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Bridge-Crossing Ritual at Chalong Sam Sian Tong Shrine
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Sun, 18 October · from 19:30
Chalong time (UTC+7)
Chalong Sam Sian Tong Shrine
Chalong
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Thailand · Phuket · Chalong
About the event
In the evening, a ritual bridge is set up at Chalong Sam Sian Tong Shrine: devotees cross it to leave their misfortune behind, and at the far end a medium stamps the red seal of the Nine Emperor Gods on the back of their shirts. By custom people come in white and bring a paper figure cut to their own outline; the time follows TAT's schedule and may shift.
From the editors
Chalong Sam Sian Tong, “the abode of the three virtuous immortals”, was founded in 1997 and enlarged in 2015 as more people came to keep the vows. The Phuket Vegetarian Festival (Jia Chai) is the nine-day Taoist festival of the Nine Emperor Gods: those who keep it dress in white, give up meat and hold vows of purification, while 39 shrines across the island hold their own rites. Crossing the bridge is believed to cleanse a person of impurities and of misfortune that might come their way; the red seal on the back shows they have been purified.