There’s Nothing Ordinary About My Spirit Shrine

Other spirit mediums burn incense to serve the Hu, Huang, Chang, and Mang spirits.

Under the red cloth in my home sits the Great Emperor of Dongyue.

My name is Lin Ye, a sickly kid from the foot of Changbai Mountain. I became famous as a child after tossing a firecracker into the outhouse where Auntie Li was squatting, blasting her with shit.

That blast opened my celestial eye.

From then on, weasels perched on the rafters and grinned at me, while my great-great-grandfather, dead for over a century, knocked on my window at midnight to make me memorize the family rules.

There was also an old man who called himself Grandpa Hu San. He insisted I had extraordinary bones and wanted to set up a spirit altar for me.