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There was a large Taoist Temple just one block east of Qingjing Mosque with quite a few shriveled women beggers in front of the temple. These ladies stick one bony and strong finger into your arm and keep on poking away while asking for money. I abhor and detest being poked! First because it frightens me when someone comes from behind and begins poking away, and second, it hurts! They never bother the men.
Travels With Sheila practically ran inside the Taoist Temple, was instructed in the proper way to pray, selected fortune sticks used inside the temple that you bring to a woman who "reads" the stick, and then walked outside where men were sitting on small stools waiting for customers to tell their fortunes. Altogether fun even if we didn't like our fortunes. Whatever happened to, "You will have a long life and be very wealthy"?
