On 30 January 2012, we spent a couple of hours to visit the most famous Wong Tai Sin Temple in Hong Kong. This temple is well-known for its accurate fortune-telling. People from the south Asia took long trip to visit the temple because of that. In Hong Kong, one is not considered to be Hong Kong citizen if he/she knows nothing about it.
Wong Tai Sin Temple is crowded with believers all year round. We waited behind a long line to get into the temple. The believers would light incenses, knee before the main altar, make a wish, and shake a bamboo cylinder containing bamboo sticks until one falls out. With that stick, one exchanges for a piece of paper with the same number. Then, the fortune-teller is going to tell you your fortune. It is nothing like what you see in the fortune-cookie.
The age of believers is of a wide range. We saw people from very young to very old.
From what we heard, Wong Tai Sin Temple offers wedding ceremonies too.
People are very serious about Wong Tai Sin. By the time they were leaving the temple, people left with hope.
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