Boneless, floppy puppets were originally used to quell epidemics and exorcise demons, to suppress the stars that caused natural disasters, and to soothe the dragon gods and request that the tiger gods leave before a temple was built.
無骨飄盪的傀儡，古來就具有逐疫驅鬼、鎮壓水火災星，及建廟築屋時安龍神、送虎煞的宗教功能。