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Chinese American Death Rituals - Respecting the Ancestors (PH 16-17b)(Undated) (6 pages)

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Figu Dao Paul G. Chace e 2.1. Bok Kai Temple in 1900. Courtesy Wallace (Cowboy Wally) Hagaman. The st Bok Kai Temple was built on this site in. 1880 and was the entranceway to ee audiences calling down the gods and calling forth all ghost-spirits in order to Tene w the proper spiritual order of the entire universe. Briefly extracted, the avajlable English-language account of the second audience and its grand process ion underlines the importance of food offerings to attract and to appease ‘the leities and the ghost-spirits: The Boc ky [sic] Church, or Chinese Temple, recently erected on D and Front streets, in this city, was dedicated on Sunday with much pomp, noise, and en-_ b jusiasm. .. At an early hour on the moming of the 21st instant, a regular boment of the Yuba [River] commenced with bombs and firecrackers, and by ylight the Temple was in order for formal dedication. .. At 10 o’clock A.M. another procession formed on First street at the foot of C, and moved under the inspiring music of the “brass band” [sarcasm] to the Temple. The line was headed by a Chinaman with a string of burning firecrackers hanging eight or ten feet from the end of a pole. Following were roasted and decorated pigs, sheep ad ‘other toothsome looking edibles, which were set upon trays having four shoulder handles, and each was packed by four Celestials. This was designated the “offering train,” and one to be sacrificed upon the altar of the new Temple. Ten Priests, decorated in large black rgbes and cocked hats with ted crowns, a up this formidable procession.”! ie On Dying American 59 £ ? ‘ f , Figure 2.2. Bok Kai Temple main entrance. Photograph by Helen Martin in 1999. The temple has three main rooms: a community meeting room, the main temple, and a complex that includes a kitchen, housing, and recreational area. No other available historical accounts suggest that the important jiao rites occurred in other years in Marysville, although the Daoist priests from San Francisco also were present for some public rites in the 1870s and 1880s.” ANNUAL TEMPLE FESTIVAL RITES, “BOMB DAY” Marysville’s annual temple festival clearly is a traditional community-oriented celebration, with the rites focused on supplicating the Chinese deity, Bok Kai,.