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聽香

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一種傳統問卜習俗:響#元宵#中秋 夜果陣,響神前燒香默禱,表明欲測嘅事,用所聽到路人嘅第一句話來判斷吉凶 (Literally: listen incense. A traditional way of divination: in the Lantern Festival (15th of the first month) or Mid-autumn Festival, pray before god with burning incense and ask the question you want god to discover for you. It is believed that the god will reply through the first sentence the prayer can listen from the passerby.)

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以前好多少女都會用聽香呢種方法去求姻緣。

Previously, many teenage girls used the way "listen incense" as the divination for asking chance of romance.