- Making offerings to the Guardian Deities
Making offerings to the Guardian Deities.
- The ritual of “Emanating the Three Purities”
The ritual of “Emanating the Three Purities”.
- Ritual music is played by the Jiao masters
Ritual music is played by the Jiao masters (Left).
- The high priest and the scripture chanters
The high priest (middle, with red ritual robe) and the scripture chanters (on left and right).
- The Hong Kong Taoist Association’s inaugural Xiayuan Festival dharma service
The Hong Kong Taoist Association’s inaugural Xiayuan Festival dharma service (1981).
- Taoist scriptures
Taoist scriptures commonly used in Taoist temples in Hong Kong.
- Ritual Item: Buns for the Dead
During a salvation ritual, the ritual master turns the buns into food consumable for the ghosts according to Taoist ways. He then says the incantation while throwing the buns one by one before the altar as an offering of food for the hungry ghosts present at the ritual.
- Ritual Item: Rice Grains
During a salvation ritual, the ritual master cooks the rice on the spot in a Taoist alchemy stove. He then turns the cooked rice into food consumable for the ghosts present at the ritual according to Taoist ways.
- Ritual Vessel: Dangzi
Dangzi is a ritual percussion instrument, and used together with the woodblock muyu. It is sounded by hitting a small mallet against a bronze disc. In a salvation ritual, the Inspector of Fasts usually plays the dangzi in tandem with the Chief Cantor who plays the muyu to guide the tempo of scripture chanting. This exhibit is an early ritual vessel from Sanyuan Temple in Guangzhou, now kept in Fung Ying Seen Koon.
- Handheld Service Bell from Sanyuan Palace
The picture shows handheld service bell from Sanyuan Palace. This service bell is sounded by holding its handle and shaking it so that its tongue hits the side. In a litany ritual, the high priest rings the zhenling bell three times according to the Taoist ways, summoning the spirits of the dead to come forward to the altar to hear the chanting of scripture.