CNY 9th day - Jade Emperor's Birthday

This year was the second year we 'Pai Ti Kong'. The first time, I blogged it here.  So, there was some improvement we made it this year.

April, May and myself started to fold these emperor hats in the November school holiday. Last year, we bought the ready made one only.

The street in front of my house had suddenly become so busy that evening. Everyone were gathered outside the house. In fact, it was more happening than 大年初一 (CNY day 1).  

April and May played some firecrackers. They were allowed to stay up late at night, as they had no school on the next day. If compare to the last year, we had more fruit and food on the altar table.

After making our wish for health, wisdom, wealth and happiness to Jade Emperor, we burned the gold praying papers which we had earlier stacked up high like a mountain.

My neighbourhood is majority Hokkein. They prayed in a very grand way and had a big feast on food like roasted meat and steamed crabs after the praying. Some even had grilling , barbecue and beer party till mid of the night. Though we are not Hokkein, we also joined in the crowd to have fun.