We went to the Six Banyan Tree Buddhist Temple today. Quite an ancient one with a 17 story pagoda. There were many people there today - the 15th of the month is apparently a busy day, plus the moon festival is today. There are 3 huge gold Buddha’s there - each representing past, present and future to remind people that what you do in the past impacts your future so live your present wisely. Our guide told us many people have their children blessed by the monks there. We were not looking to do that, and honestly, Guohua had never been to a Buddhist temple either. Not surprising that a state-run orphanage is not teaching Buddhism to the children. At the temple there was a lot of incense burning and there were turtles bought at the market that were going to be set free in honor of the Mid-autumn Festival (Moon Festival).
We also went to the Chen Family Clan Academy. We had been there 6 years ago - but it was much changed. There are more exhibits about life in earlier Guangzhou. The architecture in Guangzhou is an interesting mix of European and Asia as people from this area immigrated to the US and came back fairly early. Course, I think the porcelain pillows were strictly Chinese!
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