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海外覺與悟(四)Traditional lunar celebrations

詳細內容: 發佈於：2014-08-25, 週一 17:51

Throughout Chinese communities in Penang, Malaysia, whenever the seventh lunar month comes around, the streets are often lined with piles of joss paper ready to be burnt as offerings to ancestors and ghosts. Tzu Chi volunteer-in-training Ma Liuxin(馬柳馨) was the same, blindly following traditions. It wasn`t until Ma(馬) joined Tzu Chi that she understood the many traditions associated with the seventh lunar month were in fact superstitions.
馬來西亞檳城華人居多，農曆七月，幾乎在家家戶戶的門前都會看到燒紙錢的景象，還在慈濟見習的志工馬柳馨也是一樣，直到馬柳馨加入慈濟的行列後，打破了傳統農曆七月的看法，不再執著傳統習俗。