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Wong Tai Sin Temple (Chinese: 黃大仙祠) is a well known shrine and tourist attraction in Hong Kong. [1] It is dedicated to Wong Tai Sin, or the Great Immortal Wong. [2] The 18,000 m 2 (190,000 sq ft) Taoist temple is famed for the many prayers answered: "What you request is what you get" (有求必應) via a practice called kau chim.
Wong Tai Sin or Huang Daxian (Chinese: 黃大仙) is a Chinese Taoist deity popular in Jinhua, Zhejiang, and Hong Kong with the power of healing. The name, meaning the "Great Immortal Wong (Huang)", is the divine form of Huang Chuping or Wong Cho Ping ( 黃初平 ; c. 328 – c. 386), a Taoist hermit from Jinhua during the Eastern Jin dynasty .
Seam Si at a temple in Thailand. In Hong Kong, by and large the most popular place for this fortune telling practice is the Wong Tai Sin Temple which draws thousands to millions of people each year. [2] In Thailand, kau chim is commonly known as seam si (Thai: เซียมซี; alternatively spelled siem si, siem see).
Wong Tai Sin is an area in Wong Tai Sin District, New Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area was named after the Wong Tai Sin Temple. [1] The area was previously known as Chuk Yuen or Chuk Un, prior to the intake of two Wong Tai Sin Estates. The populace of the estates, the prosperity of Wong Tai Sin Temple and the completion of Wong Tai Sin MTR station ...
The district derives its name from the Wong Tai Sin Temple, dedicated to Wong Tai Sin, which is located there. The district is also the location of the Chi Lin Nunnery , built in the Tang dynasty style, a popular tourist attraction.
Wong Tai Sin Temple (simplified Chinese: 黄大仙祠; traditional Chinese: 黃大仙祠; pinyin: Huáng dàxiān cí; Jyutping: wong4 daai6 sin5 zi2) is a major tourist attraction dedicated to Chinese deity Wong Tai Sin. Situated in the Huadi Subdistrict, Liwan District of Guangzhou, it is a Taoist temple. It is just one of many temples ...
Nga Tsin Wai Tsuen, also known as Hing Yau Yu Tsuen, was a walled village in Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon, Hong Kong with a history spanning more than 600 years. It was the last walled village in the urban core of Hong Kong before its resumption for redevelopment by the Urban Renewal Authority (URA), a government agency, in 2016.
Wong Tai Sin Temple (Guangzhou), a temple in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China Wong Dai Sin Temple (Markham) , a Taoist temple in Ontario, Canada Topics referred to by the same term