Reporter Zheng Yinxiang / Report from Taipei
▲Mazu from Baishatun came to Chaotian Palace in Beigang to “enter the fire”. (Photo/photographed by reporter Zheng Yinxiang)
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On the sixth day of the annual Baishatun Matsu Pilgrimage Festival, the “Fire Entrance” ceremony is held at Chaotian Palace in Beigang. This is also one of the climaxes of the entire incense pilgrimage event. Start the return route, but many people come to participate in the fire, and you will also find that the shops around Chaotian Temple sell matchboxes, but those who have been to Xiangdengjiao or local people know that this has been passed down for many years custom.
▼▲A lot of incense burners come to Beigang and buy matchboxes to go home, which symbolizes that they also bring incense back. (Photo/photographed by reporter Zheng Yinxiang)
Many people have seen matchboxes among the hot items in the store near Beigang Chaotian Temple. People who experience it for the first time may not know the reason, but in fact, buying matchboxes has a lot to do with the “fire” of Baishatun Mazu. “Sanli News Network “The reporter visited the local store and revealed that the main purpose of the Baisha Tun Mazu coming to Chaotian Temple in Beigang is to obtain the incense sticks for thousands of years to enrich the spiritual power of the Mazu mother-in-law. , After following Mazu to pilgrimage, you can buy a matchbox locally, you can take it to the incense burner, and then bring it home, which symbolizes that you also brought home the incense from Beigang Chaotian Temple. Some matchboxes will also have a firewood printed on the back It is handed down, but some stores sell it without it.
▲If you buy a matchbox from the incense lamp foot, you will take it to the Beigang Chaotian Palace incense burner. (Photo/photographed by reporter Zheng Yinxiang)
And the matchbox brought home can be used to light candles or incense at home, which can have the meaning of blessing and protecting oneself. Therefore, many incense burners who followed the Baishatun Mazu to Beigang Chaotian Temple to offer incense are holding ” On the day of the “Entering the Fire” ceremony, I will buy another box of matchboxes, so that I can also take this “Ten Thousand Years of Incense” home with me.
