Chinatown is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China,most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world,including Europe,Asia,Africa,Oceania,and the Americas.
Chinatown is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles,California,that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938. The area includes restaurants,shops,and art galleries,but also has a residential neighborhood with a low-income,aging population of about 7,800 residents.
The Thean Hou Temple is a six-tiered temple of the Chinese sea goddess Mazu located in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. It is located on 1.67 acres (6,758 m2) of land atop Robson Heights on Lorong Bellamy,overlooking Jalan Syed Putra. It was completed in 1987 and officially opened in 1989. The temple was built by Hainanese living in Malaysia and the property belongs to and is run by the Selangor and Federal Territory Hainan Association. It is one of the largest temples in Southeast Asia.
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The Goddess of Mercy Temple,also known as Kuan Im Teng or Kong Hock Keong,is a Mahayana Buddhist temple within George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang. Located at Pitt Street,it was built in 1728,making it the oldest Buddhist temple in the state.
Chinese temple architecture refer to a type of structures used as place of worship of Chinese Buddhism,Taoism,Confucianism,or Chinese folk religion,where people revere ethnic Chinese gods and ancestors. They can be classified as:
Chinese New Year,or the Spring Festival,is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring,observances traditionally take place from Chinese New Year's Eve,the evening preceding the first day of the year,to the Lantern Festival,held on the 15th day of the year. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February.
Quan Am Temple is a Chinese-style Buddhist temple located on Lao Tu Street in Cho Lon,District 5,Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam. Founded in the 19th century,it is dedicated to Guanyin,the Chinese goddess of mercy and the Chinese form of the Indian bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. The pagoda is popular among both Vietnamese and Chinese Buddhists;most of its inscriptions are in Chinese characters,but some have had Vietnamese labels added. In addition to veneration of Guanyin and the teachings of the Buddha,the pagoda also includes Pure Land worship of the Amitabha Buddha,elements of Taoism,and the folk worship of the Fujianese sea goddess Mazu in her role as the "Queen of Heaven".
The Thien Hau Temple,officially the Tue Thanh Guildhall,is a Chinese-style temple of the Chinese Goddess of Sea,Mazu on Nguyễn Trãi Street in the Cholon ("Chinatown") of District 5 in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam.
BàChúa Xứ or Chúa XứThánh Mẫu is a prosperity goddess worshiped in the Mekong Delta region as part of Vietnamese folk religions. She is a tutelary of business,health,and a protector of the Vietnamese border. She is considered prestigious and is worshipped in her temple in Vĩnh Tếvillage at the foot of Sam Mountain,An Giang province. A three-day festival is held in the village at the beginning of the rainy season,beginning on the twenty-third day of the fourth lunar month,in her honour. BàChúa Xứreached her peak of popularity in the 1990s and still endears pilgrims and followers in and outside Vietnam with her responsiveness to fervent,devout and sincere prayers.
Thiên Y A Na is a Vietnamese goddess. She is worshipped in the Vietnamese folk religion and Đạo Mẫu,the mother goddess beliefs. She is also known as Lady Po Nagar,the Cham deity from whom she originated. The Cham people of Vietnam had been much influenced by India,and it is believed that PôNagar is represented with the characteristics of Bhagavati Uma. The cult of Thiên Y A Na is popular in Vietnam,particularly among women. She is channeled through Lên đồng rituals. There have been many temples and shrines devoted to her throughout the last several centuries.
Đạo Mẫu is the worship of mother goddesses which was established in Vietnam in the 16th century. This worship is a branch of Vietnamese folk religion but is more shamanic in nature. Đạo is a Sino-Vietnamese word for "religion," similar to the Chinese term dao meaning "path," while Mẫu means "mother" and is loaned from Middle Chinese /məuX/.
Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park is a state park located in the center of the town of Weaverville,California. The site is a Taoist temple which is still in use,and is the oldest Chinese temple in California.
Chinese temples are associations (會館) and sites of worship of Chinese folk religion and Chinese Buddhism for the Chinese community in Kolkata. Kolkata has a significant population of Indian nationals of Chinese ethnic origin. Unofficial estimates puts the population of Indian nationals of Chinese-origin in Kolkata anywhere from 5,000 to 200,000,most of whom live in or near Tangra. The Chinese brought with them their culture. At least eight of the Chinese temples are located in the old Chinatown around Tiretta Bazar in Central Kolkata.
Vietnamese folk religion is a group of spiritual beliefs and practices adhered by the Vietnamese people. About 86% of the population in Vietnam are reported irreligious,but are associated with this tradition.
The Tin How Temple is the oldest extant Taoist temple in San Francisco's Chinatown,and one of the oldest still-operating Chinese temples in the United States. It is dedicated to the Chinese sea goddess Mazu,who is known as Tin How in Cantonese.
Chinese folk religion plays a dynamic role in the lives of the overseas Chinese who have settled in the countries of this geographic region,particularly Burmese Chinese,Singaporean Chinese,Malaysian Chinese,Thai Chinese,Indonesian Chinese and Hoa. Some Chinese Filipinos also still practice some Chinese traditional religions,besides Christianity of either Roman Catholicism or Protestantism,with which some have also varyingly syncretized traditional Chinese religious practices. Chinese folk religion,the ethnic religion of Han Chinese,"Shenism" was especially coined referring to its Southeast Asian expression;another Southeast Asian name for the religion is the Sanskrit expression Satya Dharma.
Asian Garden Mall,known in Vietnamese as Phước Lộc Thọ,is a shopping center in Westminster,California. Opened in 1987,Asian Garden Mall is the first and largest Vietnamese-American shopping mall and is seen as a symbol of the community. The mall is located at 9200 Bolsa Avenue,serving as the focal point of Little Saigon in Orange County and is the site of many cultural and political events in the Vietnamese-American community.
Opera with divine powers (酬神戲) is a form of Chinese opera played at religious ceremonies,including for the gods' birthday,temple opening,at miaohui,ghost festival,Daijiao,and traditional festivals. It is the play performed to welcome the gods' race and is one of a series of celebrations held by the people to thank the gods and reward them for their blessings. Usually performed at temple fairs or theatres. In Guangdong,it is mostly called Shen Gong Xi(神功戲),and in China,in the north,it is mostly called She Xi社戏(the word "She" in the word "She Xi" refers to the place where the Sheshen was worshiped in the old days,and there is another saying that the word "She" was a small unit in the ancient region,and the drama was performed in the She,which was called She drama）。On birthdays,where this form of opera is played,are those of the gods:Xuanwu,Guan Yu,Dragon King,Mazu,Shanshen,City God,and Tudigong.
