Symbolic start to festival


Team effort: Lim (right) and other volunteers pasting joss paper onto a bamboo pole at Tow Boe Keong Kew Ong Tai Tay Temple in Gat Lebuh Macallum, George Town.

GEORGE TOWN: For the past 120 years, volunteers at the Tow Boe Keong Kew Ong Tai Tay Temple would go into the jungle in search of giant bamboo for the Nine Emperor Gods Festival.

This year, they managed to find one in Bukit Gambier and the bamboo pole will be put up outside the temple for the nine-day festival which starts tomorrow.

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