DistantNews
Support us
🇹🇼 Taiwan /Culture & Society

TV Relay Station Offers Rice-Feast Prayers, With Sanitary Pads on the Altar for a Reliable Signal

From Liberty Times · () Chinese

Translated from Chinese and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

News Official statement Context piece
  • Nantou County officials held a Ghost Month ceremony at the Jiji Mountain television relay station.
  • Offerings included cookies and sanitary pads, whose brand name evokes the hope that the station and its signal remain dependable.
  • The relay station serves most of Nantou County and parts of Yunlin County, despite difficult mountain access and weather-related road disruptions.

A television relay station in Taiwan’s Nantou County made an unusual offering during a Ghost Month prayer ceremony: sanitary pads joined cookies on the altar.

Officials said the pads represented a wish for the signal to remain dependable, while the green cookies known as “Guai Guai” symbolized a hope that the equipment would operate smoothly. The ceremony also sought protection for staff who travel up the mountain to work.

The Jiji Mountain relay station stands at an elevation of 1,392 meters. It carries digital terrestrial television signals to most townships in Nantou County, as well as Douliu, Gukeng and Linnei in neighboring Yunlin County.

The station sits on a mountaintop, making access difficult. Typhoons and heavy rain can trigger landslides and bring down trees, blocking roads. County personnel regularly inspect and maintain the facility, and officials prepared the offerings during Ghost Month to pray for safe journeys and stable transmissions.

About this summary

Originally published by Liberty Times in Chinese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

More Stories

From Our Blog