Template:Did you know nominations/Hoi Tong Monastery

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 19:44, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

Hoi Tong Monastery

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The Hoi Tong pigs at feedtime, by Auguste Borget (1838)

... that Guangzhou's Hoi Tong Monastery formerly housed sacred pigs so fat they could barely walk?

ALT1:... that Buddha was once cleared out of Guangzhou's Ocean Banner Temple to make room for an English embassy?
ALT2:... that Guangzhou's Hoi Tong Monastery was once a center of kung fu training?
ALT3:... that the Ocean Banner Temple isn't named after an ocean or a banner?
ALT4:... that the Ocean Banner Temple was one of the few sites open to foreigners in Guangzhou until the Opium Wars?
ALT5:... that the ancient banyan trees of the Hoi Tong Monastery were lost during the Taiping Rebellion?
Reviewed: ~~Will do~~ Romesh Chandra
Comment: Pictures for the other hooks available at the page, including "John Thomson's photograph of the inner courtyards of the Ocean Banner Temple (1874)" and "Thomas Allom's sketch of the temple's main Buddhas (1843)"
Reviewers don't need to worry. You only need to verify whatever hook looks most interesting to you, not all of them.

Created by LlywelynII (talk). Self-nominated at 00:51, 3 July 2016 (UTC).

This article is new enough and long enough. It is neutral and free from copyright issues as far as I can see. The image of the monastery is in the public domain and I like ALT0, but having found page 177 of the cited source, I see that the pigs were not "sacred", but were kept to show respect for animal life. I thought of "revered", "respected" or "venerated" for the hook, but none of these seems quite right. You may be able to think of something better. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:38, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Thank you for the review and hope it was an interesting topic. That said, the first OED definition of "sacred" apart from the exclusively Christian senses is "dedicated, set apart, exclusively appropriated to some person or some special purpose" which fits these pigs just fine. Since that's true, I'm not going to emend it at all, but you're the reviewer—you're welcome to just nix the word (which might make it more compelling), review another hook, or (although this is probably impossible on the internet) realize you were mistaken in your initial impression. — LlywelynII 13:30, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
OK then, I can see that the definition of "sacred" is a bit wider than I had thought, so this is ready to go with ALT0 and I will strike the other hooks. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:39, 17 July 2016 (UTC)