The intersection of joy and sadness In the long rual, all the somber singing about loss and sorrow sometimes is too much even for the bereaved family, so, for example, when they get to the Temple of the Earth God, the master and the old woman suddenly break into hsiang-sheng (traditional fast-paced and witty dialogue).
悲喜交加人生路冗長的儀式中，牽亡陣唱得孝家眷哀思四起，有時卻又逗得他們忍俊不住。像是來到了「土地公廟」，法師和老婆插科打諢，竟說起相聲來了。