The Year of the Rabbit｜Wong Tai Sin Temple resumes its first incense burner year 30 at 9:00 p.m.

Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple has not been open for believers to burn incense for the past two years due to the epidemic. It will be reopened on the 30th night of this year for believers to burn incense in person at Wong Tai Sin Temple.

This year, the Wong Tai Sin Temple will be open all night on the night of New Year’s Eve (January 21-22) until the first day of the Lunar New Year. It will be open at 9:00 p.m. for devotees to wait for the “burning incense” at midnight.

During the period from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the opening hours of Wong Tai Sin Temple will also be extended.

The Wong Tai Sin Temple will be open overnight until the first day of the Lunar New Year on the 30th night of the Chinese New Year (January 21-22, 2023), and will be opened at 9:00 p.m. for believers to come in and wait for the "burning incense" at midnight.

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The Wong Tai Sin Temple said that the Wong Tai Sin Temple will be open until 4:30 p.m. during the daytime on the 30th (21st) as usual, and will be open at 9:00 p.m. Open until 9pm on New Year's Day.

Due to the peak flow of people that night, the temple will implement one-way pilgrimage routes and crowd control measures. There will be no sign-seeking areas, kneeling areas, and offering areas. At the same time, believers are urged not to bring large incense sticks, ingot candles, raw oil, and offerings into the temple. temple.

The location of the "Touzhuxiang" public incense burner will be reserved to face the main hall, so that believers can pay homage to the statue of Master Wong Tai Sin and pray for blessings.

In terms of the route and arrangements for going to the "Tou Xiangxiang", believers will first line up at the temple square outside the Wong Tai Sin Temple and Wong Tai Sin Square that night.

You can enter from 9:00 p.m. on that night, and burn incense in the main hall, Sansheng hall and Yuxiang Pavilion in a one-way flow style.

Leave after burning incense, do not stay.

After entering the park, the "Touzao Incense Faithful" who are designated to offer incense at 11:00 or 12:00 will queue up at the waiting area of ​​the first platform (the platform of the main hall) to wait for the incense offering.

When the two waiting areas are full, the park will stop allowing believers to enter the first platform.

At the night of the Wong Tai Sin Temple, the first platform was designated as the "Shangtou Incense Wheel Waiting Area", and the third platform was designated as the "Incense Burning Area". There are three locations for offering incense in the temple, namely the Main Hall, Sansheng Hall and Yuxiang Pavilion.

For believers who cannot attend in person, they can also watch the live broadcast through Sik Sik Yuen's online platform TAO-NET.

The official Facebook and Instagram pages of Sik Sik Yuen will also live broadcast the grand occasion of burning incense on the temple at 12:00 in real time.

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