Fortune in your hands

Photos and text by Florence Cheng

People can control their own destiny with their own hands by working hard and standing up to difficulties bravely. In Chinese belief, however, people can foresee their own destinies through palm reading, and they can improve their chances for good luck through stick-drawing.

Above: There are lots of palm-reading stalls at the Wong Tai Sin Temple for those who are curious about their futures.

Above: Devotees bring fruit and meat and burn incense ans joss-sticks to their favorite gods and pray for good fortune at Wong Tai Sin Temple.

Above: This young man is having a stick drawing. Chinese people believe that one's fortune and destiny can be predicted through a reading of the sticks drawn.




November 1995

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