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What is the first nine days of the first month of the year

The ninth day of the first month of the first lunar month is commonly known as Tiangong Sheng, one of the traditional Chinese lunar festivals.

The ninth day of the first month of the first month of the year is commonly known as Tiangong Sheng, one of the traditional Chinese lunar calendar festivals. It is the birth anniversary of the highest god in the heaven _ Jade Emperor, the Lord of Heaven is the Jade Emperor, the highest god who dominates the three realms, he is the highest god who commands the gods in the ten directions inside and outside the three realms as well as all the souls on earth, and represents the supreme heaven. The traditional folklore of this day, women more incense and candles, fasting bowls, placed in the patio at the mouth of the alleyway in the open air to worship the heavens, and ask for God's blessings, sent the Chinese working people a kind of exorcism, to avoid disasters, and pray for good luck. At the same time, the Fujian folk belief that the ninth day of the first month is also the birth of the Min Yue Wang Wuxu. And the folk in Dazhou, Sichuan regard the ninth day of the first month as the Yuanjiu Ascension Festival. In Chinese folklore, the ninth day of the first month of the Jade Emperor's Christmas, commonly known as the "Jade Emperor will", rumor has it that all the gods and goddesses in heaven and on the ground, in this day are to celebrate grandly. Jade Emperor in the waxing moon on the 25th will personally descend to the world, inspecting the situation of all parties. The Jade Emperor will reward the good and punish the bad according to the goodness and badness of the living beings. The Jade Emperor returns to the heavenly court in the afternoon of his birthday. At that time, Taoist palaces and temples hold grand celebrations and dipping ceremonies. Jade Emperor's birthday, people will hold ceremonies to celebrate, from midnight zero hour until four o'clock in the morning of the same day, can be heard non-stop firecrackers. On the ninth day of the first month of the temple held Laitian Fajie, because the days uphold the King's mandate, touring the earth, with compassion to assist virtuous people, reward good and punish evil, the world is the camping of this for Buddha Laitian Fajie, chanting confessions, give static food, in order to feed the earth side of the three jewels, the protection of the world of heaven and its entourage.