What is mean Fan Tai Sui （犯太岁）? The majority people only know that who born on same year with the same “zodiac animal” sign is consider as Fan Tai Sui. Today I just sharing the way how Penangites praying to Tai Sui Gods and regarding about Fan Tai Sui, you able to search the internet and below website can provide a professional explain to you what Tai Sui is.
什么是犯太岁？很多人只知道生肖是本命年就是犯太岁。今天我想和大家分享槟城华人是如何去化解犯太岁，而至于什么是犯太岁，大家可以点击以下这网页去得到更好的解释：

What Is Fan Tai Sui ? 什么是犯太岁？

Register yourself or behalf 为自己或代表别人去注册:

The staff will help to fill in your date of birth as follow the traditional Chinese calendar, zodiac animal (any of the twelve animals, representing the twelve Earthly Branches, used to symbolize the year in which a person is born) and current home address in Chinese character. Why in Chinese character, the staff said the gods are from the old age of China, they don’t understand English…. Haha.
庙祝会用中文为你填写你的农历的时辰八字，生肖，以及住家地址。或许你有疑问为什么住家地址要用中文？庙祝会镇定的对你说：神明都是古代人物，看不懂英文啦！哈哈。

Ignite the incense 点燃香:

Each person is given three branches of incense and you need to light it on. They will provide you also a stack of “money paper” then queue to wait for next step.
每位信徒都会得到三支香，你必须去点燃它。庙祝也会给你一叠的纸钱，接着排队等待下一个步骤。

Staff help to pray 庙祝帮你诵经

You just kneel in front of the gods and the staff will help you to pray it as follow all your personal information and let the gods be a patron saint to protect you for this whole year. Just stand in front of gods if you are representing someone.
庙祝会要求你跪在神明面前接着根据你的个人资料为你诵经，期望神明可以在这个犯太岁年里保佑你。相对来说，如果你是代表某人，立站在神明前面就可以了。

Make a god’s imprint on your clothes 让神明给你的衣物做盖印:

The staff will make a god’s imprint on your clothes with a special make wood type imprint tool after pray, they believe the god will make a safe trip wherever you go when you are wearing the clothes.
庙祝会为你带来的衣物做盖印，因为大家都相信神明会保佑你出入平安。

Burning “Paper money” 烧纸钱 :

Throw the “Paper money” into the stove and burn it which normally place outside of the temple, they believe the god can receive it at “another space or netherworld. “
接着就是把纸钱丢在炉里燃烧，通常火炉都是设在庙外边。信徒们都相信神明会在另一个空间或阴间接受到这些纸钱。

The final step is face to the temple main entrance then put your both hands together for final pray. You have completed the Fan Ta Sui praying after final pray.
最后一个步骤就是双手合十面向神庙大门做最后的拜拜，这样就完成了整个化解犯太岁的步骤。