A few lines by the Song dynasty poet Lu You come to mind: "Sacrificial meats all around, and rich sacrificial wines, local people all at worship, wishing for a year of abundance; For the picture of a universe all at peace, no better image do I know of than the rumbling drums of the earth god celebrations."
不由得想起宋朝詩人陸游的〈春社〉詩：「社肉如林社酒濃，鄉鄰羅拜祝年豐；太平氣象吾能說，盡在冬冬社鼓中。」失去了土地的土地公