Certain vestiges of Old China have not been entirely lost, despite determined efforts to eradicate them in the middle of the last century. Folktales and ghost stories are still retold; animism and shamanism persist in guises such as non-empirical Chinese medicine, astrological charts, fortunetellers, marriage readers, and feng shui. The lunar calendar functions alongside the Gregorian. In temples, now treated as living museums, one still finds aged shrines to such beings as the Local Town God.– New China New Art.
vestige (n): a trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.
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