Went to the Nine Emperor Gods Festival at the Nine Emperor Gods temple in Ampang New Village on Saturday (13 October 2007). It's a Chinese festival celebrating the return of the Nine Emperor spirits from heaven to earth which is held on the ninth day, in the ninth moon in the Chinese lunar calendar (yes, I wiki-ed it). There's an interesting read written by Cheu Hock Thong entitled the Festival of the Nine Emperor Gods in Malaysia: Myth, Ritual and Symbol both in Adobe Acrobat version and HTML version. By the way, Cheu Hock Thong states that Ampang was originally Anbang (pronounced in a way that makes it sound 'dark society or secret society' in Chinese) and later on changed to a differently pronounced Anbang (which refers to 'peaceful society' in Chinese). Note: The Chinese language is a tonal language and thus a word can have different meanings when pronounced in different tones.
A whole lotta smoke
Joss sticks sticking out
Prayers
Stick 'em
Smoke sticks
Walking into the temple
Smokey experience in the temple
A fortune-telling session, if I'm not mistaken, or something like it
Lantern
The blue team having a rest
Spiral joss sticks
Part of prayer offerings?
Big Dragon joss sticks (Right) and a man hanging spiral joss sticks
Big Dragon joss sticks (foreground) and an industrial size furnace (background) to burn prayer papers
Opera performer having a rest reflected in the mirror
2 comments:
yes..i like the pictures :)
Thanks, adam k and BlackMagicWoman!
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