What are the customs of Taoism?

Taoist festivals are special ceremonies in Taoism to commemorate, celebrate, chant and recommend, and fasting ceremonies are held when the festivals come. Taoist festivals have long been related to folk activities and absorbed the traditional solar terms and seasons in China, so Taoist festivals are frequent. Taoist festivals are mostly folk festivals.

The Spring Festival in China begins in the twelfth lunar month and lasts until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, so the relationship between Taoism and folk customs can be discussed.

In the folk custom of Hong Kong, the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month was given to the Kitchen God, which opened the curtain of the new cloth. On New Year's Eve, Hong Kong people went to Huang Xian Temple in Akamatsu to burn incense. On the first day of the lunar calendar, incense is set to welcome the god of wealth; The lathe worker's birthday is on the third day; On the eighth day, "Welcome Shun Xing", an altar was set up in the temple to worship the stars; The ninth day is the birthday of the jade emperor; The 15th is the official birthday of Shangyuan, and it is also the Lantern Festival. A series of festival customs, mostly in temple fairs.

origin

In Taoism, the birthdays of san huang, who originated from primitive religions' worship of nature such as heaven, earth and water —— Wei Zi, Qing Xu and Dong Yin —— are Shangyuan (the 15th day of the first month), Zhongyuan (the 15th day of July) and Xia Yuan (the 15th day of October) respectively, and these three days are collectively referred to as Sanyuan Festival.

Every three-day festival, Shanxin goes to the temple to pray and avoid disaster. Emperor Tianguan's birthday coincides with the Lantern Festival (Lantern Festival), which is the first festival after celebrating the Spring Festival. The birthday of the local emperor coincides with the Buddhist bonsai, and a relief will be held. Compared with the birthdays of the other two emperors, Emperor Shuiguan's birthday is not so prosperous because there are no overlapping customs and activities.