Fortune Sticks Bucket
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Title
Fortune Sticks Bucket
Description
Most of today's Taoist temples, Buddhist temples and temples offer the stick buckets for people to ask for fortune and questions. In ancient times, there were divine poems for each stick, then copied by the believers for bringing it back to home. However, most of the temples today will get the sticks assigned for corresponding Lot numbers and order numbers. The poems printed on the thin paper sheets, so that the believers can extract corresponding poems and the relevant questions are answered among the sixty-four Gua(六十四卦).
Creator
Lu Do Shuen
Date
Tang Dynasty
Contributor
Lu Do Shuen
Rights
1. Before praying and drawing divination sticks, believers should kowtow God.
2. When shaking the buckets to draw the sticks, believers must tell the gods what aspects they want to ask.
3. Shake the buckets again if two or more divination sticks come out.
2. When shaking the buckets to draw the sticks, believers must tell the gods what aspects they want to ask.
3. Shake the buckets again if two or more divination sticks come out.
Relation
Ancient witchcrafts
Format
The sticks is about 40 to 50 cm long, 3 cm wide, and about 0.5 cm thick, usually made of bamboo or wood chips. There are a total of one hundred sticks and being divided into the following five types: three on the Superior spirit, twelve on the Superior Fortune, thirty on the Medium Spirit, and thirty-seven on the Medium Fortune, lastly eighteen are very inferior fortune.
Type
Divination Sticks
Identifier
ChimInTemple
Collection
Citation
Lu Do Shuen, “Fortune Sticks Bucket,” CCCH9051 Group 20, accessed January 11, 2025, https://learning.hku.hk/ccch9051/group-20/items/show/57.
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