Tong, can impersonate gods akin to Prince Nezha, Deity Ji Gong, Nice Sage Equal to Heaven (Solar Wukong), or Bodhisattva Guanyin. The mediums stamp devotees’ garments with a pink seal symbolizing the gods’ safety (proven within the backside proper nook of the sketch).
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Throughout the 9 Emperor Gods pageant, every temple encompasses a gold-colored paper boat used on the final night time of the pageant to ship the 9 Emperor Gods again. A parade takes place with devotees following the floats till they attain the river, the place the boat is burned, marking the pageant’s conclusion.
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Temples host numerous performances like puppet reveals and dragon or lion dances to draw extra devotees for prayers, with night time performances being notably spectacular.
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Exhibits each the entrance and backstage scenes of a hand-puppet present.
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Exhibits the dragon gown (clothes and hat worn by the emperor) of the 9 Emperor Gods.
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Exhibits weapons within the 9 Emperor Gods’ temple.
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Exhibits a nook of the principle entrance of the Dou Mu Gong temple.
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Exhibits a wide range of choices and paper gadgets for worship.
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Exhibits the emperor’s boat with prayer slips fluttering within the wind. The yellow slips should clearly state the title of the particular person praying for security.
