On December 9 of last year, as dawn was breaking, after a week of fasting from eating meat, the Buddhist prohibition against killing was lifted and the faithful citizens of Ta-chia Township in Taichung County set to the slaughter of chickens and ducks and displayed pigs--mouths gorged with pineapple--on the platform for sacrificial gifts, all in celebration of the construction of a new temple.
爾愛其羊．我愛其禮在廟會賽豬公、祭孔拔牛毛的背後，中國人想表達的是什麼樣的心意？鄉間小廟裡，救苦救難觀世音菩薩案前除了果蔬糕餅，赫然出現雞鴨牲禮。