This morning we went to the yellow Dragon Temple. It's ALL about destiny ... And so there were lots of fun things we did there. First, at the entrance, there's a crazy display of non tech match.com! All these parents bring a 1 page description of their single son or daughter and "advertise them" by hanging the pages all around. Then there's a mass of people all walking around, reading them and finding what they like. Sometimes the people stand by their page so they'll talk to those interested and show pictures and give more info. Hilarious!!
Ads posted by parents about their kids
From there, we went inside to this fountain. It has a receptacle in the middle and 6 stone "stands" - you stand on the stone you want to "wish" about and throw an old Chinese coin in. There was education, promotion, money, love, marriage & children. So I got 10 Chinese coins and threw them into the marriage one ... I missed EIGHT times but made it on the ninth. Then I threw the last coin into children and missed :(.
Cool cave fountain
There was an opera performance, only females perform. (Crazy, opera performances in a temple!)
And from there we went to the main part of the temple. A buddah guy that has a book of destiny. In the book, it lists who is destined to meet who and when.
So there are 8 cubbies. And in them is a fortune. You choose the category you want, pick a metal fortune thing, trade it for a paper that is in some language. And then these dudes interpret it for you! Mine (I grabbed marriage) said that next year I'd have more than one boyfriend. Many men, and I'll get to choose. The destiny is made bit I have to make it happen. Awesome! Ha ha.
The metal fortune thingy
Then there was a cave thing that took you to a fountain under the yellow dragon statue.
And a statue of babies, that if you rub the butts, it gives you good luck.
So a whole morning of destiny and fortunes and luck seeking!
Then we went to a tea plantation. It was a gorgeous drive cause it's up in the mountains where it's really lush and green and all the tea is terraced. The tea demo was ok but I felt like I was at a pyramid network marketing presentation cause they tried hard core to get us to buy it! This was dragon well green tea. Green tea has nothing on mate!! :)
Lunch and off to Nanjing.
You had many failed attempts to find your marriage partner (8), then you will marry, but apparently you will only try once for a kid and that attempt will fail miserably. Ha ha. Yeah I'm not sure about that coin throwing thing. If my life were based on how well I could throw coins, I would be a broke spinster living in a cave.
ReplyDeleteThe Chinese do seem to like the idea of rubbing chubby statues' round parts, do they not? ;P did you get to rub a Buddha's belly?
What were those wavy things going out toward the circle from the Butt Babies' bodies? Looked an awful lot like wafting stink waves to me. Jus' sayin.
I rubbed everything and did anything that brings you luck, prosperity and love. Hahhahaha. Baby fart smoke?!?
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