Mostly folk practice: bridge-keepers, ferry families, and paddy farmers maintain his observances. His few formal shrines stand at great confluences and famous bridges, tended by priests who double as flood-wardens and rain-callers.
Offerings cast from bridges at planting and harvest; first-rain observances; apologies spoken aloud before any work that disturbs a riverbed; the racing of boats in his honor at the Dragon Boat Festival (Brighthearth 5).
Bridge shrines and confluence stones throughout Shenyun. River-folk hold that any bridge old enough to creak is already half a shrine.
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