Taiwan - Keelung - Pudu
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Back alley temple during Ghost Month. People usually come here for Bai-Bai, the prayers meant for honoring one's ancestral spirits and gods.
Ghost Month Zhongyuan Jie (or, to be politically correct ’month of wandering spirits’) is fairly celebrated across the Orient to pitty and support the roaming spirits. Whereas the annual Tomb Sweeping Day Qingming paired with biweekly tributes and individual death anniversaries suggests honoring one’s ancestry. Thus, countless temple fairs and gods birthdays, well, basically any random day of the year grant an opportune moment to seek protection and prosperity from the deities. Bai-Bai prayers are commonly referring to the heartfelt act of corresponding with ancestors and gods. Aside from the temple grounds, where one may Bai-Bai whenever otherworldly assistance is required, shop owners or the entire personnel of large enterprises are permitted to message the gods in front of their place of business twice per lunar month – on the 2nd and 16th. Families, by contrast, lay out food offerings and burn spiritual money (joss paper/ hell money/ ghost money) in front of their living place monthly on the 1st and the 15th. In temples around the corner, food offerings are rarely involved – in fact, if someone flocks to a temple around the corner with edible gifts at a random day, things must have gone terribly wrong for them.
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- Claudio Sieber
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