Talk:Nine Emperor Gods Festival

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Why the people around the world must use the word "kow ong yah"(hokkien) and "kow wong yeh"(cantonese)??? That in chinese culture "yeh" or "yah is representing for the EMPEROR uncle or brother etc. So that to my opinion, instead of calling The Nine Emperor God ("Kew Ong yah"(hokkien)), we should call it "Kew Ong Tai Tay" or "Tai Tay Yeah" for hokkien.

(User:SohanDsouza: someone wrote the above into the article, whereas it belongs in discussion)

Everything under this heading really belongs at

Articles of Faith: Thailand’s Vegetarian Festival by Leslie Nevison is a far better account of what the Nine Emperor Gods Festival has to do with Thailand's

Phuket

Island.

If no one objects, in 9 days I'm going to cut Celebration in Thailand from this article and paste it to Vegetarian Festival as Celebration in Thailand of Nine Emperor Gods Festival. Pawyilee (talk) 05:07, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

the festival was boring05:27, 15 October 2008 (UTC)~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.223.184.33 (talk)

As just about everything in the article now is about the

The article now has a lot of information about the Chinese Nine Emperor Gods festival. Therefore the merge tag should be removed. LK (talk) 04:51, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

what is shared on this page,to me,is largely Canonical Taoism with special reference to specific stars on the constelation and the honorific titles.

Ask the devotees,many of them know not of such 'formal' information.Their knowledge is more on the localised worship rites. It should be noted that the rites may vary depending on the locality.

Take the Penang and Peninsular Malaysia southern states for a comparison. The worship articles are largely yellow in colour in Penang, the joss sticks, candles, and cakes to be offered. The southern states however, use white candles and even put special emphasis on dressing in white when worshipping in the Nine Emperor Gods temple. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sampuna (talk • contribs) 06:45, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• The Yellow perhaps, is emphasizing on the honourable origin of the gods as children of Tao Bu. White,on the oher hand, emphasizes on the death of the reincarnation of the gods as humans. One oral tale relates how they robbed from the rich to give to the poor. They were then caught by the emperor and sentenced to death. -sukhi hontu- (talk) 11:02, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]