Temple finance in the Chinese world runs on small transactions at volume and on episodic large subscriptions. The daily income is incense money in the box, plus the sale of incense, candles, oil for the lamps, spirit money, charms and printed fortune slips; larger temples run vegetarian restaurants and lease commercial space. Named donations for statuary, roof tiles or lamp plaques are solicited and publicly inscribed. When a jiao is held, cost is met by a per-household subscription across the district, and the subscriber list is itself a ritual object, read aloud and burned so that heaven has the names. The money is typically held not by clergy but by a lay management committee, which hires priests for occasions, engages the opera troupe and controls the building — an arrangement that makes Chinese temples community property administered by local notables. In Taiwan and Fujian these committees are often significant local political actors, and control of a major temple's funds is contested accordingly.