Penang Chinese usher in Hokkien New Year with grand offerings


Law (middle) showing her daughter Chew May Hwei, 11, (right) the proper way to fold joss paper into gold ingots at their home in Chew Jetty, Penang. With them is their neighbour, Chan Wooi Ni, 19.

THE Jade Emperor is revered as the emperor and supreme deity of heaven, the Chinese pantheon of gods.

In Chinese mythology, he was once a human prince who eventually inherited his father’s kingdom and made sure all his subjects knew peace and contentment.

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