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Chuang Gong/床公 and his wife Chuang Mu/床母 are domestic deities who specialise in the protection of the home's children aged 12 and below. Their domain is the bed or beds where the children sleep. The couple have always been fairly obscure deities, mainly prayed to by rural and country folk, and only once a month - on the last night of the month, to be exact. But you can worship them if you are so inclined, particularly if you have young children whom would like them to watch over. All you need for this procedure is a 'huat kueh' brown sugar steamed cake, three sticks of incense, a cup of tea, a small bowl of vegetarian food (rice and vegetables will do), two red candles and three stacks of gold incense paper. On the night in question (8 p.m. and onwards), place the items on a large tray and put the tray on the child's bed. Light the candles and stick them into each side of the huat kueh; then light the incense sticks, kneel before the bed and make your prayer; you must specify the child's name, date and time of birth for this. Then stick the incense into the huat kueh, between the candles, and let the offerings stand for as long as it takes for the incense and candles to burn out. In the meanwhile, remove the gold paper from the tray and burn it outdoors. Once the incense and candles have burnt out, you're done - you may take everything away.
Yes, i do pray. 床母 helps to take care of our LO. Think of it like a guardian angel for them. The elders belief is that praying to her is thanking her for taking care of our LO and they also believe that by praying to 床母, she will put in additional effort to take care of LO and make it easier for us to take care of LO. Some elders will pray to 床母 if baby is cranky and hard to take care. I pray on the last day of each lunar month. For the prayer you must have 2 bowl of plain rice with 1 veg (cannot long bean and brinjal), place in the middle of the bed. Switch on the light and pray, switch off the light 5min later and clear the food away. Baby cannot be in the room when you are doing that and before 6pm. Once start this custom gotta pray till baby is 16. Cannot miss any date.
I just did mine.. You have to pray in either every month 2nd or 16th lunar. Prepare 1 rice 1 meat 1 veg and 1 egg.. Prepare money for them and 3 joss sticks.. Have to say where u stay.. Asking for thier help to protect and make your baby name guai guai sleeping easy baby to look after.. Wait for 1 or 2 min of burning the joss than can burn the paper. The prayer have to be done on your bed slightly tilted. Have to carry on till 15 yrs old. That the time they 出花园。 I pray once a month from between 9am to 12pm. Don't pray too long as believe chuang mu will pamper baby until laze on bed. Cannot use chop stuck as afraid chuang mu will use to cane them.
Great explanation. To add, for us we just light a joss stick on our bed and ask wang mu niang niang please protect our (LO name). Let him sleep good, thru the night.. Up to you what you want to offer (in terms of the vegetable). At the end of the offering toss 2 coins to see if it's 2 diff side - eg one head one tail means ok. If both same side wait awhile then toss again until it's different side.
Yes we did it in our family. It's basically a traditional Buddhist belief. Also if you are wondering if there is a set time to do this - nope. You can do it in the morning or afternoon or even evening. However stick to one time in the day so that you have a higher chance of completing it.
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I didn't pray chuan mu in understand that after praying still got things need to follow. What my grandma did was pray to ancestor at home. And took xia liu shower my baby. It works too.
Yes, I did that. Because my boy keep crying and my mum ask to pray. And it work after pray my boy no more crying. 宁可信其有 不可信其无， 就只是在家里拜拜，无伤大雅。
Dawn Lee