On the eve of Chinese New Year, members from various communities gather to receive blessings and to burn incense in worship of the deities.
en.wikipedia.org Food offerings made to deities are placed on an altar set up in the courtyard, including apples, pears, peaches, grapes, pomegranates, melons, oranges, and pomelos.
en.wikipedia.org Their ability to commune with deities via prayer occasionally extricates them from peril, but can also put them in it.
en.wikipedia.org A centrally placed large wooden carving covers all three levels, behind the shrines; a large number of wooden carvings mostly depict wrathful looking protective deities.
en.wikipedia.org Some of these sculptures depict supernatural deities, while others the flesh-and-blood embodiments on earth.
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