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This day we had an art work at Jingshan. With two hospitable locals there, we did have a great time doing our blue dye. The blue dye came from a kind of leaves growing in the mountain in New Taipei City, and the locals are used to soaking the leaves into water to extract the pigment in it. The lady taught us several ways to make the white sheet show different patterns after dying. Everyone can be an artist while dying. I really love the atmosphere in the mountain in New Taipei City. Without hustle and bustle, we enjoyed a leisure and carefree time. Then the Dharma Drum  Museum was also great. Not only because of the food there (how could they cook the meals so yummy especially for vegetarians!!! ), but the deep meaning of Chan, the calligraphy hanging on the wall, all of them gave me another experience to understand the meaning of Buddhism. For example, the nine "levels" of lotus means that there are two levels in the Buddhism's heaven, and you must to do something good or help people a lot to allow yourself to company with the "God" forever. That was so cool!