A modern animal spirit monument standing at the southwestern corner of the Da’an Meat Market (大安肉品市場) in Da’an. Its date of construction is unknown but appears quite recent, continuing a tradition that began in the Japanese colonial era. Each year offerings are laid before the monument during Ghost Month and a priest is invited to perform the rites of Zhongyuan Pudu (中元普渡).
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- Masayuki Manabe, Cenotaphs Erected for the Repose of Animals’ Soul in Taiwan after World War II, 2019, Vol. 64, pp. 327–363 真辺将之、『戦後台湾の動物慰霊碑―日本統治時代からの連続と断絶―』、2019、第64巻、327–363頁
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