Meanwhile, inside the courtyard, some Daoist priests who were not skilled in Tai Chi led another group of worshippers in chanting scriptures and performing morning prayers.
After Yun Zhaozhao's Clear Breeze Temple grew and prospered, she specially sent the Daoist priests of Clear Breeze Temple to other Daoist temples and Daoist colleges for training and study. In the past, Clear Breeze Temple was not very skilled at even holding a prayer ceremony, but now Clear Breeze Temple is quite proficient in chanting scriptures, praying for blessings, and even performing various rituals.
In conclusion, Clear Breeze Temple is now increasingly resembling a proper Daoist temple.
Yun Zhaozhao could foresee that by noon or afternoon, the number of tour groups coming to visit would gradually increase. At that time, museums and cultural and creative shops would gradually be crowded with worshippers, and even the temples where one could kneel and pray at any time would require queuing to enter.
In short, the entire Clear Breeze Temple is thriving.
If we compare Clear Breeze Temple to an ancient tree, then Clear Breeze Temple Guesthouse, Clear Breeze Temple Farm, and even Daoist Qiuting's Clear Breeze Temple Daoist Medical Clinic are all branches of the ancient tree. They diligently supply nutrients to Clear Breeze Temple every day, while also relying on Clear Breeze Temple to nourish themselves and become more lush and verdant.
Yun Zhaozhao is quite satisfied with the current development of Clear Breeze Temple. After all, when she first opened the temple, she never imagined that she could develop Clear Breeze Temple to its current state.
So after inspecting the territory, Yun Zhaozhao went back to her new recliner to lie down and sleep.
Perhaps because she slept so well yesterday, she found herself unable to fall asleep today, even as she lay in the new recliner.
So much so that when she met her tea ceremony teacher in the afternoon, she seemed drowsy.
Since the new Clear Breeze Temple was built, there has been a lot of vacant space. Since these spaces are just sitting empty, Clear Breeze Temple occasionally rents them out to businesses so they can hold events.
Sometimes they hold tea ceremonies, sometimes they teach the guqin (a seven-stringed zither) or give cultural lectures. In short, Clear Breeze Temple can earn money by renting out the venue and gain public recognition by spreading its teachings.
Today, Clear Breeze Temple is hosting a tea tasting and philosophical discussion event.
Yun Zhaozhao usually doesn't participate in such events, but today, because there was a live broadcast and it was to promote Clear Breeze Temple's new tea— Dao Enlightenment Tea, Yun Zhaozhao not only participated but even dressed up specially.
Fortunately, although she was frequently sleepy when meeting the tea ceremony teacher, Yun Zhaozhao mustered her energy once the recording officially started and performed very well. However, even the viewers in the live stream noticed that Yun Zhaozhao was drinking cup after cup of tea.
Not only netizens, but even members of Clear Breeze Temple couldn't help but sigh in their hearts: Temple Master Yun is indeed dedicated, worthy of being our Clear Breeze Temple's free image ambassador.
Only Yun Zhaozhao herself was frantically chugging tea while silently reminding herself: Drink up, I really can't fall asleep during the live stream!
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Wen Xu worked overtime until quite late that day before getting home.
Before going upstairs, he made a point of checking if the light was on in Yun Zhaozhao's room—this was his habit every night when he got home from work, mainly to confirm whether Yun Zhaozhao had arrived home and whether he needed to drive to the Daoist temple to pick her up again.
The lights were already on in Yun Zhaozhao's room, clearly indicating that she had returned home. So Wen Xu didn't think much of it and simply pressed the button for his floor.
As soon as the elevator doors opened, before he even reached his doorstep, Wen Xu spotted a paper bag with the words " Clear Breeze Temple " written on it hanging on his doorknob. Wen Xu was very familiar with this bag, since he always used such paper bags when he went to the Clear Breeze Temple cafeteria to get takeout.
Wen Xu initially thought it was some delicious food that Yun Zhaozhao had packed for him, but when he slowly walked over and carefully opened the paper bag, he was shocked to find that inside were several doses of decocted Chinese herbal medicine.
The Chinese herbal medicine was sealed in transparent bags, each with the words "Miracle Antipyretic" written on it in bold, flamboyant handwriting.
Wen Xu looked at the packets of herbs in his hand, and then imagined Yun Zhaozhao writing on the packets, and couldn't help but laugh.
Outside the window, the moon, which had been obscured by dark clouds, peeked out from behind them, as if sensing the Wen Xu and joy in the heart, or perhaps signifying that someone, after a long wait, was finally about to see the moon through the clouds.
Chapter 161
Last year, Clear Breeze Temple was awarded the title of "Five-Good Daoist Temple," and everyone at the Clear Breeze Temple was overjoyed. To this day, the plaque for "Five-Good Daoist Temple" still hangs squarely at the main entrance of Clear Breeze Temple.
Now, a new round of Daoist temple selection is about to begin, but this time, the selection will focus on the "Top Ten Daoist Temples".
In the entire City A, only True Yang Temple named one of the "Top Ten Daoist Temples" so far, and it is also one of the "Top Ten Daoist Temples in the Country," which shows the prestige of this selection.
Yun Zhaozhao doesn't dare to dream of being named one of the "Top Ten Daoist Temples in the Country," but she feels that Clear Breeze Temple Yun Zhaozhao could try its best to be named one of the "Top Ten Daoist Temples in the Province."
The selection of "Top Ten Daoist Temples in the Province" requires comprehensive consideration of multiple aspects. After some private consideration, Yun Zhaozhao found that Clear Breeze Temple currently meets the criteria.
For example, the top ten Daoist temples in the province should be selected based on their social and cultural contributions.
Clear Breeze Temple has led the villagers in afforestation and has continuously driven the tourism boom. It is considered one of the best-performing emerging Daoist temples in terms of cultural dissemination and tourism development.
For example, the selection of the top ten Daoist temples in the province should consider the integration of natural and cultural landscapes. After continuous reconstruction and renovation, Clear Breeze Temple has transformed from a dilapidated little Daoist temple into a natural oxygen bar built against Clear Breeze Mountain, with its own natural back garden and orchard, as well as a babbling brook.
In addition to these advantages, Clear Breeze Temple is also the most modern and efficient of all the newly established Daoist temples.
Clear Breeze Temple was the first to introduce electronic guides and a digital electronic museum, and it also implemented a membership system for visitors. Under Yun Zhaozhao's humane management, the number of registered Daoist priests at Clear Breeze Temple has grown from two at the beginning to nearly a thousand today. Moreover, what is most remarkable is that Clear Breeze Temple has also absorbed a large number of graduates majoring in agriculture and forestry, making outstanding contributions to alleviating employment pressure in City A.
If we had to pinpoint any shortcomings Clear Breeze Temple might have, it would probably be its historical significance.
After all, True Yang Temple was selected as one of the "Top Ten Daoist Temples in China" because of its long history and status as the ancestral temple of the Zhengyi School Daoism, giving it a natural appeal to believers. Simply put, even if True Yang Temple did nothing but quietly exist, anyone with a bit of Daoist faith would go there to worship. Unlike Clear Breeze Temple, which might need to work 100% to attract even one-tenth of its followers.
Regardless, now that the "Top Ten Daoist Temples in the Province" selection has been announced, Clear Breeze Temple should still try its best to qualify.
In Yun Zhaozhao's own words, participation is the most important thing; it would be better if she could win, but if she couldn't, she would just consider it training.
This selection process typically combines expert review with online voting.
Yun Zhaozhao didn't know exactly how the expert reviewers conducted their evaluations, but after comprehensive consideration, the expert review panel ranked Clear Breeze Temple 49th.
Barely making it into the top 50.
Fortunately, those who make it into the top 50 by the expert review panel can participate in the online voting stage.
Unfortunately, Clear Breeze Temple was a restricted area for entry, and the pressure from online voting was immense.
After the expert evaluation results were announced, Tang Li said something that Yun Zhaozhao couldn't refute, "If I hadn't participated in this evaluation, I wouldn't have known that City A had so many Daoist temples. I thought there were at most ten or so!"
Yun Zhaozhao: "..."Who says otherwise!"
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Fortunately, Clear Breeze Temple Clear Breeze Temple has a significant advantage in online voting. After all, almost all of their members are young people who are good at using the internet.
In addition to the young members of Clear Breeze Temple Clear Breeze Temple, there are also many college student volunteers. These students used to come to Clear Breeze Temple for internships every year, and now they are finally putting their hard work to good use.
In any case, as soon as the online poll for Clear Breeze Temple was launched, the college students were the most enthusiastic. They not only voted themselves, but also actively sent the voting QR code to their family groups and school groups to solicit votes.
What moved Yun Zhaozhao even more was that the dean of the City A Agricultural College, who had previously cooperated most with Clear Breeze Temple, even took the initiative to ask Yun Zhaozhao for Clear Breeze Temple's voting QR code, saying that he would make it into a promotional poster and place it in the most conspicuous place at the entrance of the college to help promote Clear Breeze Temple.
If others are so invested in voting for Clear Breeze Temple, it would be a huge disservice to everyone's hard work if Clear Breeze Temple were to falter at this crucial moment.
Therefore, ever since they learned about these things, everyone at Clear Breeze Temple has treated the "Top Ten Daoist Temples in the Province" selection as a major annual event for the Clear Breeze Temple.
First of all, when listening to Jingting and Daoist Chang Kong broadcast, they wished they could hang the voting QR code directly above their heads.
Secondly, Yun Zhaozhao mobilized Wen Xu, and together with Wen Xu, mobilized the company employees of Old President Wen, calling on everyone to vote for Clear Breeze Temple.
Finally, Clear Breeze Temple itself, Clear Breeze Temple Guesthouse, Clear Breeze Temple Daoist Medical Clinic, and even Clear Breeze Temple Farm all launched corresponding campaign activities. Other places were fine, with small gifts for voting, but when Yun Zhaozhao thought about Daoist Qiuting's Daoist Medical Clinic, where every patient had to vote for Clear Breeze Temple in order to see Daoist Qiuting, she felt both heartbroken and amused.
Fortunately, thanks to everyone's efforts, Clear Breeze Temple's online ranking has been steadily climbing, quickly rising from 49th to the top 30, and then from the top 30 to the top 15...
Then it got stuck at position 15 and wouldn't move.
Yun Zhaozhao later discovered that this voting activity was like academic performance. If you compare the ranking to grades, it's easy to go from failing to passing, but it's a different story to go from passing to 90, or from 90 to 100.
The voting results remained deadlocked, which at one point made Yun Zhaozhao lose confidence.