In the early hours of Lunar New Year's Day, worshippers from across Taiwan wait before the main hall of Nankunshen Daitian Temple. The temple's official guide explains that tradition once gave special fortune to the first person to place the year's first incense stick in the Kaiji Wuwang censer, prompting worshippers to press forward to reach it first. For safety, the temple now recognizes each worshipper's first stick that morning as a 'first incense.'
This is not an orderly purchasing queue. It is a physical wait shaped by ritual precedence, so the Atlas distinguishes it under Way C as a RELATED EVENT. The prayers differ from person to person, yet worshippers share the same hour and threshold as a new year begins.