The past week I've noticed a lot of people having these fires in steel canisters. I found out the other day that it is Ghost week and people in Taiwan throw paper money in the canisters. They also have a bunch of food, ginseng, apples, other fruits and stuff on a table with sticks of incense burning from them. The whole purpose is to get rid of ghosts of the relatives and other people from their family who are now dead.
Today, I took a long walk not too far from my house. Even though it was raining most of the day, a lot of the sidewalks are covered, so you can keep dry. It's nice because you don't have to deal with umbrellas everywhere. I saw a lot of these fires in canisters today with people throwing in their yellow paper money.
Most of the people couldn't speak any English in this area. It's in Taipei County so there are still a lot of people who have never even met a foreigner. They are very friendly and welcome to having their picture taken though.
Actually my main purpose was to go to the Lin Garden Estate nearby. I tried to get into the one gate which I thought was the entrance. The gate was only letting people out and I asked a man if he knew where the entrance was. He wasn't sure but about 10 minutes later he caught up to me and said to me out of breath, "I'm sorry but the Lin Garden has closed for the day. Please come on another day during the hours of operation." I said, "Thanks for letting me know."
He was sweating when he walked away.
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