Toki Pona, a language inspired by Taoist ideals, was designed to test how simple a language could be.

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But strangely, if you take a step out of his office, you can find a woman selling Taoist trinkets.

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The secretary-general of the Taoist Association says he has information that she has bought up vast tracts of land in Cambodia.

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The Location: Tai O is a rambling village of creaky houses, many with colonial and art-deco charm, interspersed with Taoist and Buddhist temples.

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In Fujian province each spring, tens of thousands of the faithful parade from town to town in religious "long marches" celebrating localized Taoist gods.

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They are part neighbourhood association centre, part temple, part community foundation, and almost always decorated in coiling dragons, paintings of Immortals, Confucian sages, Taoist demigods and Buddhist scripture, photos of ancestors and inlaid classical Chinese script.

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