Bullockcartwater recounts a decades-old tradition – right in the heart of Singapore! At the Wang Hai Cheng Bio, to be exact where devotees exchange old flags and lanterns on the 14th night of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
A tradition that has gone back decades, each 14th night of the Chinese Lunar New Year, devotees flocked to the Wak Hai Cheng Beo (Yue Hai Qing Miao) to offer their prayers to Xuan Tian Shang Di and Mazu and to exchange their old flags and /or lanterns.
This is one night that time stood still, and one could see the scene as could have been a few decades ago. The only difference could be the surrounding. Looking for the moon might not be as easy. Tall buildings surrounded this dwarfed temple.
Read more about this special observance here.
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