This year’s Nine Emperor Gods Festival will be missing the parade and public ceremony to receive the deity at Kinta River.
ACTIVITIES for this year’s Nine Emperor Gods Festival will be kept to a minimum, with only simple prayers allowed to be conducted at the Tow Boo Keong Temple in Ipoh.
Temple committee secretary Too Joon Nam said there would be no public ceremonies to receive the “deities” at the Kinta River nor any parade that used to be the norm during the festival in past years.
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The tortoise bun stalls, set up in conjunction with Nine Emperor Gods Festival, have been scaled down due to the Covid-19 outbreak. (Inset) Customers are also required to register their visit on the MySejahtera app. — Photos: RONNIE CHIN/The Star
Too: We are minimising our activities to avoid crowding.
A filepic of Taoist devotees at Tow Boo Keong Temple in Ipoh last year. This year they will have to dispose of the joss sticks at a designated spot immediately after praying.
Tow Boo Keong Temple will not be allowing devotees to participate in the rituals of Nine Emperor Gods Festival such as walking over burning charcoal. --- Filepic
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