![]() ![]() Outside the temple, under umbrellas, many people offer their help to interpret the oracle’s answers. If the result is positive, you can keep the oracle in your pocket, otherwise is recommended to burn it right away. They will kindly skip number 100: a divination too bad to be given to anyone. Hundreds of bamboo sticks shaked produce a very loud noise inside the temple.Ī guardian will give you a pink piece of paper with the correspondent oracle’s message. That number (your oracle answer) corresponds to an ancient poetry and provides an answer to your question, to be interpreted. The temple is always so full!Ī box full of numbered sticks has to be shacked until just one will fall out. In Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho temple, people of any age would stop for a long time or briefly, before going to work, to school or while going to the market, asking for a prediction to the merciful Guanyin. ![]() ![]() Recently I flipped through an “old” sketchbook, where I reported a ritual inside a Chinese temple in Singapore during our Urban Sketchers Symposium in 2015 and nice memories of that trip came alive again. ![]()
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