It's not easy to make a trip from the Lin Family Manor to the temple. The nearest one, Yelingdu Temple, requires a long walk along mountain paths.
Today, Qin Shi and others invited Lin Wanwan to the temple fair at Yelingdu Temple.
From the ninth to the fifteenth of each month, Yelingdu Temple hosts a 7-day event called the temple fair, where numerous goods are gathered.
You can ride a horse to the foot of the mountain, but then you have to leave your horse at the caravan station at the mountain base and climb the stairs on foot to reach the temple gate at mid-mountain.
Normally, such inconveniently located temples would not be popular, but Yelingdu Temple's incense offerings are astonishingly prosperous. Every time devotees come to burn incense, they encounter the temple under expansion.
This prosperity stems from the temple's successful students who give back to it.
