The Ground Breaking Ceremony

The hubby's factory will be shifting to Rawang after Chinese New Year next year. Earlier this year before the construction began, we went over to the new factory site to perform a "Ground Breaking Ceremony". The purpose of this ceremony is to inform any spirits living on the land that we intend to use it and please excuse us if we're disturbing them. Or at least that's the gist of it...

The belief is that if we don't perform this ceremony and the spirits of the land get upset, they may cause trouble for us either during the construction phase or later on when business commences. This is done to appease for taking over their land.

What does the ceremony involve? The usual stuff - serving tea, lighting jost sticks, burning paper... After that, the hubby is supposed to scatter rice grains across the ground and everyone takes turns to dig a bit of the earth up.