Chinese New Year
More Taoism events are held during the Chinese New Year festival. To worship the god, Taoist will prepare fruit, flower, wine, tea, rice, cake, animal sacrifices, candles and heaven/hell paper money to thank god's gracious protection. Back to thousand years ago, they prepared sacrifices using cow, pig and goat. People chose these animals as their escape goat to get rid of people's sin. Base on reincarnation of religion, four-leg animals have more sin than human. Their heads hardly move up to watch the sky, because animals are shame to face the heaven.Today's Chinese prepare the sacrifices using pork, chicken, duck, goose, fish, egg, pig liver, etc. Cow was removed, because cow helps farmers working on the farmer land. For big events, people have to prepare five different sacrifices. The common Five-Sacrifices are pork, chicken, duck, fish and pig liver ( or egg). For the small events or for low rank gods, people prepare only three kind of sacrifices. The three common sacrifices are pork , chicken , and fish. The sacrifices contain one four-leg animal, one two-leg animal and a fish.
Clothes
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Taoist robes were mostly made from silk . Also the women and little girls had to put their hair in a yin yang bun .
Food/Diet
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Taoist do not eat artificial food . Processed food that contain white flour , sugar , red meat , and citrus fruits the try their best to avoid . Even dairy products . Their diet basically consists of locally grown produce . for example whole grains , vegetables , seeds/nuts , tofu/soy , herbs , soups and stews .