In places where water networks are dense and waterways are developed, there will certainly be many wild Taoists, either predicting marriages, setting feng shui, or selling some questionable talisman potions. They also draw talismans and spring cards, offer a few words of auspicious sayings, and ask for celebratory words...
Medicine stalls, talisman stalls, fortune-telling stalls—once you enter the city gates, you'll see sheep and cowhide stalls everywhere, raising a bagua flag. Those with skills wear a Daoist robe, while those without settle for a mixed cloth cap, watching people's manner of approach, pinching their middle and index fingers together, speaking human words when seeing humans, ghost words when seeing ghosts, only revealing the truth at the point of death.
Why? Simply to get some Copper Coins, to earn some Silver Tael. Thus, in the folk saying: "Monks encircle lands, Taoists scam money."
