The Immortals’ influence threaded into craft and custom. Potters began to throw vessels that held not only rice and water but syllables for lost lullabies; dancers traced steps that measured grief into geometry; fishermen knotted their nets in patterns that recalled the genealogies of their ancestors. Festivals shifted: offerings included not only fruit and incense but folded pages where people wrote the names they feared would be forgotten. These pages were not burned; they were fed to the river, and the river returned them in tides shaped like memory.