A temple in Hong Kong has one of the biggest gatherings of fortune tellers in Asia.

Wong Tai Sin Temple in Kowloon is said to be good for people with health or business problems because the man who it is named after made a medicine to cure all ills.

Legend has it Wong Tai Sin was living as a shepherd when he was taught how to make the medication at only 15.

He spent the next 40 years in seclusion before his brother found him.

Wong Tai Sin is supposed to have turned boulders into sheep to represent those he had lost and the temple is guarded by statues of sheep to this day.

Today the temple is a meeting point for the community and is most busy during Chinese New Year and Wong Tai Sin's birthday on the 23rd day of the eight lunar months.

It is a popular place for Kau Cim fortune telling where hundreds of sticks are rattled in ceremonious cylinders.

When one falls out it is read to give that person their fortune.

The temple is open from 07:00 to 17:30, local time, every day.

It is located out in the New Territories, near affordable accommodation in Kowloon.

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Legend from China's Han Dynasty tells the story of a fortune teller directing a man to take his family to high ground for the ninth day of the ninth moon.

He did as the soothsayer told him, only to come back down to discover every living thing had died.

The double nine is unlucky in Chinese because it creates too much yang, which is why families ascend hills to balance this out.


The Chung Yeung Festival consists of organised hikes commemorating what the Woon family did.

Cakes are also baked as part of the celebration and make for a tasty treat at walkers' summits.

They are called Ko, which literally means top, and according to superstition that is exactly where people will rise that eat them.

As well as a time to hike, the Chung Yeung Festival is a time to remember the dead and pay respects by the graves of lost loved ones.

This often involves traditional cleansing rites.

Each year the date of the festival changes, but in 2008 it takes place on October 7th.

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Lanterns illuminate the night's sky and visitors indulge their sweet tooth at Hong Kong's Mid-Autumn Festival this year.

Cakes are a special part of this event, which commemorates the method used by the Mongols to smuggle messages to revolutionaries in the 14th century – by hiding paper notes inside confectionary!

The event has since been marked by local families who light lanterns on the hillsides around the former British territory, in the shape of animals, and eat cake under the light of the autumn moon.

Moon cakes are sweet and made of ground lotus, sesame seed paste, egg yolk and other ingredients, according to the recipe from the Hong Kong Tourist Board.

The celebrations take place on September 14th this year between 20.00 and 23.00, local time, at Victoria Park, Causeway Road in Causeway Bay. Admission is free.

One of the highlights of the Mid-Autumn festival this year can be found lurking in the streets behind Causeway Bay recreation grounds – a dragon measuring 67 metres!

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