Traditional ritual offerings · Burned on your behalf in Taiwan
Zhongyuan Ghost Festival universal salvation tablets and consecrated offerings.
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ALTAR WISH OFFERING

Zhongyuan Universal Rite

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

FROM NOT YET AVAILABLE PREPARATION Within 7 daysCEREMONY · TAIPEI Not published REGISTRATION CLOSES · TAIPEI Not published PHYSICAL CAPACITY Not published
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ZHONGYUAN FESTIVAL TABLETEarth Official of Forgiveness & Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva

Grand seasonal assembly for resolving karmic debts and pacifying all souls.

Presided over by the Earth Official of Forgiveness and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, the annual Zhongyuan Assembly is the supreme cosmic window for clearing karmic burdens. Lodging your family tablet in this grand ritual dissolves lingering generational knots and releases spiritual stagnation.

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01 · No Religion Required

Taiwanese temples welcome everyone regardless of background. Honest sincerity is the only universal language the deities listen to.

02 · Write in Plain English

Submit your wish in plain English. Our lineage scribes translate and hand-brush your petition in classical liturgical Chinese.

03 · 100% Pure Blessing

Authentic white-light Taoist liturgy only. Pure benevolence, cosmic balance, and open doors — zero bad karma, zero negative payback.

WHEN THIS OFFERING FITS

The seventh month comes whether or not anyone sets a table.

  • When the seventh month is here and there is no one at home left to lay the table
  • When you are the one who left, and nobody back home is laying it anymore
  • When someone died in a year you could not travel, and you have not had a day for them since
  • When feeding only your own would not sit right with you, and the ones nobody calls should eat too
  • When a name has been off the family table for years and you want it put back
WHAT YOU RECEIVE

What comes back from the seventh month

What comes back is in writing: the names exactly as they were brushed onto the tablet, the day the rite was kept, and what was laid out and burned. The rice, the clothing paper and the tablet with your names on it all go into the temple furnace together, so only the writing comes home. No photograph comes back from this rite.

The writing is emailed as an encrypted PDF to the address on your order and is also available from your private order page or member account within about seven days of the ceremony date. The seventh month is the heaviest season we keep, and tablets are written and burned in the order they arrive, so a quiet week on your end is not a missed one. The ceremony date and the day the names close are both set before this rite opens, and neither moves once you have paid.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

How the table is laid, and what is burned

  1. 01

    You are asked, in a private form, for each name as it should be written, whatever birth details you hold, and your own name and city, because the table has to know who laid it.

  2. 02

    Each name is brushed onto the paper tablet by hand, and a petition is written naming you as the one offering and them as the ones being called.

  3. 03

    On the day the tablets are set in the rows, the table is laid, and the names are read aloud one at a time before the Officer of Earth, who on this day of the year is held to remit old faults.

  4. 04

    When the incense has burned down, blocks are cast to ask whether the meal is finished, and only then are the clothing paper, the silver and the tablets burned through at the temple furnace.

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Compare the options by purpose and scope.

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Called By Name

One Name

$128

A good fit for

  • One parent, one grandparent, the one person you name first
  • A first seventh month without them
  • A death that happened while you were on the other side of the world
  • A pregnancy that ended, entered under the family surname when there is no name to write
  • Someone who was not family but should still be fed

This option does not include

  • A second name. One name goes on this seat; Four Names carries four and Eight Names carries eight.
  • A living person's name. Someone still here belongs on the Yang Blessing Tablet, and a companion animal on the Pet Memorial Rite.
  • Any promise about how the year goes after, and anything sent to your door. What comes back is the writing of what was done.
  • I have never once set a table for them, and I am the one who should have.
  • I was not there at the end, and I have never made that right.
  • Everyone else in the family has somewhere to be that day. I do not.
  • I think about them most in this month, and I do it alone in a kitchen in another country.

One sheet, one name, read out loud among hundreds.

The Whole House

Four Names

$288

A good fit for

  • Both parents, or a parent and the grandparents behind them
  • A household that has lost more than one person in a few years
  • Siblings and cousins who belong on the same board
  • A family with nobody left in the hometown to open the door
  • The year everyone agreed something should be done and nobody could get there

This option does not include

  • A fifth name. Four is as many as this seat carries; Eight Names carries eight.
  • A living person's name. Anyone still here belongs on the Yang Blessing Tablet, and a companion animal on the Pet Memorial Rite.
  • Advice on anything medical, legal or financial, and anything mailed to you. This is an offering, not counsel and not a parcel.
  • My mother did this every year. Since she died nobody has.
  • We are four siblings in four cities and not one of us has an altar.
  • I am the eldest now and I do not know the steps.
  • There are people in this family I never met who are still mine to feed.
  • There is more than one name, and they were never apart in life.

One seat, four names, and the house arrives together.

The Long Memory

Eight Names / Lineage

$688

A good fit for

  • Eight from the family line, named back as far as anyone remembers
  • An in-law line and a birth line kept on one board
  • Ancestors nobody has fed since the person who knew how to do it died
  • A death by water, by fire, or on the road, where nothing was recovered
  • A family that has been meaning to do this properly for years

This option does not include

  • A ninth name. Eight is the limit on this seat, and there is no wider rung on this rite.
  • A living person's name. Someone still here belongs on the Yang Blessing Tablet, and a companion animal on the Pet Memorial Rite.
  • No rung here promises an outcome, gives medical, legal or financial advice, or sends anything to your door. The names are called and the paper goes into the fire; what returns is the writing of what was done.
  • The list goes back further than the names I can say out loud.
  • There are people on our side who died with no one left to feed them.
  • I am the last one who knows any of this, and after me there is nobody.
  • I have been carrying a list in my head for years and never written it down.
  • Feeding only our own has never sat right with me.

Eight names on one seat, back as far as memory runs.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

What you will provide after checkout

These details allow the petition or offering to be prepared for the right person and intention. They are collected in the private order form after payment.

  • Your full nameRequired after checkout
  • Your structured birth detailsRequired after checkout
  • Delivery channelRequired after checkout
  • Your date of birth for the encrypted PDF password (YYYY-MM-DD)Required after checkout
BEFORE YOU ORDER

Have these ready.

  • One decision before you order, and only one: whether the tablet is written for one name, for four, or for eight. Everything below is asked afterward, in a private form.
  • Your full name, as you would sign it.
  • Your own birth date, the time if you know it, and the city you were born in. The time can be left blank, and nothing is invented to fill it.
  • The name this is offered for, written as it should be read aloud — the name they were called at home, not the one on the paperwork. This one is optional.
  • Their birth date and birthplace, if you hold them. Unsure is a normal answer here, and the tablet is written without them.
  • The written account is emailed as an encrypted PDF to the address on your order and is also available from your private order page or member account. Keep your own date of birth to hand, because it opens the file.
BEFORE YOU DECIDE

Our temple commitments and liturgical care.

  • Your private names and birth details remain strictly confidential within our temple record.
  • Preparation begins once your intake details are received, following the traditional liturgical calendar.
  • Because petitions are brushed by hand and consecrated specifically for you, changes cannot be made once ritual inscription begins.
  • Tablets are brushed by hand and set in traditional rows before the Officer of Earth (地官大帝) on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.
  • Offerings, clothing papers, and memorial tablets are released together in the temple furnace once the divination blocks confirm the feast is complete.

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THE ALTAR TABLE

What is laid out on the day.

  • A bowl of white rice with a stick of incense standing in itEvery dish on this table gets its own stick pushed into it, because a bowl without one is only food sitting out, and nobody arriving knows it was meant for them.
  • A basin of clean water, a towel, a comb and soapSet out first, so anyone who has walked a long road can wash and set themselves right before being asked to sit down.
  • Clothing paperPrinted with cloth, thread, combs and shoes, and burned before the food is offered so that nobody comes to the table in rags.
  • Seasonal fruit, uncutNever banana, plum or pear — said one after another their names sound like asking someone to come in and stay, and this table is set for one day only.
  • Canned and dry provisions stacked into a towerRice, noodles and food that keeps, because for many at this table the road does not end at our door.
  • Silver paper, folded by handSilver is the money of the dead and gold is for the deities, and the two are never folded into the same pile.
  • A lamp left burning at the edge of the tableIt is lit for the ones with no family to call them by name, so they can find the way in.

On the day, if you want to mark it where you are, cook a little more than you need and leave one seat at your table empty. Some people say the names once, aloud, oldest first, and then let the evening go quiet. 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.

  • The name tablet — one seat of yellow paper, each name brushed on by hand and stood in the rows with the rest
  • Clothing paper — bundles printed with cloth, thread, combs and shoes, burned before the food so that nobody comes to the table in rags
  • Silver paper folded into ingots by hand — creased and tied one sheet at a time, never run through in a stack
  • A folded paper lotus — around a hundred sheets to a flower, folded petal by petal
  • A universal-rite flag brushed with your surname, planted at the edge of the table where it can be seen from a distance
  • Gold paper for the Officer of Earth — the courtesy paid upward before anything at all is set out for the table
TEMPLE ARCHIVE · CULTURAL CONTEXT

Photographed in the temple halls in Taiwan.

Reference views of the temple altar, ritual vessels, and seasonal calendars that frame the work.

An ingot-shaped offering vessel and a prayer cushion at the temple.TEMPLE PHOTOGRAPH · CULTURAL CONTEXTTEMPLE ARCHIVEAn ingot-shaped offering vessel and a prayer cushion in the temple setting.Recorded in the temple archive. See the service description for the reading or ritual included with your order.
A small original photograph of a printed lunar service calendar.TEMPLE PHOTOGRAPH · CULTURAL CONTEXTTEMPLE ARCHIVEThe photographed notice lists a blessing ceremony on the 11th day of each lunar month, spring and autumn Dou rites, a Zhongyuan rite on lunar 7/14, and the Golden Mother's birthday observances on lunar 7/16–18. It also lists daily free on-site shoujing. These are lunar dates; this small source photograph is shown at its original detail level.Recorded in the temple archive. See the service description for the reading or ritual included with your order.A photographed 2026 one-day ceremony calendar with a January 2027 entry.TEMPLE PHOTOGRAPH · CULTURAL CONTEXTTEMPLE ARCHIVEThe photographed ceremony calendar lists one-day rites on 22 November and 20 December 2026, and 17 January 2027, alongside earlier 2026 dates. Its memorial categories include ancestors, animals, infant spirits and other dedications. The notes for 26 April and 20 September concern infant offerings only. This notice is a dated reference; website registration opens only for separately confirmed arrangements.Recorded in the temple archive. See the service description for the reading or ritual included with your order.An uncompleted memorial petition form for infant-spirit observances.TEMPLE PHOTOGRAPH · CULTURAL CONTEXTTEMPLE ARCHIVEThis uncompleted pink form is a temple memorial petition for infant-spirit observances. Its printed text and blank fields show how a written petition is prepared before a ceremony. The photograph contains no customer dedication. This specific form should be distinguished from a petition for ancestors or a pet memorial.Recorded in the temple archive. See the service description for the reading or ritual included with your order.A temple notice about voluntary sponsorship and distribution of blessed rice.TEMPLE PHOTOGRAPH · CULTURAL CONTEXTTEMPLE ARCHIVEThis photographed notice describes voluntary rice sponsorship during its spring and autumn blessing ceremonies. After the observance, participants may collect rice, or the temple can distribute it to community groups and families in need. The notice gives no fixed fee. The photograph explains the custom; any website donation arrangement must state the donation amount and coordination fee separately.Recorded in the temple archive. See the service description for the reading or ritual included with your order.
PROPORTION & MAGNITUDE OF OFFERING · 資糧份量與規制

Matching the scale of the offering to the weight of the wish.

In classical temple practice, paper offerings and incense serve as spiritual ballast (資糧). While every petition is brushed by hand with equal reverence, patrons facing major commercial decisions, multi-year bottlenecks, or deep family transitions choose a larger vessel of hand-folded gold paper and extended liturgy proportional to the matter at hand.

初階・專注起點

Focused Spark (Standard Rite)

US$38 – US$68

Vessel & Paper Scale: 1 dedicated hand-written petition + foundational incense & gold paper ingot tray

Best Suited For: A recent concern, a quiet personal prayer, or an introductory offering

進階・雙倍加持

Sustained Vessel (Expanded Rite)

US$78 – US$98

Vessel & Paper Scale: Expanded petition + doubled gold ingots, treasury tallies, and extended altar liturgy

Best Suited For: Matters that have felt stalled for several months, partnership friction, or persistent obstacles

圓滿・大壇全席

Sovereign Completion (Grand Rite)

US$128 – US$259

Vessel & Paper Scale: Layered gold & silver treasury vessels, dedicated benefactor tallies, and full lineage liturgy

Best Suited For: Major life transitions, business founding, real estate acquisitions, or critical milestones

Our allied priests and temple stewards prepare each tier with verified lineage craftsmanship in Taiwan. Receipts and photographic proof of the burning ceremony are preserved in your private account.

DESTINY & TIMING COMPANION · 先祈福、後看流年

Your prayer settles the spirit; your chart reveals when to act.

Once an intention is placed before the altar, knowing your personal timing helps you walk the months ahead with composure. Cast your four-tradition birth chart for free on our sister house, Sage Song, or commission a personal written reading.

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