At 3:00 PM, Chen Zhezhe got off the train in Linping County, whose scenery was a delight to the eyes.
Unlike ordinary counties, Linping County was a place where two out of every three households fervently believed in Daoism. Statues of the Three Pure Ones, the Six Sovereigns, the Five Northern and Southern Elders, the Three Official Great Emperors, and other deities were enshrined everywhere. Even at the railway station, Daoists in blue-gray robes could frequently be seen—some genuine, some frauds.
The government's religious policy had always been neither to encourage nor to oppose; anything was permitted as long as it did not disrupt stability and unity.
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