Talk:Nine Emperor Gods Festival

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Why the people around the world must use the word "kow ong yah"(hokkien) and "kow wong yeh"(cantonese)??? That in chinese culture "yeh" or "yah is representing for the EMPEROR uncle or brother etc. So that to my opinion, instead of calling The Nine Emperor God ("Kew Ong yah"(hokkien)), we should call it "Kew Ong Tai Tay" or "Tai Tay Yeah" for hokkien.

(User:SohanDsouza: someone wrote the above into the article, whereas it belongs in discussion)

Celebration in Thailand
Everything under this heading really belongs at Vegetarian Festival. I'm currently playing with that article in my sandbox, and for the nonce have copied the information there. Pawyilee (talk) 17:43, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Articles of Faith: Thailand’s Vegetarian Festival by Leslie Nevison is a far better account of what the Nine Emperor Gods Festival has to do with Thailand's Phuket Island.

If no one objects, in 9 days I'm going to cut Celebration in Thailand from this article and paste it to Vegetarian Festival as Celebration in Thailand of Nine Emperor Gods Festival. Pawyilee (talk) 05:07, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

the festival was boring05:27, 15 October 2008 (UTC)~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.223.184.33 (talk)

Merger
As just about everything in the article now is about the Vegetarian Festival, and we haven't found anyone competent to write a real Nine Emperor Gods Festival article, I say, yes, go ahead and merge 'em. But a Thai Chinese friend of mine in Yasothon says the Chinese Nine Emperor Gods Festival is not a vegetarian festival, the Chinese version of which is something else again. The Phuket affair seems to have been started by refugees from the breakup of the Heavenly Kingdom, which was based on a version of Christianity even stranger (and much worse in terms of lives lost) than that of the Mormons, with which it was a contemporary, and also a contemporary of the Bahai — perhaps there was a virus going around. The Phuket variety also includes playing with knives and sharp objects that smack of some Hindu cults I only dimly recall. Pawyilee (talk) 18:10, 14 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The article now has a lot of information about the Chinese Nine Emperor Gods festival. Therefore the merge tag should be removed. LK (talk) 04:51, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Who is the authority on the Nine Emperor Gods Festival? It's none other than the devotees themselves
what is shared on this page,to me,is largely Canonical Taoism with special reference to specific stars on the constelation and the honorific titles.

Ask the devotees,many of them know not of such 'formal' information.Their knowledge is more on the localised worship rites. It should be noted that the rites may vary depending on the locality.

Take the Penang and Peninsular Malaysia southern states for a comparison. The worship articles are largely yellow in colour in Penang, the joss sticks, candles, and cakes to be offered. The southern states however, use white candles and even put special emphasis on dressing in white when worshipping in the Nine Emperor Gods temple. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sampuna (talk • contribs) 06:45, 28 September 2011 (UTC)


 * The Yellow perhaps, is emphasizing on the honourable origin of the gods as children of Tao Bu. White,on the oher hand, emphasizes on the death of the reincarnation of the gods as humans. One oral tale relates how they robbed from the rich to give to the poor. They were then caught by the emperor and sentenced to death. -sukhi hontu- (talk) 11:02, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: Not moved. EdJohnston (talk) 03:19, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Nine Emperor Gods Festival → Vegetarian Festival (Phuket) – current name grammatically incorrect 182.250.246.37 (talk) 21:54, 14 May 2014 (UTC)


 * How does moving the article to an entirely different title address a grammar issue? And if it does, please provide evidence that "Vegetarian Festival" is the most common name.  Finally, the disambiguator "Phuket" is not needed for two reasons: 1)The article states that the festival is observed all over Thailand and beyond and, 2) Vegetarian Festival already directs to this article so no disambiguator is needed.  —  AjaxSmack   03:46, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The requester doesn't seem to be familiar with the move process. Apparently his/her contention is that the G in Gods should not be capitalised. (See comments at Talk:Vegetarian Festival (Phuket).) This is not relevant, however, since the whole name of the festival is capitalised due to its being a proper noun, regardless of what the capitalisation of the word god would normally be. --Paul_012 (talk) 04:17, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose as above. The festivals proper name is Nine Emperor Gods Festival so it doesn't need to be grammatically correct. Zarcadia (talk) 15:54, 15 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose 1) per 2) the disambiguator is unnatural and incorrect to boot, the article is about the festival throughout Asia 3) "vegetarian festival" is not a common name, but a description. walk  victor falktalk 00:39, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
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