A must-visit for year-end blessings | Quanzhou Guanyue Temple

| Quanzhou Guanyue Temple. 🎇 As the year draws to a close, be sure to visit Guanyue Temple in Quanzhou to pray for blessings 🙏! This place is really effective and is one of the most popular places in Quanzhou 💕. 📍 Address: No. 186-196, Tumen Street, Licheng District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province 🕙 Opening hours: 08:00-17:30 (last entry at 17:30) 🎫 Tickets: Free 🌟 History and culture: Quanzhou Guanyue Temple was built in the Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,000 years. It was originally called the Guandi Temple and was dedicated to Guan Yu. In the third year of the Republic of China, Yue Fei was added to the temple, and it was renamed Tonghuai Guanyue Temple. It is one of the six ancestral temples of the Guan Gong faith and is also the largest existing martial temple in Fujian Province. 💖 Blessing experience: • Prepare offerings: You can prepare five kinds of fruits, and remember to have pineapples, because in Minnan dialect, "pineapple" is a homonym for "prosperity," which has a great meaning; then bring incense, gold paper, and candles. • Order of worship: First worship Tiangong outside the door, then worship Guandi Ye; salute the two Ma Ye Gong on both sides of the door, first left and then right; enter the door to the patio and salute the Tudi Gong on the left; then go to the East Hall Chongxian Hall, first salute the middle and then the right; then go to the West Hall Sanyi Temple, first salute the middle and then the left and right; finally return to the incense table in the middle hall Wucheng Hall to salute, don't forget to add incense and burn gold paper. • Steps to draw lots: Before drawing lots, salute Guandi Ye, report your name, date of birth, address, and the matter of drawing lots, and then throw the divination blocks. One positive and one negative means that Guandi Ye agrees to draw lots. Shake the lot tube, and the one that falls out or protrudes is your lot. After drawing the lot, throw the divination blocks again to confirm. If both sides are the same, it is not, and you need to draw again. One positive and one negative is the correct one. Finally, take it to the lot interpretation place to interpret the lot. ⚠️ Notes: 1. Do not wear sunglasses and hats, do not wear slippers and short skirts, and do not take pictures of the statues. 2. Try to go to worship in the morning and do not make loud noises. 3. Do not blow out the incense with your mouth, hold the incense with your left hand, and use the palm of your right hand to fan it out. 4. Try not to stand in front of people kneeling and burning incense. 5. Do not take the bad lot home, put the lot back in place, and thank the gods. Not only can you pray for blessings and draw lots here, but the architecture is also beautiful, with exquisite wood carvings, stone carvings, and clay sculptures. At night, when the lights of Guanyue Temple are on, it looks a bit like Hongyadong in Chongqing from a distance, which is very beautiful.