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HONG KONG On Easter Sunday at Yuen Long in the New Territories, visitors can watch a day-long traditional festival in honor of Tin Hau, the Taoist goddess of the sea, even though it is 11 days before her birthday. Amid dragon dances and fortune-telling, fishermen from across the city gather to pray for calm waters and heavy nets. Call Grayline Tours...
...roof ridges end in the skyward pointing "swallow tails" once typical of southeast China. Some houses are filled with period furnishings and costumes, and the family shrine still represents the family's departed ancestors. A winding path up the island's highest point leads up to an ancient Taoist temple, giant golf ball-shaped radar units and superb seaviews...
...free afternoons and weekends, they went sightseeing and enjoyed trying the local cuisine. Duane, whom everyone calls Pete, developed a taste for eel with hot pepper. They were invited to cook dinner with a Chinese family in their home, and were allowed to visit the hut of a Taoist monk--a rare privilege, even for the Chinese. After waiting almost a lifetime to travel at all, the Petersons now plan to do volunteer vacations every year. Says Pete: "We're hooked...
...strangely, if you take a step out of his office, you can find a woman selling Taoist trinkets. A hundred steps away is a small Beijing park that is packed most mornings with dozens of Chinese practicing the slo-mo robotics of Tai Chi, which while secular is deeply Taoist. A mile away is a Protestant church that draws 3,000 souls to its weekend services. Within a hundred miles are scores of monasteries, seminaries and altars. Despite 50 years of the most violent scrubbing, religion still coats China with an ancient varnish. And as the nation's core ideology...
...religions--and outside the supervision of the government--are hundreds of independent Chinese religions that gird China like a rural electric network, illuminating lives house by house. In Fujian province each spring, tens of thousands of the faithful parade from town to town in religious "long marches" celebrating localized Taoist gods. Tai Shan, a holy mountain south of Beijing, is one of the country's most popular tourist sites--especially among would-be grandmothers, who trudge to the top, drape red strings over trees and then return home to wait for the grandson this ritual is supposed to guarantee...