Introduction on Honouring Chuang Gong & Chuang Mu (祭祀床公床母簡介)

 
Chuang Gong Chuang Mu (床公床母), the common Addressing Term of the Deities that Protect the New Born Babies & Children under 12 Years Old (Lunar Age).

Usually these 2 Deities will stayed in the Home or the Bedroom where the Child is sleeping.

So how do we pay respect to them?

Usually we will do it on the 1st or 15th Day Night (農曆初一或十五日), if not, we will do it once in every month, on the Last Night of the Lunar Month (農曆月尾).

So what to prepare?

It's very simple, oneself or the couple just needed to prepare the following few items for the Paying of Respect:

1) 3 Incenses (三支清香 normal length)

2) 2 Red Candles (一對高腳紅燭 those with legs)

3) 1 Huat Kueh (一個發糕)

4) A bowl of Rice with a few pieces of Vegetables & a Chicken Drumlet (一碗白飯﹐幾根青菜及一個雞腿)

5) 3 stacks of Shou Jin (三疊壽金)

6) 1 stacks of Niao Mu Yi (一份鳥母衣 a stack of colorful papers that can be brought at Incense-shops, not easy to find it in Singapore)

7) 1 cup of Rice Wine or Chinese Tea (一杯米酒或清茶)

On the Night of Honouring (after 8.00Pm), oneself needed to use a Big Round Plate (大紅盤) to carry the items.

Place the Candles in the Huat Kueh and then placed the Big Round Plate on the Bed when the baby is resting, if not, on the Main Bed where the Parent is resting.

Light the Incenses and Sincerely Bow 3 times at the Bed. Report who you are and the name of the Child, including the Lunar Age.

After that, placed the Incenses onto the Huat Kueh.

5minutes later, just burnt off the Paper-offerings and the whole Honouring will considered completed.

Retrieved the Offerings and placed them in the Kitchen. Do not allowed any Children to touch or consume it. Only Adults are allowed to finish the items.

While Paying Respect to Chuan Gong Chuan Mu, oneself can recite the Following Praise Incantation dedicated to them:

九天監生大神及九天衛房聖母寶誥
Jiu Tian Jian Sheng Da Shen Ji Jiu Tian Wei Fang Sheng Mu Bao Gao

至心皈命禮。
Zhi Xin Gui Ming Li

東嶽子孫案。
Dong Yue Zi Sun An.

九天監生司。
Jiu Tian Jian Sheng Si

結秀成胎。
Jie Xiu Cheng Tai.

稟兩儀之造化。
Bing Liang Yi Zhi Zhao Hua

送生保產。
Song Sheng Bao Chan.

乃二聖之綱維。
Nai Er Sheng Zhi Gang Wei

燮理陰陽。
Bian Li Yin Yang.

散行痘疹。
San Xing Dou Chen

九天稱慶。
Jiu Tian Cheng Qing.

一視同仁。
Yi Shi Tong Ren

大悲大願。
Da Bei Da Yuan.

大聖大慈。
Da Sheng Da Ci

普濟普度
Pu Ji Pu Du

九天監生明素真君。
Jiu Tian Jian Sheng Ming Su Zhen Jun

多男多女
Duo Nan Duo Nv

九天衛房聖母元君。
Jiu Tian Wei Fang Sheng Mu Yuan Jun