The Yin-Yang Way by Night

When he was six, his mother died, and his father went west to seek work and never returned. He fled to Sanyuan Temple, where the old Daoist Shen gave him a bowl of corn grits and a new name: Shen Yexing. “Walk the yin-yang road by night; go about your business in the human world by day.” From then on, those who traveled by night had no sun to light their way. They had to feel their way forward in the dark.