A lot of money to offer

How much bundles of money have you ever seen in your life? Or, did you ever see some news about bank or stock on TV? It's a dream for everybody in the world to see piles of money in their own bedroom. Maybe you can realize that dream if you go this temple on a certain celebration day.

As you see, the piles of baggage are all "money." I'm not lying now. Only the problem is that the color of money is yellow and red. Yes, moneys are standby to be burnt or dedicated to their god(s) at altars of this temple in Tainan city. Peculiarly, this temple's highest god is "One." They worship "One" as well as the other known gods.

So many people gather, worship, wish, burn incenses and draw their fortune with prayer. Different from Churches, those temples and shrines of local folk religions are always open to any believers and visitors. Feast is a festival of not only believers but also merchants nearby and neighbors. I like it. I sometimes think Christianity lost this point which locates and co-exist with local society.

New slideshow by blogger here.

I added a slideshow in sidebar as you see. Actually I was seeking a feed elements by google, but I just did it when I'm reading about that feed articels on web.

Flickr is nice but only 200 photos are available for free user that I cannot do anything more there. I have another account on yahoo but also it's hard to link with two different username at the same time.

The other recent discovery is photobucket. They provide 1G as well, however, it's not the point. They allow remix users' photos' and video clips on web with Premiere software. While Myspace bans any kinds of copyrighted sources, original sources are more important now when publishing.

One of my friends answered back, "enough!" when I tried to suggest to create a new account in photobucket if she needs more space for her fotos. It doesn't mean she has enough space, rather, my continuous suggestions of new discoveries is making her crazy on. I understand.

Even I am confused by so many usernames and passwords, dear... But the point is that I need a good space for my blogs and photos to share. I'm not free account collector even though I'm a collector of various stuffs in my room.

Let me see... I'll see how is this new slideshow with mix of feed, blog element, and photo space for the time being. The photos are from one of my albums in Picasaweb. Everything is google family now, dear...

Eating coffin with religious faith!!!

 
 

Hey, can you imagine? They are coffin. Left is "garlic taste coffin bread," the other is "coffin meal." But they are delicious!

Coffin meal is a famous Tainan sepcial food. The restaurant I took this picture is proud of their 130 years history. As you see, it's a toast with very thick soup in the middle of it. Soup is usually chicken, seafood, and some vege. I've tried it a year ago somewhere and forgot the place. Recently A teacher showed me a book about a brave Taiwanese woman, which reads feeling and memories about this city, and also have some photos of food. And I found the one of this coffin meal.
You'd bet we've rushed there then, sure. It's in Hai-an(海安) road, where was old streets and streams but rennovated totally as a new town of young people.
The bread is found at the bakery near school. It's not bad neither. I don't like they baked it with too much butter, but I like garlic taste yet.
If you wanna visit and try coffin meal, please see my Picasaweb and check the map. I tried to point out the exact place, however provided map it limited as shown there. But you can find it easily.

Dragon Ball ?

보낸 사람 variety of Ta...

It's from Picasweb Album.

Burning wish

This is one of the most interesting scene I used to see in Taiwan. As I know, there is not that kind of custom in Korea. It's Taoism mixed with folk religion and faith. They buy bunch of yellow paper money and burn at temple, shrine, and street periodically. I can see shopkeeper or crew set a table of feast for their god(s) just in front of shop every half month. They also burn those paper money at the end of ceremony. It seems not different from Sunday worship of a peculiar religion every half of half month. It's the matter of faith, wish, and hope for something. That's people's ordinary life and mind.

Happy gods

The building is totally a temporary construction. Behind this huge pantheon is just a bundle of wooden or metal beams. There are no hall, nave, altar, even no place fo monks.
The gods are fancy however. Some are hanging and moving by wind. Some are from ancient stories, some are captured from legends. Most are based on Taoism with folk religion. I am not capable to distinguish them of course even though I've visited so many temples in Taiwan.
Nobody was there when I went there. No clergy, no pilgrim. Only abandoned gods were moving by wind wearing smile, all the time, maybe forever.

King challenges Mc in downtown

The second Berger King in Tainan. 20 meters opposite to McDonald.

fan, signature, business, street

Not that woman, star was sweating a lot to give his signature on every books (or CD? I didn't concern in honest) which fans purchaced on the chair. See left corner.

He is, actually was, one of the member of so-called F4 in Taiwan. Yes, it's business.

She is trying to attract more passangers. It's in front of a department store in downtown.