Sending the gods off together Apart from sending off their own household deities, three years ago devotees of Luerhmen's Queen of Heaven Temple in Matzu Village of Tainan City began to hold a ceremony to announce the coming of spring and send off the temple god to Heaven together with their household deities.
過了送神之日，街上開始賣起春聯，而美容院、計程車等服務業，一般也在這時候漲價，加收一點約定俗成的年終獎金，開始過年了！集體送神除了自家的送神，三年前，信奉鹿耳門天后宮媽祖的台南市媽祖庄庄民更在媽祖的「指示」之下，舉行報春活動與「集體送神」儀式。