Wang-Yew Boat Ceremony

The film is about a boat ceremony that took place in Tainan County twenty years ago. Wang-Yew is a god that drives away pestilence, and keeps the peace. Villagers build a boat to guild the god into their village for the ceremony, and then parade the boat around the village. It is then placed in a field or on the coast and burned, to signify that all diseases have been driven away.