新加坡后港斗母宫九皇爷诞今晚送神 九天斋期在重阳日收官
新加坡后港斗母宫的九皇爷诞庆典于 10 月 18 日（周日）晚迎来送神仪式，为期九天的斋期在重阳节正日收官。斗母宫位于 Upper Serangoon Road，是新加坡历史最久的斗母宫之一。
九皇爷诞在农历九月初一至初九举行，后港斗母宫今年自 10 月 9 日晚迎神起进入斋期，信众在九天内茹素、到庙上香，庙方连日设有诵经与戏台演出。今晚的送神是全节高潮，队伍恭送九皇爷圣驾离开，标志斋期结束。
九皇爷信仰随早年华人移民传入东南亚，在新加坡、马来西亚与泰国南部最为兴盛，各地斗母宫与南天宫在同日同步送神。今年九皇诞的最后一天恰逢重阳节，两个农历九月的节庆在同日交汇。
送神时段庙前路段人流集中，庙方历年均安排义工维持秩序，周边居民与信众可提前到场。
Singapore's Hougang Dou Mu Gong Sends Off the Nine Emperor Gods Tonight, Closing Nine Days of Festival
The Nine Emperor Gods festival at Hougang Dou Mu Gong in Singapore closes tonight, Sunday, October 18, with the god-sending ceremony, ending nine days of vegetarian observance on the Double Ninth Festival itself. The temple, on Upper Serangoon Road, is among the oldest Dou Mu temples in Singapore.
The festival runs from the first to the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. Hougang Dou Mu Gong welcomed the gods on the evening of October 9; devotees have kept a vegetarian fast and visited the temple for chanting and opera performances through the week. Tonight's farewell procession, in which the deities are escorted away, is the climax of the festival.
The Nine Emperor Gods faith arrived in Southeast Asia with early Chinese migrants and remains strongest in Singapore, Malaysia and southern Thailand, where temples hold their send-off ceremonies on the same night. This year the festival's final day coincides with Chongyang.
Crowds gather along the temple frontage for the send-off, and the temple deploys volunteers to manage the flow each year.
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图片来源：图：新加坡天福宫（资料照片）。图片来源：Basile Morin，Wikimedia Commons，CC BY-SA 4.0。Photo: Thian Hock Keng Temple in Singapore (file photo). Source: Basile Morin, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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