Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Heavenly Lord Tian Guan Inspection Day 2011 (辛卯年上元天官大帝考校巡天下)





After a long stretch of Celebration for Lunar New Year, its time to do an Official Round-off for the Festival.

Its again the 15th Day of Lunar 1st Month (農曆正月十五日) - in 2011, it falls on 17 Feb, which is also known as Yuan Xiao (元宵) or Shang Yuan (上元).

In Taoism, this is also the Day for Heavenly Lord Tian Guan (天官大帝) to conduct his Annual Inspection for the Mortals in the Mortal Realm (考校巡天下).

For those who are interested in finding out more, please do feel free to visit the following links:

Pictures of Tian Guan:
http://javewu.multiply.com/photos/album/302

Intro on Shang Yuan:
http://javewu.multiply.com/photos/album/620/620

For Higher Res Picture of the Poster, please proceed to this link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/taoism_deity_singapore_2007/photos/album/1373716197/pic/list

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