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Yang Blessing Tablet

A dated ceremony with a server-controlled physical tablet seat.

FROMNOT YET AVAILABLEPREPARATIONWithin 7 daysCEREMONY · TAIPEINot publishedREGISTRATION CLOSES · TAIPEINot publishedPHYSICAL CAPACITYNot published

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IS THIS FOR YOU?

The names on this tablet belong to people who are still here.

When someone you love is going through a hard stretch and you want their name spoken somewhere formal, not just worried over at night
When the year has gone wrong in every direction at once — the work, the health, the paperwork, the sleep — and you want the whole of it addressed on one day rather than one worry at a time
When a family is scattered across time zones and nobody can get to a temple on the day
When you cannot fix the thing itself, and putting their name where it will be read out loud is the one act actually available to you
When the person is living. If the name you have in mind is someone who has died, the Yin Memorial Tablet is the rite written for them

CHOOSE THE OFFERING

Choose the form that fits the moment.

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CHOOSE A PLANOne NameNOT YET AVAILABLE

Choose this when there is one person you keep coming back to — a parent, a child, or yourself — and you want their name standing in the hall on the day rather than only in your head.

One living name, alone on the face, at US$68. The paper, the ink, the incense and the reading are the same ones the larger rungs get; the only thing that changes further down the page is how many living names the tablet is written for.

Four NamesNOT YET AVAILABLE

Choose this when the bad year belongs to the whole house rather than to any one person in it, and you would rather put all four names on one tablet than sit there deciding which of them needs it most. Four is usually two parents and two children, but it can be any four living people you would call yours.

Up to four living names on the one tablet at US$158, so a household stands together instead of arriving as four separate orders. The rite around them does not change at this rung; there are four names to write instead of one, and that is the whole of the difference.

Eight Names / LineageNOT YET AVAILABLE

Choose this when more than one generation is going through it at once and you want up to eight of them named together, rather than the list edited down to whoever seems worst off. This is the one people come back for after a single card, when the year turned out to be bigger than one name.

Up to eight living names at US$288, which for most families is three generations on a single face. It is the same tablet, the same ink and the same reading as the smaller rungs; the length of the list is what you are choosing here, and eight is where it stops.

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Somewhere To Put It

One Name

$68

Suited to

One person, living, and clearly the one on your mind
A first offering, before you decide whether this house is for you
Yourself, when it is your own year that has gone wrong and there is nobody to ask on your behalf
A parent, when you are the one who noticed
One fixed thing already on the calendar — a move, a first day at a new job, a long flight

Not covered here

A second name. This tablet is written for one living person; a partner, a child or a parent goes on a tablet of their own, or you move up to Four Names and they stand together on one.
A name belonging to someone who has died. Red is the mark of the living, and a departed name belongs on the Yin Memorial Tablet, which is the rite written for them.
Anything mailed to you. The tablet is burned at the close of the ceremony, and nothing is shipped unless we arrange it with you separately.

I keep meaning to do something for them, and the year keeps going.
Nothing is exactly wrong, and nothing is going right either.
I am the one who worries in this family, and I have nowhere to put it.
It is the middle of the night here and there is not one useful thing I can do from this far away.

One name, in red, standing while the hall chants.

No Choosing Between Them

Four Names

$158

Suited to

A household under one roof, or one that used to be
Two parents and two children, named together on one face
A couple, plus the two people they are both quietly worrying about
A year where the trouble belongs to the house rather than to any one person in it
Siblings splitting the cost of doing something for their mother and father

Not covered here

A fifth name. Four is the count on this tablet; a fifth means moving up to Eight Names, or a second tablet of its own, rather than smaller handwriting in the margin.
A departed name written in among the living ones. The two are not mixed on one face. A name that has died belongs on the Yin Memorial Tablet, which is the rite written for them.

It is not one of us. It is all of us, this year.
Every plan this house makes falls over in the last week before it happens.
Whichever one of them I do something for, I feel it for the other three.
The one who used to arrange things like this is the one who is unwell.
I am tired of deciding which of them needs it most.

Four names on one face. Nobody left off the list.

The Whole List

Eight Names / Lineage

$288

Suited to

Three generations, named on one face
A family line written from the eldest down, up to eight of them
A year that has gone wrong for several people at once
Grandparents, parents, children, and the in-laws who count as family
A household that wants this done once, in full, rather than in pieces across three years

Not covered here

A ninth name. Eight is the limit of one tablet, and a ninth name means a second tablet rather than smaller handwriting.
A departed name anywhere on the face. No part of this rite is written for the dead. The Yin Memorial Tablet is the rite written for them.
Any promise about how the year turns out, and nothing here is medical, legal or financial advice. What you are paying for is the offering itself: written by hand, stood in the hall, read out on the day, whatever the year does next.

It goes back further than this year, and further than my parents.
My grandparents are old, my parents are tired, and my children are watching all of it.
There are eight people I would name and I have never named more than one.
I would rather name all of them than sit there editing the list.
Somebody in every family ends up being the one who arranges things. In ours it is me.

Eight names, one face, nobody held over to next year.

READY WHEN THE INTENTION IS CLEAR

Place the offering with care.

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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

How the tablet is written and where it stands

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A private form opens once your order is paid and asks for your own name and birth details, then the living name the tablet is written for and their birth date and birthplace if you know them; a Gregorian date is enough and we convert it to the lunar calendar.
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The tablet is written by hand in vermilion on red stock, the name of the rite running down the right edge and the living names down the face.
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On the ceremony date the tablet is carried in and stood in the blessing rack with the rest, and the petition is read aloud in front of it, name by name, at the hour the hall has set.
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It stands through the whole ceremony, and when the last chant ends it is taken down and burned by hand at the temple furnace rather than left in the rack.

THE ALTAR TABLE

What is laid out on the day.

Three cups of clear teaFilled to the same height, none fuller than another, because nobody named on this tablet is being asked for ahead of anybody else.
Five whole fruits, an odd countWhole and uncut, counted odd, because an odd count is what you set out for the living side of a house.
A pair of red candlesLit as a pair and left burning while the names are read, so no part of the table is in shadow when the petition goes up.
Longevity peachesSteamed buns shaped and blushed like peaches, the oldest plain sign for long life, set out because the first thing a blessing tablet asks is that the person named goes on being here.
A coil of longevity noodlesLeft in one uncut length, since you do not cut the thing you are asking to be lengthened.
Fresh flowers, nothing whiteBright and in season, because white flowers belong on a memorial table and this is not one.

On the ceremony date, keep the day plain if you would like something to do with it: a meal without meat, an early night, the phone face down for a while. Some people hold the names in mind around the hour the hall opens in Taipei; others are asleep straight through it. None of this is required, and nothing at the altar depends on it.

PREPARED FOR THE RITE

The same goods are prepared at every tier.

Longevity gold — the sheets offered to a living deity, creased along the fold used for the living and never the fold used for the dead
Red tablet stock — cut to the height of a hand, brushed by hand in the hall and never printed
Vermilion ink — ground for the living side of the hall and used on this rite for nothing else
The yellow petition — every name written on the tablet set down with its birth date and birthplace, read aloud in front of the tablet
Peace incense — three sticks lit and set before the reading begins, the ash left undisturbed until the ceremony closes

The Vermilion Tablet

A card of red stock, the height of a hand, written down the face in vermilion and stood upright in the blessing rack. Red is not decoration here; it is the plain mark that the person named is alive, and a tablet for the living stands up where a slip for the dead lies flat. Whether one name is on it or eight, it is one tablet in one rack, brushed by hand, carried in with the rest and read from at the hour the hall has set. For the length of the ceremony it is in the room, at eye level, in a hall where the chanting does not stop. When the last chant ends it is taken down and burned, because a blessing tablet is meant to be spent rather than kept. It is a small thing to hold in two hands, and it is still their name, in a temple in Taiwan, on a day you can write in your calendar.

WHAT YOU RECEIVE

What comes back, and what does not

A written completion record comes back to you privately: the ceremony date, the names exactly as they stood on the tablet, and the wording of the petition read over them. It reaches you the way you asked for it at ordering, either as an email carrying a PDF that opens with your own date of birth or as a message on WhatsApp. The tablet itself does not come back; it is burned by hand at the close of the ceremony, which is what you paid for it to do, and no photograph comes back from this rite.

The completion record reaches you within about seven days of the ceremony date. Please do not go looking for it on the day itself. The rack is still full then, and nothing is written out until the last tablet has come down and been burned. If a ceremony is moved for weather or for a temple's own calendar, you are told the new date before it happens, not after.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

A short private-details preview

The actual form stays in the secure order flow. We ask only for the details required for this offering.

Your full nameRequired after checkout
Your structured birth detailsRequired after checkout
Delivery channelRequired after checkout

BEFORE YOU ORDER

Have these ready.

Your own full name, as the person placing the offering.
Your own birth date and birthplace, and the hour of birth if you happen to know it. A Gregorian date is enough and we convert it to the lunar calendar; the hour is optional and nothing here waits on it.
The living name the tablet is written for, spelled the way it should stand on the face. A name they actually answer to is better than a formal one nobody uses. If the offering is for you, you can leave it and your own name is used.
Their birth date and birthplace, if you have them. This part is optional. A name alone is enough for the tablet, and a village since renamed or swallowed by a city can be given as the nearest city today.
How you want the completion record sent: an email address or a WhatsApp number, whichever one you actually check. By email it arrives as a PDF that opens with your own date of birth, so nobody who picks up your phone reads it by accident.

TRUST AND BOUNDARIES

A traditional service, handled with care.

Your private order details stay within the secure order and intake flow.
The published preparation time begins after the required intake is complete.
Review the applicable refund policy before payment; changes may be limited once preparation has begun.
This is a traditional religious service, not medical, legal, or financial advice.
The rite is a formal expression of prayer and respect; it does not guarantee a specific life result.

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