In the Buddhist and Daoist teachings, newly created Buddha statues and divine statues require not only consecration and empowerment but also a special and important ritual.
The Buddhist sect calls this the 'encapsulation'.
Daoism calls it the 'embedding'.
The Buddhist sect's statues have a square opening made at the back, into which are placed the five metals (gold, silver, copper, iron, tin), the five woods (pine, cypress, white sandalwood, red sandalwood, bodhi wood), the five grains (rice, wheat, barley, beans, sesame), the five cloths (blue cloth, white cloth, yellow cloth, red cloth, green cloth), the five medicines (bitter root, sea floating stone, dried vine pear, Buddha's hand root, sweet flag), and the five gemstones (turquoise, red coral, jade, crystal, agate) to be sealed inside.
To serve as the five internal organs and six viscera of the statue.
