ABSTRACT
The god of the first local cult set up in the settlement of Mountainstreet as a small town is generally called Ang Gong. In Chapter 4, I described how every year a figure of Ang Gong from a more central temple to his cult, in a larger town down the road, is brought in procession to a number of neighbouring localities, and to Mountainstreet on the fifteenth day of the tenth month itself. Every household contributes towards the costs of the procession and almost every household feasts. So almost every resident, even a young schoolchild who describes the festival as nothing more than theatre, spectacle and activity (hao kan, re nao), identifies the temple’s cult and the festival as that of Ang Gong.
