Life Center/Reported by Zheng Yurong
Nantou Puli holds a prayer ceremony every 12 years, and three years later, it holds a three-fold festival ceremony. This is an important local cultural event with a history of a hundred years. This year’s (2023) “Sanxian Qingjiao Festival” will be held in December. At that time, villagers will need to fast and eat vegetarian food for 5 days. Many local restaurants will also remove meat food from their shelves. Although it is not mandatory, this is already a requirement for the whole town. This is a tacit custom. In previous years, villagers even held public trials of shops selling non-vegetarian food during the event. Some people who eat non-vegetarian food questioned that this was tantamount to “religious kidnapping” and hoped that people of different faiths would be respected and tolerated. In response to this, the Puli Town Office encouraged townspeople to participate in the event, but it would not force everyone to be vegetarian, nor would it stipulate that restaurants can only sell vegetarian food. It also called on vegetarians not to go to public trials of meat eaters and vendors. Stores selling meat and vegetables.
Advertisement (Please continue reading this article) Nantou Puli holds a prayer ceremony every 12 years, and holds a three-fold memorial ceremony every 3 years. The picture shows the 2020 Qing Jiao event to pray for the safety of the country. (Picture/reproduced from Puli Hengji Palace Puli Mazu FB)
▲Puli, Nantou holds a prayer ceremony every 12 years, and holds a three-fold ritual ceremony every 3 years. The picture shows the 2020 Qing Jiao event to pray for the safety of the country. (Picture/reproduced from Puli Hengji Palace Puli Mazu FB)
The Puli Jiao Festival in Nantou has a century-old history and is a major local religious celebration. In 2022, it was even included in the “Folklore Intangible Cultural Assets of Nantou County”. A “Praying for Peace and Peace” event has been held in 2020. Three years later, in December 2023, the “Three Presenting Jiao Ceremony” will be held again. It will be considered complete only after the ceremony is completed.
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According to the announcement from Puli Hengji Temple, this year’s “Three Xian Qingjiao Dharma Ceremony” will be held from December 16th to 18th. Starting from the 13th, people must fast and eat vegetarian food for 5 days. Although there are no mandatory regulations, local participation in the Qing Jiao activities is extremely high, and some restaurant operators will suspend the sale of non-vegetarian food during the period.
However, when the Qing Jiao Festival was held in 2020, a public PO website once publicly scrutinized restaurant operators selling meat food, and issued an article accusing “Puli people should understand what making a Jiao Festival is. There are still people in Puli who sell meat food and do not cooperate with the 12-year-old Jiao Festival. very angry”. Some people countered that it is a personal decision to be vegetarian or not, and vegetarians should not force others to do so in the name of religion.
According to the “ETtoday News Cloud” report, since the Sanxian Qingjiao festival at the end of this year requires vegetarianism for five days, some people questioned why everyone was kidnapped for a religious event in the hope of respecting the different religious beliefs of each town citizen. In response, Liu Zhengdao, the chief secretary of the Puli Town Office, responded that the town office encourages townspeople to participate in the event, but it will not force everyone to be vegetarian, nor will it stipulate that restaurants can only sell vegetarian food. It also calls on vegetarians not to go to public trials for meat-eating. and shops selling non-vegetarian food.
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