Greeting the Spring

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Kinkonkid shares a Lunar New Year tradition called - Welcoming the Spring.

This practice of welcoming the Spring -which changesfrom year to year - is marked with offerings and pasting over the front door. Kinkonkid writes:

On this day at the time stated in the Almanac- 通勝 – mum would made offerings to Heaven at the altar set up at the porch. On the altar would be a piece of red paper written with the phrase -迎春接福 . Another unique preparation for this offering was that in place of the usual porcelain censer for placing the joss sticks she would use a small basket filled with rice grain and wrapped with red paper.

At the end of the prayer session, she would request a male member of the family to paste the piece of paper over the front door of the house.

This practice is not widely known in Singapore, and probably only confined to the Hakka community - and even then it doesn’t seem to be very widespread anymore. You can read about this tradition in i came i saw i come i see.

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