Showing posts with label 半年節. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 半年節. Show all posts

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Half Year Celebration Honouring 2012 (壬辰年半年節祭祀)

Start:     Aug 2, '12
End:     Aug 3, '12
Location:     All Over the World

Time flies, half a year had passed.

In Taoism & Chinese Culture, 15th & 16th Day of Lunar 6 Month is known as Half Year Festival or Half Year Celebration (半年節).

For Year 2012, it falls on 2 & 3 Aug, a Thursday & Friday.

In Hokkien Culture, on this Day, the Hokkien will prepared Single-color Sweet Dumplings (單色湯圓) to honour Ancestors, hoping that the Ancestors will bless on the descendants on Good Luck, Good Wealth and also, Good Harvesting that will be taking place in another 2-3 months time.



For Zhang Zhou Hokkien Tan Clan (福建漳州陳氏), the Zhang Zhou Tan descendants will prepared a special type of Dumpling which looks like Rice-kueh (飯粿) for the honouring of Ancestors (as shown below).