今天是农历正月初九。这可是槟城人重要的日子，尤其对于福建人来说，正月初九拜天公比农历正月初一还来得重要。今天我去了姓周桥凑凑热闹。哇噻，好多人！除了可以看一看林冠英的背影，还可以参观姓周桥。当然最重要的是看看当地人拜祝天公。到底农历正月初九拜天公是不是福建人的节日？看看以下的文章片段吧！
正月初九拜天公是福建人的節日？
在許多中國風俗的書籍里，都有各地于正月初九慶祝天公誕的記載，如北京、浙江、江蘇、廣東等，道教經書云：玉皇大帝誕生于正月初九午時。所以當天是天公誕，而非民間謠傳的福建人避清兵大屠殺，直初九方無事，人們因此大事慶祝。
因為福建人保存了拜天公古俗，所以人們以為那是福建人的節日，其實不然。在北馬，非福建籍的華人也拜啊。南馬的潮州人不拜天公，可是北馬的潮州人卻與福建人一起慶祝天公誕！《新年風俗志》廣東潮州︰“初九是天地的生日，家家戶戶都要拜祝的，這天早晨祭天地父母……”不過北馬潮州人不用甘蔗，他們認為那是福建人逃難時躲入甘蔗園避難之故。其實福建人拜甘蔗，取其有頭有尾，從頭甜到尾之意義也，避難甘蔗園只是附會的傳說而已。
星洲日報／田野行腳．李永球．2008.02.03
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
New Year... New Hope
Happy Chinese New Year!
I just came back from my hometown. Very tiring… For the whole week, I will need to do housework in the morning, have a nap during afternoon and help my parent at restaurant at night. I usually slept at 3am. That’s why I said tiring. Everyone said economy downturn… all of us must save money… cut cost etc. But I don’t see this happen to the customers in restaurant! More customers than previous years. People still willing to pay at higher cost for meal. May be SP is a small town and people there still not able to feel the tension. It’s good anyhow. Especially my parent. :P
Although this year I started to give ang pao, I also received ang pao! Haha… my friend said usually 1st year after married still can get ang pao. So good! This is also the 1st year I went to grandmother-in-law’s house for CNY.
Yesterday hubby and I went to Penang Heritage and CNY celebration at Georgetown. It was a great experience. A lot of activities there. We can see some of the tradition of Chinese. There was a lot of Chinese food there as well. Although there were many people and the weather is so hot, we were still enjoying in visiting some of the famous place like Cheah Kong Si, Islamic museum and so on. I saw Lim Guan Eng!! He was going to leave after refreshment, he just walked beside me with a lot of bodyguards.
Here is the only one photo I took yesterday.
I just came back from my hometown. Very tiring… For the whole week, I will need to do housework in the morning, have a nap during afternoon and help my parent at restaurant at night. I usually slept at 3am. That’s why I said tiring. Everyone said economy downturn… all of us must save money… cut cost etc. But I don’t see this happen to the customers in restaurant! More customers than previous years. People still willing to pay at higher cost for meal. May be SP is a small town and people there still not able to feel the tension. It’s good anyhow. Especially my parent. :P
Although this year I started to give ang pao, I also received ang pao! Haha… my friend said usually 1st year after married still can get ang pao. So good! This is also the 1st year I went to grandmother-in-law’s house for CNY.
Yesterday hubby and I went to Penang Heritage and CNY celebration at Georgetown. It was a great experience. A lot of activities there. We can see some of the tradition of Chinese. There was a lot of Chinese food there as well. Although there were many people and the weather is so hot, we were still enjoying in visiting some of the famous place like Cheah Kong Si, Islamic museum and so on. I saw Lim Guan Eng!! He was going to leave after refreshment, he just walked beside me with a lot of bodyguards.
Here is the only one photo I took yesterday.
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