"Fearing that his age and lack of students might cause the practice of fashioning the organs of sacrificial pigs into shapes during Pingtung’s Lantern Festival in the Liouduei region (六堆) to die out, 84 year-old Hsieh You-fa (謝有發) has commissioned the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology to document the practice. Hsieh, from Sinpi Township (新埤), said that during the ceremony the intestines and inner organs of a sacrificed pig are molded into the shapes of a man or other animals. The practice, called Kan Wan (看碗), is aimed at propitiating the heavens and asking for a prosperous and peaceful year. “I started learning the practice when I was 18,” Hsieh said, adding that he had been in charge of making Kan Wan for village ceremonies ever since." - Jessie

"Hsieh told them that he was worried the practice would be forgotten and he was willing to teach anyone who was willing to learn, the group said, adding that they also hoped that by filming the process of making Kan Wan they would help the spread the practice, currently only seen in Hakka villages." - Jessie

Smart man. I wish we had documentation for other traditional crafts and/or old tech that are waning. - Spidra Webster