Drought bites again, and people are craving for rain but it doesn’t rain. That brings back my childhood memory of people in my native town—officials plus the local gentry and elderly—going to the Dragon King Temple to pray for rain. Before that, they would fast and perform ablution. Once in the temple, they would offer sacrifices to the “Dragon King,” a fierce-looking clay or wooden sculpture, who is said to take charge of distributing rain. Amid smoke that kept rising Drought bites again, and people are craving for rain but it does not rain. That brings back my childhood memory of people in my native town-officials plus the local gentry and elderly-going to the Dragon King Temple to pray for rain. Before that, they would fast and perform ablution. Once in the temple, they would offer sacrifices to the “Dragon King,” a fierce-looking clay or wooden sculpture, who is said to take charge of distributing rain. Amid smoke that kept rising