Honolulu Star Bulletin. Wednesday, February 6, 1957 - Tales about Hawaii, Clarice B. Taylor
Chinese Grandpa who lived in Honolulu was fortunate. He was near Chinese temples and scholars who conducted Chinese language schools.
Chinese Grandpa who live in the country of had to walk miles to consult a scholar who could translate or write Chinese letters for him or advise him of festival dates in the Chinese Almanac.
Grandpa did not attempt to keep the worship days of all deities.
He had a particular deity to who he was devoted - perhaps Kuan Yin - and he made his devotions regularly on the First day of the new moon and on the 15th day of the lunar month.
If he lived in the city, Grandpa may have had a statue of his special deity standing on a shelf with his ancestor tablet.
He regularly placed offerings of wine, rice, and the three living things - fish, fowl and pork - before the figure.
PICTURE OF DEITY
If he did not have a statue, he has a picture of the deity or a scroll with the name on it in Chinese characters.
It was only in the temples that incense was lighted on the days devoted to the worship of deities.
For instance, in the first month (February of 1957) almost every day is a worship day for some deity.
The first day (Chinese New Year) is a big day. Offerings must be made to the high gods (four) - Seong Yin - the moon goddess - and to the ancestors.
The second day of the first month is the day to make offerings to a great benefactor who invented the wheel. As a deified being, he is worship[p]ed as Chia (carriage) Kung (male).
DAYS OF WORSHIP
Sung Thunz Yang is worship[p]ed on the third day, the goddess who protects the bamboo container which holds chopsticks is worship[p]ed on the fourth, the king of the grain on the eighth, the Jade Emperor Yuk Wong, on the ninth.
Tu Sun, and earth god, is worship[p]ed on the 10th day of the first month; the moon goddess on the 15th; the god of order and pacification on the 16th; the door god on the 19th; the god of wealth and children, on the 20th and the great god of wealth on the 26th.
Chinese remember the youth Chew Choi Tong Gee on the 20th day by telling their children about the unfortunate lad who abused his mother and accidentally killed her on the day he had intended to reform.
NEXT: Moon worship
* worship[p]ed - original to this text
Chinese Grandpa who lived in Honolulu was fortunate. He was near Chinese temples and scholars who conducted Chinese language schools.
Chinese Grandpa who live in the country of had to walk miles to consult a scholar who could translate or write Chinese letters for him or advise him of festival dates in the Chinese Almanac.
Grandpa did not attempt to keep the worship days of all deities.
He had a particular deity to who he was devoted - perhaps Kuan Yin - and he made his devotions regularly on the First day of the new moon and on the 15th day of the lunar month.
If he lived in the city, Grandpa may have had a statue of his special deity standing on a shelf with his ancestor tablet.
He regularly placed offerings of wine, rice, and the three living things - fish, fowl and pork - before the figure.
PICTURE OF DEITY
If he did not have a statue, he has a picture of the deity or a scroll with the name on it in Chinese characters.
It was only in the temples that incense was lighted on the days devoted to the worship of deities.
For instance, in the first month (February of 1957) almost every day is a worship day for some deity.
The first day (Chinese New Year) is a big day. Offerings must be made to the high gods (four) - Seong Yin - the moon goddess - and to the ancestors.
The second day of the first month is the day to make offerings to a great benefactor who invented the wheel. As a deified being, he is worship[p]ed as Chia (carriage) Kung (male).
DAYS OF WORSHIP
Sung Thunz Yang is worship[p]ed on the third day, the goddess who protects the bamboo container which holds chopsticks is worship[p]ed on the fourth, the king of the grain on the eighth, the Jade Emperor Yuk Wong, on the ninth.
Tu Sun, and earth god, is worship[p]ed on the 10th day of the first month; the moon goddess on the 15th; the god of order and pacification on the 16th; the door god on the 19th; the god of wealth and children, on the 20th and the great god of wealth on the 26th.
Chinese remember the youth Chew Choi Tong Gee on the 20th day by telling their children about the unfortunate lad who abused his mother and accidentally killed her on the day he had intended to reform.
NEXT: Moon worship
* worship[p]ed - original to this text
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