Everywhere else in Taiwan, it refers to spirits who don't have descendents to pray for them, but in Chinhu the wanshanye, being the ancestors of current residents, do have descendants to pray for them. But "they are regarded as wanshan-ye," says Huang Wen-po, "because no one could identify individual corpses."
不同於奉祀孤魂野鬼的萬善爺，金湖的萬善爺是自己的祖先，「死得無法辨識的祖先，」黃文博指出。