Name of Ritual

Showing Remorse

Description of Ritual/Practice

• In the past, children were required to enter the house via kneeing or crawling if they were absent during their parents’ passing. It is their penance for being unfilial and missing their parents’ final moments.

• Cantonese from Sze Ap 四邑 however, require their daughters (who were absent during the parent’s passing, and this is especially so for married daughters) to kneel their way back to the house from the village entrance. The kneeling begins when the Taoist priest blows on a horn to call upon the spirit.

Who practices it? Who conducts the ritual?

Children of the deceased.

Is it still practiced now?

No longer practiced now.