| 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).
Dear Brother Jave Wu,
ReplyDeleteI found that its looked like taoism's custom is merely about hokkienese.
I'm a hainanese,and how's that.Did Taoism also about Hainanese.How the hainanese celebrate their custom accordingly to taoism ?was it different,or it's just the same with other clan ?
Yes, of cos they are Hainanese Taoist Customes, will share more with you soon
ReplyDeleteYes, of cos they are Hainanese Taoist Customes, will share more with you soon
ReplyDeleteYes, of cos they are Hainanese Taoist Customes, will share more with you soon
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