The Hsiahai Cheng-Huang (City God) Temple located in Da-Dao-Cheng, Taipei has been holding Day Patrol on City God's birthday, on 13 May in the China Lunar Calendar, since the end of 19(superscript th) century. Stores in the neighborhood finance allegoric floats to support the celebration and promote their business at the same time. Musical processions of the eight bigger musical associations and other groups, also participate enthusiastically in this event, making it hilarious and attractive to the general public. The Sacred Birthday Procession and Night Patrol events had always been held by "the Association of Rituals"; however, owing to some organizational and funding problems, the Association has no longer been entrusted by the City God Temple to be in charge of the rituals since the year 1991. Instead, only few of the eight bigger musical associations initiated the events and made patrols for City God. In 1996, the year of the Temple’s 150th anniversary, the Temple hosted the celebration and again held Night Patrol and Sacred Birthday Procession for City God with the help of Beiguan processions and Guardian Spirits Clubs of the eight bigger musical associations. The scale of the patrols was record-breaking. Those participants-in arranging five divine army camps around the temple as generals, the Eight Generals in Night Patrol and the Ten Generals, the Giants General Fan and Xie in Sacred Birthday Procession-were in a state of mind described by Mircea Eliade, a theologian, as "theologomonon" while the younger participants joined the event with a mind "to follow cultural fashions." The previous annual Night Patrol and Sacred Birthday Procession were regular rituals for religious purity while those held for the 150th anniversary were irregular ones.