萬應公 - Kaohsiung City

The belief in the unowned lone soul, or the solitary soul sacrifice, is called Liji in ancient times. It is a folk belief in East Asia. Belief, which avoids the souls of those who have no heirs, succumbed to death, and those who have died unjustly, is gradually derived from the world because of no incense offerings. It spreads to Taiwan and other places along with Hokkiens and Hakka immigrants and becomes a Taiwanese folk belief. In Chinese folk beliefs, it is believed that there is no one to bury the deceased for worship, and in the old days, restricted by the patriarchal system, women who died without marrying, or those who died due to various accidents or murders, are ghosts who will not be able to rest in peace. Incense for offering or revenge. People are deeply afraid of such ghosts, so the state or society presides over sacrifices for them, and through unified burials and sacrifices, they can appease the dead and restore peace to the people. The ruling monarchs of the past dynasties faced each other's beliefs in Yinggong, sometimes the state and the court established "li altars" and "righteous tombs" to place them, and sometimes they regarded them as "fornicating worship" and "fortune-telling temples" to suppress them. destruction. Investigations in recent years have found that the Youying Temple in Taiwan may be dedicated to the bones of the indigenous people of the Pingpu ethnic group. Because the Pingpu people originally lived on the flat ground, the funeral ceremonies were different from that of the Han people, so the Han people often dig out the bones of no masters during the land reclamation.