Man Mo Temple in Tai Po Market,
Pictures don't do it justice, but this centennial, heritage listed building houses an altar for worshipping two deities.
Namely, the God of Literature, Man Tai and the God of War, Mo Tai, ..... hence the origin of the name of the temple.
The building itself is quite small and located on a bustling market street, so one might be forgiven for not noticing it at all whilst buying daily groceries.
What attracted us, were not the countless statues of the revered deities in question, but the sight of huge joss coils (for a lack of better word) that were suspended from the ceiling and all lit up, thus the thick smoke emanating from the temple was quite a bit of an attack on our lungs.
It beats us how the temple caretakers are able to operate in such a 'smog', day in, day out.......I bet the Gods provide them with some 'protection', otherwise the temple has already gone into liquidation by now in these times and ages of lawsuits involving health matters :p
Apparently scholars in the old ages worshipped these 2 Gods asking for support and hoping for good results.
So makes us think, why not send our Dragon Girl there and hope for the better.....regarding her school education......one might never know :p
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