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The Small World - Space

My dad is a faithful Buddhist, one of the most memorable thing when I was a child that is the between the last day of last year and the first day of the new year in Chinese calendar, we have to stay up whole night and go to temple to pray, and getting good luck for the following year. The temple that we always go to located on the top of mountain, we have to climb on the giant stairs to get the temple. Because I was just a little kid, I do not understand why we need to climbing at late night, all I remembered is the endless stairs that lead me to somewhere heavenly. 


In the temple, there's always a lot of dogs, most of them are local breeds or stray dogs, people from the temple will take them in if they see any stray dogs. The interesting thing is a lot stray dogs will come to the temple, looking for 'home'. But not cat, there's literally 0 cat in the temple. Because there's saying 'Dogs bring Lucky and Wealth, Cats bring death'


The roof of temple is very special, it has the accurate smooth curved angle, and each direction with different animal figure according to Fengshui. 


Another memory of experiences in the temple that is Smoke, the pungent, choking smell of smoke filled the air. But people love to see the smoke, the smoke in the temple wherein is a designe for peace and reconciliation of believers of the several opinions of these times about ordinances, to a forbearance of each other in love, and meeknesse, and humility.


The radio is the one thing that I brought with me to the United States, it can play the buddha music, and reminds me the memories of my childhood. and also the wishes from my family. 


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