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Sacrificial Offering Or Oblation With Joss Stick And Candle Pray For God. The Jade Emperor In Chinese Culture, Traditional Religions And Myth Is One Of The Representations Of The First God. In Taoist Theology He Is Yuanshi Tianzun, One Of The Three Pure Ones, The Three Primordial Emanations Of The Tao. The Jade Emperor's Birthday Is Said To Be The Ninth Day Of The First Lunar Month. On This Day Taoist Temples Hold A Jade Emperor Ritual At Which Priests And Laymen Prostrate Themselves, Burn Incense And Make Food Offerings. In The Morning Of This Birthday, Chinese And Taiwanese Households Set Up An Altar Table With 3 Layers: One Top (Containing Offertories Of Six Vegetables, Noodles, Fruits, Cakes, Tangyuan, Vegetable Bowls, And Unripe Betel, All Decorated With Paper Lanterns) And Two Lower Levels (Containing The Five Sacrifices And Wines) To Honor The Deities Below The Jade Emperor. The Household Then Kneels Three Times And Kowtows Nine Times To Pay Homage And Wish Him A Long Life.

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Sacrificial offering or oblation with joss stick and candle pray for God. The Jade Emperor in Chinese culture, traditional religions and myth is one of the representations of the first god. In Taoist theology he is Yuanshi Tianzun, one of the Three Pure Ones, the three primordial emanations of the Tao. The Jade Emperor's Birthday is said to be the ninth day of the first lunar month. On this day Taoist temples hold a Jade Emperor ritual at which priests and laymen prostrate themselves, burn incense and make food offerings. In the morning of this birthday, Chinese and Taiwanese households set up an altar table with 3 layers: one top (containing offertories of six vegetables, noodles, fruits, cakes, tangyuan, vegetable bowls, and unripe betel, all decorated with paper lanterns) and two lower levels (containing the five sacrifices and wines) to honor the deities below the Jade Emperor. The household then kneels three times and kowtows nine times to pay homage and wish him a long life.

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