During the 9th day of the 9th Lunar calendar month, devotees around the region celebrate the Nine Emperor Gods Festival in popular folk culture or simply know as the Jiu Huang Xing Jun or Jun Huang Da Di they are actually the nine high ranking stars lords which preside the movement of the planets accordingly to Taoist teaching. At the eve of the nine lunar month temple of the deities hold a ceremony to welcome the Nine Emperors, it is the belief that the gods' arrival through the waterways procession is held from the temple to the seashore to symbolise this belief, devotees are dressed in white and must be on a vegetarian diet and carry incense and candles and await the arrival of the excellencies. Today marks the end of the nine-day and this time again the carnival-like procession to return the 9th Emperor Gods back to the waterway to send them back home.
