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Western Calendar
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Lunar Calender
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Event &
Customs
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Object of Worship
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Explanation
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1st
day of 1st months
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Chinese
New Year, Inscriptions on the doorsFirecrackers
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Origin
of Customs: Taoist charms
Purpose:
to drive away spirits
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p.9
p.14.15
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1st
months, 9th day
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Birthday
of God of Heaven, sacrifices, candle sticks, burning of longevity money
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Jade
Emperor Chang I
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p.16-18
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1st
months 13th day
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Birthday
of Kuan Yu, worshiped as idol primarily by business men
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Kuan
Yu
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p.18-21
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1st
months, 15th day
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Lantern
Festival
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Origin:
Three superstitious fairy tales
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p.
16-24
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2nd
months 3rd day
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Birthday
of the God of Literature
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Wen
Chang, was a historic person; another tradition refers to Wen Chang as
a spirit star.
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p.25-26
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3rd
months, between 1st and 10th day
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Clear
and Bright Festival, artemisia cake,
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No
god or spirit is worshipped on this day
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p.
27-29
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3rd
months, between 3rd and 10th day
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Cold
Food Festi- val, the day be- foreClear
and Bright Festival, cold spring rolls
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Duke
Chieh Tsu Tuei
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p.29-31
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3rd
month, 23rd day
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Ma-chu’s
Birth- day, burn incense
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Lin
Mo, who lived at the time of the Sung Dynasty
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p.32-33
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5th
month, 5th day, (also known as Double Fifth)
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Fifth
Day Festival,dragon boat races,
hanging fragrant incense around the neck, sticking artemisia, banyan and
sweet flag on the door- posts, noon-time water
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In
memorial of Chu Yuan, a his- torical person (343-285 B.C.) with a pure
and loyal spirit. While introuble
he lamentably commit suicide
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p.33-38
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5th
month, 11th day
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Birthday
of the City God, casting of diving blocks, worshipped as if he were
an earthly mandarin who administers justice
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Book
of Rites: During the Ming Dynasty the city god was given more honor and
divided into classes.
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p.39-42
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7th
month, 7th day
(
also known as Double Seventh)
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Birthday
of the Weaving Maid, children below 16yrs pray to the Seventh Maid for
protection; : thank- offering ( pig, sheep,Taiwanese-
opera), prayer for beautiful workman-
ship
meeting,
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This
popular tradition belongs to the realms of fairy tales
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p.
43-44
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7th
month, 15th day
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Festival
of the Hungry Ghosts, offerings to the de- ceased, slaughtering of pigs,
Taiwanese operas.
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deceased
relatives
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p.
45-49
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8th
month,15th day,
Moon
Festival
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Prayer
to the goddess of the moon, moon-cakes, enjoy- ing the moon on the night
of the mid- au- tumn festival, thro- wing the embroidered ball
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Goddess
of the Moon
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p.50-52
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9th
month, 9th day
“Double
Ninth”
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Mounting
the Heights Festival, birthday of Chung-yang Ti-chun, Spread a festival,
closing the doors, climb moun- tains, drink wine and make merry
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The
Ying Yang principle, belief in a superstitious fairy tale.
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p.53-54
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11th
month
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Winter
Solstice Festival, winter festival dumplings ,
contracts
concerning rent, buying, selling and mortgaging are signed, contracts end
at this day or are ex- tended, after eating the Winter Festival dumplings..
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Ancestors,
gods,
worship,
five kind of sacrifices, light incense and candles, set-off firecrackers,
burn spirit money,, thanks to the gods and prayer for protection, prosperity
and increase.
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p.
55-56
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12th
month, 16th day
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Final
Worship: Lavish worship, deli- cious food, invite em- ployees/people
who help them, boss: to say who continues to work for him; to inform about
salary increases.
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The
earth god
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p.57
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12th
month, 24th day,
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Sending
off the Gods, worship, Gods horse, cleaning of the chimney, sweeping
the house
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The
gods are sent off very early in the morning to ascend to heaven and report
to the Jade Emperor
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p.58-59
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12th
month, 25th day
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The
day the heavenly gods descend, don’t
demand a person to pay the debt or bor- row money from anyone; if he forgets,
the other person may beat him.
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The
gods after people in place of earthly gods. There must not be one god present
on earth, at this day.
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p.59
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12th
month,29th or 30th day
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Marriage
Month, so called adopted daughter most often at these days are gi- ven
in marriage
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The “adopted
daughters”
are given in marriage to escape calami- ties. Because of the approaching
Chinese New Years these mar- riages are performed economically.
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p.60-61
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