This is the pineapple shaped joss-stick that I bought as a gift for the Jade Emperor. Yesterday afternoon, I went to the temple to see the caretaker lighting it.
To light the joss-stick, kerosene had to be poured onto the top of the joss-sticks. Actually, there were many people who had brought 10 feet tall joss-sticks to be burnt at mid-night to welcome the new year but I requested that mine be lit a day earlier as I had actually promised the pineapple joss-stick as a gift for the Jade Emperor's birthday which fell on the 6th day of the 12th lunar month. This is considered a belated birthday gift and I wanted it to be lit before the start of a new year.
Here are some of the joss-sticks which will be burnt as offerings for the deity on new year's day. There were easily a hundred joss-sticks there.
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