On the day of the monkey festival, young people with both parents still living were selected to go to the homes where there had been a death in the family in the previous year in order to "sweep out" the inauspicious atmosphere. The family would give them tobacco leaves by way of compensation.
猴祭當天，他們推選父母俱存的少年，到年度內的喪家開門除喪，為他們掃除穢氣，喪家則致贈煙草梗作為補償。