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A dim indoor hall with a bare white wall, a ceiling fan and a dark wooden shrine arch. Above a small altar hangs a framed portrait labelled with a name, showing a figure in a yellow-orange head covering and robe seated on a cushion. Five people sit on the floor in front of the altar. In the centre, a bearded man in white ritual clothes and an orange-red shawl sits with hands folded in front of the portrait. Two seated men in white shirts face the altar on the left and right, a woman in orange clothing sits in the middle left, and a person in white sits at far left. A speaker is mounted on the left wall beside a yellow painting.

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