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Treasure, Orientation and the Ancestors 2021 Directed by Gui Shuzhong 摆五方
The Four-Day Taiping Qing Jiao is celebrated from the second to the fifth day of the ninth month on the Chinese lunar calendar each year in the Laifang village, West Fujian. The ritual includes blessings, sacrifice ancestors, divination, exorcism, and many other processes. The climax of those is the Bai-wu-fang ritual on the fifth day of the ninth Lunar month. Lai lineage in the village performed this ritual also to sacrifice their ancestors. Before the traditional stage , villages put tables in five directions（East, West, South, North and Middle）, setting on the heirlooms of all ethnic groups on the tables, to show their wealth and power.
