（臺灣印象）范將軍、謝將軍

[英文]Matsumoto (1990) writes: @Fan and Xie were the indispensable figures in the parade@ (p. 412). The 1932 Taiwan Railway Guide explained to its Japanese audience the extravagance of these processions translation: @Taiwanese worship and ritual life has a particular sensibility; they don$t think twice about consuming all of their hard-earned and thriftily accumulated money on a single festival procession. They offer pigs, chickens, ducks, etc. as a form of sacrifice at festival time, they set off exploding rows of bamboo tubes packed with gunpowder and burn incense in worship@ (Taiwan sotokufu 1932, p. 32). 七爺八爺因其外型又稱作長爺短爺（高爺矮爺），又叫黑白無常鬼，習慣上又稱為謝、范二將軍，從祀在城隍廟，專押解人犯去神祗前審判，凡是城隍出巡賽會，必為行列的最前端。 English Translation: The masked generals Xie 谢将军 and Fan 范将军 on this postcard are known as Long 长爷 and Short 短爷, also named as White Grim Reaper 黑无常 and Black Grim Reaper 白无常. They are worshiped in Chenghuang Temple 城隍庙. Both generals are responsible for grabbing evil spirits of dead people to the judge. The figures of Fan and Xie always walk in the front of the parade whenever there is one starting from Chenghuang Temple (NCL 002417852).these @masked likenesses of Generals Fan 范将軍 and Xie 謝将軍 appear in Taiwanese festival processions. In lively worship of the spirits, the eyeballs and the chins of the masks move while the dancers wave their arms. This phenomenon cannot be seen outside of Taiwan.