On the sixth day of the sixth month, books and clothes were aired; on the seventh day of the seventh month, needles were floated skillfully. By festival tradition, every household with daughters would place a bowl of water in the sunlight. The girls would gently float needles upon its surface, then observe the needles' reflections at the bottom of the bowl to predict whether they possessed deft hands. In a sense, it was also a prediction of their future.
With the introduction of Buddhism and the rise of Taoism, the Ghost Festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, also known as Ullambana, became another important festival of the seventh month. Outside the palace, people floated river lanterns on Shichahai and admired lotus blossoms. Within the palace, Buddhist jackfruit was brought in, and river lanterns were set afloat in Western Park.
Since neither the admiral nor Cao Xi was currently permitted to leave their residences, Nick became Wan Ning's companion on her trip to burn incense. It was said that the autumn red leaves on the mountain where this temple stood were especially beautiful. During the Tang dynasty, it had been called Merit Temple, but because of those beautiful red leaves, it was renamed Qixia Temple.
At the end of the Yuan dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang had nowhere left to turn, he became a monk for eight years. Only after the Imperial Enlightenment Temple where he had taken shelter was destroyed by war, leaving him desperate once more, did he obtain the auspicious divination from Garan Bodhisattva: "Follow the male, and prosperity shall come after." It gave him tremendous inspiration. He then went to Haozhou to join Guo Zixing's peasant rebel army. Less than a year after enlisting, he had won Guo Zixing's esteem, and within merely three years,