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Showing posts with label Taiwan. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Five of the creepiest places in Asia to spend your Halloween

Here are the five spookiest places in Asia to visit this Halloween that will put your local haunted house to shame. 

(Disclaimer: these are not for the faint of heart.)
 
1. Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Cambodia



2. Bhangarh Fort, India



3. Lipe Island, Thailand


4. Himuro Mansion, Japan

5. Liu Mansion of Minsyong, Taiwan






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Sunday, September 30, 2012

History of Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-autumn Festival dates back over 3,000 years, to moon worshipping in the Shang Dynasty. Ancient Chinese emperors worshiped the moon in the autumn, as they believed that the practice would bring them another harvest year. The word “mid-autumn” first appeared in the Zhou Dynasty. During that time, worshipping the moon on the 15th night of the eighth month had spread to high officials and rich families. The practice entailed placing a large table in the middle of the yard under the moon, and they put offerings such as fruits and snacks on the table. However, not until the early Tang Dynasty was the day officially celebrated as a traditional festival. It then became an established festival during the Song Dynasty, and has become as popular as the Spring Festival since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Appreciating the moon has been a custom since the Tang Dynasty (618–907). Not only the rich merchants and officials, but also the common citizens, liked appreciating the moon together at that time. The rich merchants and officials held big parties in their big courts. They drank and appreciated the bright moon. Music and dances were also indispensable. The common citizens just prayed to the moon for a good harvest. The tradition of eating mooncakes during the festival bgan in Yuan Dynasty. At the end of Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368, a dynasty ruled by the Mongols), the Han people’s army wanted to overthrow the rule of the Mongols, so they planed an uprising, but they had no way to inform every Han who wanted to join them of the time of the uprising without being discovered by the Mongols. One day, the military counselor of the Han people’s army, Liu Bowen, thought out a stratagem related to mooncakes. Liu Bowen asked his soldiers to spread the rumor that there would be a serious disease in winter and eating mooncakes was the only way to cure the disease, then he asked soldiers to write "uprising, at the night of Mid-Autumn Festival" on papers and put them into mooncakes then sell them to common Han people. When the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival came a huge uprising broke out. From then on, people eat mooncakes every Mid-Autumn Festival to commemorate the uprising. [Click here to read full article]
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Legend of Mid Autumn Festival

On the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese calendar every year, Mid-Autumn Festival (Zhong Qiu Jie) or what some called as Moon cake Festival or Lantern festival is being celebrated. On this very day, it will always be of a full moon without fail! The Moon on this very night will be always very big, bright and round. If you were looking at the moon, you will see some images.

What most people would see would be either a Maiden or a Rabbit! Very few people will see a toad! You should not see any other images than these 3 images. There is an explanation in fact to why it can only be one of those 3 images.

There are however several versions of this story and henceforth many arguments as a result. It has been said that each provinces of China has their own individual versions. The story that I know when I was a kid is as follows:

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Chinese Cupid God, Yue Lao


Yue Lao

The Chinese version of the cupid would be Yue Lao. Cupid to the western is a young chap who is some sort of angel that shoots love arrows. All he needs to do is to shoot his first arrow at one person followed by the second arrow at another person. The person whom had been shot by his arrow would be connected together and fall in love with each other. Yue Lao on the other hand is an old man living in the moon. He is a matchmaker as well as the god of marriages. All humans have a piece of red string. All he needs to do is to tie a knot with the red threads as one piece. Whosoever whose strings is being tied together would fall in love and come together eventually.
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Yue Lao 月老 ( God of Marriage) Birthday is on August 15 of the Lunar Calendar


There are many temples and shrines establish for the worship of Yue Lao. Yue Lao is seen as an elderly man holding the book of marriage 姻缘簿, in his left hand and a walking stick in his right hand. Sometimes, the red threads can be seen too along with clay dolls symbolizing the couple. His birthday is celebrated on the 15th day of the eight lunar month the same as the Mid Autumn Festival.
In these temples, there could be couples praying for a happy marriage, singles in search of love or parents eager for their children to be married.
In Taiwan, there is an often notice board where lovers or singles leave their wishes for Yue Lao.
Yue Lao is believed to be in charged of heterosexual relationships leading to the emergence of the Gay Rabbit God in charged of homosexual relationships. In Taiwan, there is a Gay Rabbit temple dedicated to this Rabbit God.
For the days of arranged marriage to today’s individual search for their special one, Yue Lao’s special help remains relevant and sought after.


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Monday, August 20, 2012

Chinese Ghost Month in Brief

The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival and holiday celebrated by Chinese in many countries. In the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh lunar month (14th in southern China).

In Chinese tradition, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month (鬼月), in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm. Distinct from both the Qingming Festival (in Spring) and Chung Yeung Festival (in Autumn) in which living descendants pay homage to their deceased ancestors, on Ghost Day, the deceased are believed to visit the living.

On the fifteenth day the realms of Heaven and Hell and the realm of the living are open and both Taoists and Buddhists would perform rituals to transmute and absolve the sufferings of the deceased. Intrinsic to the Ghost Month is ancestor worship, where traditionally the filial piety of descendants extends to their ancestors even after their deaths.

Activities during the month would include preparing ritualistic food offerings, burning incense, and burning joss paper, a papier-mâché form of material items such as clothes, gold and other fine goods for the visiting spirits of the ancestors. Elaborate meals (often vegetarian meals) would be served with empty seats for each of the deceased in the family treating the deceased as if they are still living.

Ancestor worship is what distinguishes Qingming Festival from Ghost Festival because the latter includes paying respects to all deceased, including the same and younger generations, while the former only includes older generations. Other festivities may include, buying and releasing miniature paper boats and lanterns on water, which signifies giving directions to the lost ghosts and spirits of the ancestors and other deities.

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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Oregon Chang of Asiaparanormal delivers Speech on Chinese Ghost in Red at Toastmasters Club

Click to view the speech made by Master Oregon Chang At ToastMasters on Aug 16 , the eve of the Chinese 7th month Hungry ghost festival.

The topic is on the Chinese Ghost in Red Articles are taken from :

Chinese Ghost in Red   [Click here to read Chinese Ghost in Red]
Chinese Ghost in Red Method [Click here to read Chinese Ghost in Red Method]
Real Cases of Ghost in Red , Taiwan [Click here to read Real Cases of Chinese Ghost in Red]
Bedok Reservoir Cursed with bad Feng Shui ?
 [Click here to read Bedok Reservoir Cursed with bad Feng Shui ?]
False Alarm of Ghost in Red in 2011 ( China Beijing Subway Train)
[Click here to read False Alarm of Ghost in Red ?]


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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Psychiatrists busy with Taiwan 'election syndrome'

TAIPEI - Taiwanese psychiatrists have been kept busy treating cases of so-called "election syndrome", with anxiety attacks and other disorders up 30 per cent in some hospitals, according to reports Sunday.

Politically over-zealous family members who started arguments with relatives or dragged their unwilling kin to election rallies ratcheted up the stress levels, the newspaper said.

And there were also more cases of sore throats, muscle strains and dodgy backs, which were put down to sustained screaming, and long bouts of standing and flag waving at campaign rallies.

Incumbent Ma Ying-jeou was cheered by huge crowds as he won a comfortable reelection victory, while many supporters of his main challenger Tsai Ing-wen were left in tears as she conceded defeat.

"The regrettable has happened. There is win and there is loss in an election, and we urge supporters not to be overly emotional," said former vice president Annette Lu, a heavyweight in Tsai's camp.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Real Case of Chinese Ghost in Red ( 紅衣女滔天恨意燒炭自殺並滴血)

by Oregon Chang

This article consists of some abstracts of a Real Life case of the legendary Chinese Ghost in Red.

A brief simplified summary of the abstracts in English will be provided.

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北縣一名再婚女子,疑丈夫外遇且要求離婚,她前晚因此走上絕路,在屋內以紅筆寫下充滿恨意的激烈字句,詛咒:「生|我看不到你們的報應,死|我作鬼也要找你們!」還滴血、針扎第三者照片,隨後穿著全身紅衣,吞下安眠藥燒炭自殺身亡,女子母親難過地泣訴:「女婿劈腿負心,害死我女兒!」

Basically, a woman who is suspicious of her husband having an affair outside, ends up in suicide. In the room she wrote words of curses in red. She swore of Revenge and used needle to poke at the photo of the woman who broke her family. This wife was all dressed in red and burnt charcoal by the side of her bed and died.

充滿恨意
警方調查,自殺身亡的女子原名簡淑芬(三十八歲),曾有過一段婚姻,與前夫育有一子,與小她五歲的現任丈夫姜樹庸(三十三歲)為姊弟戀,結婚約六年,婚後從夫姓改為姜淑芬,兩人在板橋市三民路一棟公寓四樓租屋居住,簡女沒有工作,其夫在軟體公司擔任電腦工程師。

The deceased, 簡淑芬(三十八歲) had a son with the ex husband, 姜樹庸(三十三歲) who is 5 years younger than her. After marriage, the name was changed to 姜淑芬. The Wife was jobless and the husband was a computer engineer.

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「賤女人狗男女」
姜樹庸向警方供稱,前天上午八時許他出門時,還看到妻子在床上睡覺,未料晚上八時多返家時,卻發覺屋內一片漆黑,打開臥室房門時,驚覺房門似乎被堵住,用力推開後驚見妻子全身紅衣、穿著鮮紅色褲襪,躺在臥室床上燒炭身亡,一旁還散落疑似安眠藥的空盒,連忙報警處理。

警方到場調查,發現簡女疑服下逾百顆安眠藥物,床旁有兩盆炭火餘燼,死意甚堅,她在客廳牆壁用紅筆寫「我做錯了什麼?你要逼我去死!你怎麼忍心?」臥室牆壁也有寫著「賤女人、狗男女」等字句,還詛咒:「生—我看不到你們的報應,死—我作鬼也要找你們。」等充滿恨意的詛咒,梳妝鏡上更有著觸目驚心的「我恨你」三個紅色大字。

A photo with the needle pierce at a woman whom the wife believe to be the bitch who caused her family to be broken was found. The deceased wife was found dead on the bed with burning charcoal by the side and she was all dress in red. She took sleeping pills before she went to bed.

On the wall, she mentioned : " what have I done wrong? why must you force me to my death? " She had also wrote a curse on the wall saying : " When alive I cannot see the retribution of you both, after I die will find you both for revenge! I Hate You!"

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A Commentary from the Team of Asiaparanormal :
The source is very brief. We are not clear of the real situation as we are not them. There might be things unmentioned that we may not be aware of. Please kindly do not jump to any conclusions on this article or take sides.

Life is too precious! Please take life seriously and live life to the fullest. Please don't do anything to harm yourself and people around you.

Whatever worst case that may happen to you, it is never the end of the world for you. Treasure life, cherish your own life and others.

Seek help when you are depressed.
Call some hotline if you need to
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Taiwanese woman finds out she has testicles

(THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Sin Chew Daily reported that a Taiwanese woman was shocked when a gynaecologist told her that she had testicles.

The woman, 34, decided to consult a specialist after experiencing pain in her genital area.

It was her first time seeking treatment from a gynaecologist although she had never experienced menstruation in her life.

The check-up also showed that the woman did not have a uterus. When asked why she had not sought treatment or medical advice about her menstrual problem, the woman was lost for an answer.

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Sunday, October 2, 2011

'Ghost' watches shooting of drama


Picture is (C) copyright to CTV / STV

Taiwanese idol drama Love Recipe began airing in Taiwan on Sept 4 and a set of photographs was released by the production team to promote the drama.

Strangely, one of the pictures show lead actor Kenji Wu leaning against a van with a face resembling that of a woman appearing near his right armpit.

The crew insisted that the van was empty at the time of the photograph was taken.

Taiwan's Next Magazine, meanwhile, reported that Kenji had fallen sick after shooting the scene with him kissing actress Ivlyn Li in the van.

The actor-singer was on a three-day medical leave, it reported.

Kenji later said he felt "someone" patting him on the back when he was in the vehicle.

"When I turned around, there was no one," he said, adding he also heard a voice saying 'No' next to him.

"After that, I felt dizzy and very cold," he said.

Kenji's manager said the incident could be a good sign that the drama was so interesting that even the spirits wanted to watch it.

The manager added he would bring the star to perform some prayers "to call back his frightened soul".

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Friday, September 30, 2011

Traditional Chinese Healer Exorcised my Girlfriend


My girlfriend Christine and I were walking down the street in Tainan, Taiwan, when a Taiwanese man shouted at us from the liquor store next door. "Lai, Lai (come here, come here)." He implored. We went inside. "A ghost is following your girlfriend."

He said. "How do you know?" "I saw it." He pointed at her foot, which was wrapped in thick white bandages. "An accident?" A week earlier Christine had been riding her scooter when she was cut off and forced into the scooter next to her. Her little toe, which had been hanging off the edge of the scooter, had gotten caught on the other scooter so that when they veered away from each other it was pulled partly away from her foot. Doctors had fixed it in place with metal pins. It was extremely swollen.

Through all his hand waving, the man didn't touch Christine until the end when he placed one hand behind her head and then, with the same form that you would expect to see a martial artist punch through a board, he thrust is open palm forcefully into her forehead and held it there, hand quivering, and shouted, "Ooha!" He repeated this action three times and announced that he was finished.

He told me that he had adjusted her chi, which had been blocked. He said the treatment would help her foot over the short term, but that she would have to return two more times before the end of Ghost Month (the month when the fabric separating our world from the ghosts' is most permeable) in order to rid herself of the troublesome spirit.

We thanked the man for his kind help and left. On the scooter we laughed about the performance. I waved my hands in the air.


A couple of hours later as we watched TV at home Christine suddenly grabbed my arm. "Oh my God Matt. Look!" She had just unwrapped her foot. When we went out that night it had been so swollen that it looked like a big pink potato with toes. But now it was back to its normal size. The swelling had gone down so fast that her skin was wrinkled like she had just gotten out of a long bath. Here is a picture that I snapped with my iPhone




























Picture is (C) copyright to Matt Gibson.

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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

New Dogfish Species Found in Taiwanese Fish Market

The Order Squaliformes, home to the dogfish sharks, is one of the most diverse groups of sharks currently swimming the oceans, second only to the Carcharhiniformes in sheer number of species. Within that order is the Family Squalidae, made up of the very familiar spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias (the star of this blog) and a bunch of species that look pretty similar to it.

New species tend to pop up in this group, since most of these sharks look pretty similar and the majority of them live in the deep sea. Recently one species was “rediscovered” in plain sight; the North Pacific spiny dogfish Squalus suckleyi had been considered a population of S. acanthias but has been restored to species status by genetic analysis. Now, researchers have found an entirely new Squalus species in the Tashi Fish Market in Taiwan. Say hello to Squalus formosus.

White and Iglesias (2011) gave Squalus formosus it’s pretty cool-sounding scientific name after the geographic location where, so far, all the specimens have been found. “Formosa” is the Portuguese name originally given to Taiwan. This species shares its range with at least four other similar-looking dogfish, including wide-ranging species such as the shortnose spurdog Squalus megalops, shortspine spurdog Squalus mitsukurri, Japanese spurdog Squalus japonicus, and longnose spurdog Squalus blainville.

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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Thought to be possessed by ghost, man gets more earthly diagnosis

Taipei, Aug. 22 (CNA) A 65-year-old man in Tainan who shouted, yelled, punched and kicked his way to sleep every night scared his family to the point it thought he was possessed by a ghost.

But after repeated consultations with gods at local temples were unable to cure the man, his family decided to bring him to Tainan Municipal Hospital to see if the affliction might have a more earthly explanation.

Tsai Tsung-ju, a physician in the hospital's Department of Internal Neurology, said Monday that the man actually had Parkinson's disease and that his symptoms were not unusual.

The doctor said the man's relatives thought he was simply having nightmares when he shouted, yelled and kicked in his sleep, but as time passed, his movements grew more violent, and he eventually ended up punching and kicking his wife in the middle of the night.

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Thursday, August 11, 2011

UFO's Over Taiwan 16th July 2011



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Friday, May 20, 2011

Rare tornado hits Xindian in New Taipei

TAIWAN - Many people in downtown Xindian in New Taipei City could not believe their eyes when they witnessed a tornado, an extremely rare phenomenon on the island.

The 20-floor high tornado lasted about two minutes and hurled objects in its path into the air in downtown Xindian, including some trees. A van was lifted from the ground and smashed a motorcycle when it fell. No casualties were reported.

"It's the first time in my life that I saw a tornado," said a local witness, who was woken up by the swirling storm.

The whole process of the tornado's formation and disappearance was recorded by a local resident, who posted the video on YouTube.

According the Central Weather Bureau (CWB), the storm will not be included in the official record of natural disasters as it was not recorded by the bureau's weather station.

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Taiwan man sues neighbours over rude bird

A man from Taiwan is suing his neighbours over their rude pet bird, complaining the pet's cursing inflicted emotional stress and injuries.

Electrician Wang Han-chin claims that five neighbours taught their pet bird to insult him after he complained to the police that they were too loud.

Wang, from central Taiwan, claims the mynah bird would call him a ‘clueless big-mouthed idiot’ whenever he left the house.

While most would brush off the insults of a small feathery creature, it would appear Wang took the comments to heart.

He alleges the bird’s harsh words caused him serious distress, and claims he suffered burn injuries after the bird made him lose concentration at work.

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Monday, November 1, 2010

What is a Chinese Vampire All About ? 华人殭屍是什麼一回事?



What is a Chinese Vampire all about? Well, the impression that most of us have is those from the movies and we would often thought that only during the Qing dynasty which was the last dynasty of china that has vampires.

In actual fact, those you see from the movies are Manchurian Vampires to be more exact.

Chinese Vampires is all about that skipping, hopping , jumping or leaping around.

There are many grades of them. The rather lower grade ones, ya , they are the jumping ones something somewhat similar to what you see in the movies. However, the higher grades ones do not.

所谓吸血僵尸是什么?
我们大家都熟习的中华式吸血僵尸,恐怕只限于清朝。
其清朝为中国最后朝代,而电影中所见的吸血僵尸,只限于清朝而已。
有人视为满洲式僵尸。

中华式吸血僵尸, 所谓行走方式为一步一步往前跳。

吸血僵尸分阶级。低级的如电影中一步一步跳。高级才非也。



The Higher grades ones have the ability of transformations in animals etc.. and some even have the ability of elemental summoning or other forms of summoning !

The only way to really have a Chinese Vampire destroyed is by the means of cremation. They are really destroyed once they have been turned into ashes.

As long as they are not turned into ashes, they are never destroyed in the first place. If you want to destroy a Chinese, Do really destroy it and do not allow it a chance to escape and recover.

The reason would that once it fully recovers from the wounds and injuries you have inflected on it, it will be become more and more powerful that before. Defeating and destroying it simply just gets harder and harder each time by then.

The Common point of Vampires of Asia regardless which race or nationality it is from, as long as they are Asians they share a common point which is that they cannot cross water!

I am talking about rivers, lakes , oceans etc.. when i am say that they cannot cross waters. The only way is unless they are being transported across the waters by other means such as boat etc... But if it just crossing of the waters by themselves on their own, they are not able to do so.

高级吸血僵尸, 具有变身成动物等等, 或者操作火水风雷。

毁灭吸血僵尸的唯一方法,只限于焚化烧尸。 化成灰为灭。

不化成灰, 非灭。要毁灭中华式吸血僵尸就要彻底。

如果被打伤而有机恢复痊愈,就成不如前之强化敌军,随着败北次数愈难攻愈不落。

亚洲吸血鬼共同点乃: 无法渡水。

所谓水为川,湖,海。渡水体唯一方式为搭船。否则,渡海不可。

Things that can be used on a Chinese Vampire when exorcising it or protecting yourself would be as follows :
1) Garlic 大蒜
2) Glutinous rice 糯米 (they must not be cooked !)
3) Salt 鹽

The rest not mentioned, leave it to the exorcist master !
The above mentioned 3 are already fundamental and basic enough.

For your information, the Western or the Caucasian way of Vampire exorcism such as Holy water, the Cross, Bible or by the means of piercing the heart of the vampire cannot defeat or exorcist a Chinese Vampire. It is defiantly not applicable and has no effects on the Chinese Vampire.

There are many ways how a Vampire can come into existence. The below would just some out of the many.

1) Victims of Premature burial
2) Improper Death
3) Suicide 自殺
4) Desires to cause trouble to the living after death
5) Coffin exposed to Moonlight
6) Improper Burial Procedures
7) Died of a Violet Death
8) An angry and restless deceased when alive
9) or angry and restless dead on the living for postponing burial
10) A Black Cat that jump over the coffin 黑貓跳過棺材

To simplify how come a person can become into a vampire, it defiantly has something to do with the soul or spirit having troubles living the body when it really had should ! Hence, it became into a vampire, half dead half alive ! A dead not able to be really dead and the living that is not able to be alive.

It is only by the means of cremation that it can in peace finally once it has been turned into ashes. You can keep the ashes if you want to, but keep it properly this time and be very careful of it.

In any event that this ash is stolen, people who knows witchcraft and black magic can have this Vampire brought back to life again from the ashes. However if the ashes is being blown away by the wind and already scattered then this possibility is zero in the first place.

打退僵尸护身法,只唯有以下三点。

1) 大蒜
2) 糯米 (勿煮)
3) 盐

其他方式,由除魔高手处理。
以上三点为基。

西洋吸血鬼打退护身法例如:圣水,十字架,圣书,刺穿心脏,都无法打退中华僵尸 (下文省略成‘’中僵‘)。

中僵产生理由可多:例子如下

1) 过早埋葬
2)死法非自然
3)自杀
4)死后欲复生而在人间捣乱
5)棺材嗮月光
6) 不适合埋葬手续
7)暴力性死亡
8)死者生时持有执着
9)因埋葬日延期,走不下黄泉路
10)黑猫跳过棺材

人成中僵,有关人死后就魂无法脱尸。
结果,成为了半生半死的中僵。

只有焚化烧尸才能够让亡魂安息。
诺欲保管骨灰,要严管,要万分注意。

如果骨灰被夺走,黑魔术及亚述高手能够利用骨灰,让僵尸死而复生。

但如果骨灰被风吹散,死而复生可能性一切归零。
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

观世音菩萨在台湾显灵 ! (Goddess of Mercy /Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva appears in the skies of Taiwan)

Among the Clouds , in the skies of Taiwan in the year of 1987 October 15th , the image of the goddess of Mercy /Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva was spotted ! The locals had believed it to be Manifestation of the Goddess of Mercy /Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva



在1987年10月15日的台灣, 天空中有云行成的觀世音菩薩被發現!当地的人都认为是觀音菩薩显灵了 !
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

The Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival

It began in the Age of Fragmentation as the Ullambana (Yulanpeng) feast on the 15th day (full moon) of the 7th lunar month, held to commemorate the Buddhist legend of Moggallana (Mulian), who descended to hell to save his deceased mother's soul. The feast was held to give food to pretas, or Hungry Ghosts - spirits who had been reborn in hell because of their misdeeds and suffered from thirst and hunger there. This corresponded with pre-Buddhist Chinese views of the afterlife, in which offerings could be made to the dead in the Underworld in the form of food or other items. But the tradition developed that during the 7th month, the spirits in the Underworld would actually be released into the mortal world to feed on food offerings. Hence the popular view of the Festival came to be that these spirits must be appeased with offerings of incense, food and burned 'hell money', otherwise they might disturb the living.

Beijing is the worse place to be an example on how traditions are kept due to its political role. My college classmates know nothing about real old Chinese traditions, except Beijing opera (I attended college in Beijing). Once a friend who studied folklore asked me about rabbit's role in Chinese tradition and I asked her whether she knew about rabbit king folklore in Fujian province, she knew nothing. Here you go, how some Bejing or Shanghai big urbanites are

Also, at 15th day of the 7th month, the gate to the ghost world is open, and ghosts would be allowed to come back to the world of human to visit their family members. This is a Chinese legend with some Buddhist and Daoist influence. Therefore, most Chinese families would offer food for their ancestors who come back for a visit. I think the ghost gate is closed at the end of the month, and all ghosts must go back to the underworld. Therefore, to be safe, the 7th month is not lucky to do anything, such as marry. People who are born in the 7th month is considered the escaping ghost of the underworld, and sometimes the mothers (or fathers also) would be worried that the kings of the underworld would send someone to take these children back, especially the ones who are born between the 15th day and the 30th day. My father was born at the 19th day of the 7th month, and I remember hearing him mentioning of this fact. He was quite a sturdy boy any way, but he did fall and broke his head in the river while herding cows when he was either 3 or 4 years old (and right before the age, about 7, where the underworld has a greater claim on the children).

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