Kau Cim
Dublin Core
Title
Kau Cim
Kau Chim
Lottery poetry
求籤
Subject
Activities and Services
Description
Kau Cim is a common activity in the temple: You shake a bamboo container with many bamboo sticks that have a number at the end. Keep shaking until one of the bamboo sticks falls loose then bring it to the fortune-teller and tell him what kind of advice you are seeking.
Creator
unknown
Date
Jin Dynasty
Contributor
unknown
Rights
Buy a bulk of incense sticks and make prayer starting near the soothsayer area then slowly enter the main altar for each respective god with some incense stick. Don’t put all stick into 1 bucket.
Take a bamboo bucket full of number sticks and shake until 1 come out. If few sticks drop out then you will need to shake again until 1 drop out.
Get the fated stick number of the wish and exchange with an explanation piece of paper. Optionally you may drop by the soothsayer (next to the 12 zodiac animals) for further elaborate
Relation
Kau Cim; Temple; Taoist; Buddhism; Fortune-telling
Format
A long cylindrical bamboo cup or tube with a total of 100 sticks in the cup,
Type
Fortune-telling
Identifier
KauCim
Coverage
Jin Dynasty
Collection
Citation
unknown, “Kau Cim ,” CCCH9051 Group 20, accessed January 11, 2025, https://learning.hku.hk/ccch9051/group-20/items/show/43.
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