A century-old piece of embroidery originally used in propitiatory rites is used in the dance as the fabric that gets wrapped around the soldiers 'waists and the women dancers, symbolizing both the fetal membranes of a newborn baby as well as the death shroud in which the dying are wrapped.
原本酬神用的百年刺繡桌布，變成裹在士兵腰間及女舞者身上的布衣，既象徵投生時的胎衣，也是死亡前人體淨身的布塊。