Yuk Hui Temple (Pak Tai Temple)

This guide to Yuk Hui Temple on Cheung Chau in Hong Kong opens with a legend of a Song-dynasty general who threw his sword into the South China Sea during a doomed battle, and a fisherman who later hauled it from these waters and brought it to the island's new temple. It follows the plague of 1777 that the temple's founding is said to have ended, and the six years islanders spent building it to honor Pak Tai, Supreme Emperor of the Northern Heaven. You'll also hear how the temple's courtyard became the starting point for Cheung Chau's Bun Festival parade. The iron sword from the legend is still kept inside, near the main altar.