 This two little piece is called a jiao wei. It's tools that in Taoism, they're invented to communicate with their gods. So how it works is that you hold these two pieces in the hand, think of a prayer, and you throw it on the table. If both are facing up, it's called a jiao wei. And it means that the god kind of like didn't answer your questions, but it's sort of like positive thing, yeah? You can throw it again. If both are facing down, it's called mu bei. The god kind of say no to what you're praying for. And the best case scenario is called sheng bei, which means one is facing up, and the other facing down. And people want to have this sheng bei result. And people have used this to determine a lot of results throughout this year, where they cannot be solved. They will just come to this as the final way to determine correct or wrong. Not just that, people have come up with other ways to communicate with gods. So take a look at this. This is called a jitong. It's someone who has the ability to summon the gods to live inside their body for a certain amount of time, where during this time, people can talk to the gods via them. They often perform this ritual called keltong. It's a way to invite a god to come to their body, and it often involves some piercing of using metal rods and walking on glass, or like sitting on chairs that build with nails, and people believe that this act of torture, like push or body limit, will able to invite the gods and spirits and come to live in your body. So this is called the jianjiao. This thing held in this temple called the shian shi shiyan miao. So shian shi being one person, and shiyan being another person. So this temple is established to memorize these two persons, and who are them? This place is Kuala Kubu Baku. It's a small town north of Kuala Lumpur, about two hours drive. It's my hometown, and this is a festival I grew up watching, and I wanted to share this with you. I filmed the festivals and also interviewed some persons, so to answer my questions, why do people do all this, and are all this real? You can understand it, and you know it's real. This is another kind of jianjiao. This is the jianjiao, which is to make a living from the gods. You have to do something, you have to do something with it. You have to keep doing it with your heart. Sometimes he will punish you, and he will also bring you in, and teach you to do something with it. So, when you go to the north, and you keep contacting the north, you will be the leader, and I will call the north. Contact the north, and it will be a wonderful thing. Today, this is our Yuesan Shenshi Shiyue Temple's jianjiao, Qingdeng. It's also the birthplace of Shiyue Temple. Once a year, when I was in class, it was a three-day work, and today is the first day. Every three years, we have a trip. Tomorrow morning, from 6.30 in the morning, to 7.30 in the afternoon, we are walking about 10 kilometers. The time is usually more than 5 hours. I have been in this temple for about 10 years. Have you ever seen it? Yes, I have seen it. I have seen it in my master's school. How many students have you seen in your school? 49 students. Do you have 70 students? Yes. How many students have you seen? About 3 students. How many students have you seen? About 7 students. Many people think of Shenshi Shiyue Temple. It doesn't seem to be Shenshi Shiyue Temple. But according to my knowledge, there are two Shenshi Shiyue Temple. We usually say one is Shenshi Shiyue Temple, one is Shenshi Shiyue Temple. So there are a few versions of these stories, like how the temples were established and who are these persons. So I'm just going through three versions, three of the more famous versions. There are more, but today we're only going to focus on these three. So the first version of the story about the origin of this temple, the Shenshi Shiyue, the first person, Shenshi Shiyue is referred to this real historic figure called Captain Sheng Mingli. So Captain is like the official rank back then when the Dutch colonized Malaysia. Basically tell one Chinese leader they say, hey, look after your gang in this area and I will point you as a captain. Throughout the whole Tanah Malayu here, we have a lot of different regions and each region has their own captain. And this person particularly we're talking about today, Captain Sheng Mingli was the captain of back then, Sun Ngai Wu Zhong, now Serenban District. So this Captain Sheng Mingli was the mentor of Captain Yap A Loy, which is the claim most famous captain in the region because he was responsible in the establishment of the Kuala Lumpur. What happened after that was Captain Sheng Mingli was murdered in a war. Rumor says that his head got chopped off and the blood was white. And later on Captain Yap A Loy in his name built this temple to worship Captain Sheng Mingli. So that was the other person, right? Cian Shi Ye and Si Shi Ye. So Captain Sheng were kind of like the Cian Shi Ye and the Si Shi Ye is someone else. So in this version of the story, this someone else is one of the commander-in-chief under Captain Yap A Loy, someone who really good at fighting in war, won a lot of warfare and his name was Zhong Bing Lai. He was one of the best men under Captain Yap A Loy and later on he died in the Slango Civil War. And to remember him, he kind of put his sculpture also in the same temple that worshiping Captain Sheng Mingli and therefore born Cian Shi Shi Ye Miao. And this is one version of the story, more famous one. But it doesn't explain one of the weird thing in the name of the temple which is Si Shi Ye. So Cian Shi Ye, we understand someone who become a god from a human after he died. But how about Si Shi Ye? So in Si Shi Ye, Si means the number four. So is that the fourth Si Ye or something else? So in this second version of the story, Cian Shi Ye was Captain Sheng but Si Shi Ye was someone else. Not Zhong Bing Lai, but someone called Yap A Shi. The Si is number four. So back then in the Chinese society, people like to name them themselves with numbers and because back then education was a luxury. We have very limited knowledge on writing so usually people just call you are three, you are four. That is one of the very common naming system back then in the old Chinese society. So this person called Yap A Shi was rumours say that he was one of the richest man in town and also someone very respected by Captain Yap A Loy and he also later died and then Captain Yap A Loy kind of also include him in the temple that worshipping Captain Sheng and therefore we have Si Shi Ye and Si Shi Ye and the number four here, Si Shi Ye was referring to this person called Yap A Shi. Therefore it's taking the number four and putting in the names of the temple is not the fourth Si Ye. So this is the second version of the story which it makes more sense but which version is the true? Nobody really knows. They just have different evidence that back itch of the stories and recently we have the third version of the story. Captain Sheng Ming Li was not the Xian Shi Ye. He's actually the Si Shi Ye and then Xian Shi Ye was referring to the famous Taoism God called Huang Da Xian. This was also backed by some evidence found recently but it's not enough to prove a complete truth. So just take this with a grain of salt but it's interesting to learn all this that this was happened in 100 about 180 years ago and this person, Xian Shi Ye and Si Shi Ye was a real human that exists here in Tana Malayu back then before the Slamo Civil War. And after they died, every year they would have ceremony and festivals and every three years of that they would actually held a parade. During the parade, it's not just the Ji Tong would play as the Xian Shi Ye but often they would have more characters like they would have Ji Tong who got possessed by other God's characters like Guan Ying, the Monkey Gods or Nerja or different kinds of mythical characters in Taoism. Start from six in the morning they have this long parade that will go around the town for 10 kilometers or so, for five to six hours and it will take the parade to arrive so it's not very dangerous and it looks more real because it's not much different since they didn't have to wear a mask or a winter tie and then the soldiers had to wear a mask or a helmet and they could just walk around five to six hours and their answers people, they will give blessing to people. It's a thing to see like every three years the local gatherers just to celebrate this. I wanted to find out whether all these are real or not but I think at the end of the day I realized that it doesn't really matter. I think all these religion, ceremony, practices, rituals has a very good reason to exist is that when human like us and we face impossible challenges, when we grieve, when we face a problem that is impossible to solve and whether we turn to, we often turn to this higher being, higher power. It's real or not, doesn't really matter. What matter is that we want to believe in it and by believing in it, by performing a certain ritual, it makes us feel better. It makes us hope again and I think this is the most important reason for all these things to continue to exist and continues to thrive in the future generations. This is a culture that we have to preserve and for me I think it's really beautiful to look at. Making this video it's always on my list. 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