The origin of Jiuhuangzhai Festival

Nine emperors prison was originally a festival for Chinese in Thailand. It is said that about 30,000 workers from China came to Phuket from China and Malaysia to engage in tin mining. One year, malaria spread in Kadu district in the south of the island, causing many deaths. The local elderly people in China invited a troupe from China to sing opera to drive away the disease. This method really worked, and the festival celebration ceremony began. People believe that people who take part in the celebration of the Nine Emperors' Day can get good luck and get rid of all their troubles, so people of all ages in Phuket celebrate this festival. Jiuhuangzhai Festival originated in China. There are three different theories about its origin. One is the legend that the Ming Dynasty perished 300 years ago, the Qing soldiers went to Beijing, and the patriots of the Ming Dynasty rebelled in succession. However, in order to avoid the arrest of the Qing court, uprising parties were often held in the name of religion. After the consolidation of the rule of the Qing Dynasty, the patriots of the Ming Dynasty were unable to gain a foothold in China and fled to various parts of Southeast Asia. They still get together through various worship activities abroad. In order to express their grief for the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, they put on white clothes and trousers every year on the Double Ninth Festival to worship the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty in the name of fasting and worshipping Buddha. Wearing white clothes was the "Dai Xiao" of the first emperors in the Ming Dynasty. During the ninth emperor's lent, people read the Sun Classic and Taiyin Yang. The sun is the "sun", the lunar is the "moon", and the sun and the moon together are "bright". The first sentence in Taiyin Classic is "the Pearl Buddha of the Sun and Moon", in which "Ming" refers to the Ming Dynasty, "Zhu" and "Zhu" are homonyms, and "Guangfo" is the transliteration of "Guangfu".

More than a hundred years ago, a Chinese national hero, in order to avoid the eyes and ears of the Qing court, once again called on the people to inherit the legacy of Hong Xiuquan and others in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the name of a deity and Buddha, and rose up against the Qing Dynasty and regained sight. At that time, there were nine emperors who were worshipped by ten gods. The first one was the goddess Doulao Yuan Jun, and the other gods were called the buddhas of the nine emperors. Yuan Jun is Zheng Chenggong's mother. Dissatisfied with her husband Zheng Zhilong's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, he taught his son Zheng Chenggong to fight against the Qing Dynasty in Honghuagang, Shaolin Temple, Fujian. The other nine gods are nine national heroes of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, including Hong Xiuquan and Shi Dakai. There is also a saying that in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, a group of righteous men who opposed the Qing Dynasty and regained their sight chose the opportunity to climb the mountain on the Double Ninth Festival to discuss ways to deal with the enemy in a mountain city in Fujian, but they couldn't come up with a good plan at the moment. At this time, the leader of the school, Prince Mingting Nine, believed that if this continued, the Qing soldiers would only be slaughtered in the city, which would not only endanger the lives of the righteous, but also harm the people in the city. He thinks there is no other way but to sacrifice himself and save the people of the whole city. He made up his mind to stand up and announce his plan of death and direct his plan to deal with the aftermath. Before the righteous could discuss it, the nine princes drew their swords and committed suicide. After everyone cried, they followed his plan. Immediately set up a funeral ceremony, set up a Buddhist association to recite scriptures and hold religious ceremonies. At the same time, the whole city was urged to fast and wear white clothes to attend the memorial ceremony, which kuya held for nine days. When the Qing soldiers searched the city, they were immediately interrogated. The unanimous answer of the Qing soldiers was that a temple presided over a religious ceremony for the dead. The Qing soldiers found no evidence of rebellion, so they retreated in order to avoid disturbing folk religious activities. Later, the people of Shancheng held the Nine Emperors Festival every year to commemorate the Nine Emperors. It is said that the Jiuhuangzhai Festival in Thailand was handed down from Fujian people.