India has the largest population of any country in the world, and among the more than 150 countries around the globe where Taiwan’s Known-You Seed Company sells seeds, India is its number-one overseas market.
Before the Premier12 tournament of the World Baseball Softball Confederation in 2024, a netizen who felt uneasy about the event went online to the divination webpage of Donggang’s Jhen Hai Temple and received a “fortune verse” with the meaning “following hardship, rewards will follow,” thereby giving a boost to fan morale. Later the Taiwan team did indeed win the competition, adding a new aura to the practice of divination in Taiwan. But just what is it that Taiwanese ask of the gods? And how do fortune verses provide them with wisdom and solace?
