The name Kuan-Shu, which means "observing trees" in Chinese, refers to Buddhistscripture about attaining truth while immersed in the peacefulness of nature.
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 Buddhistscripture, photos of ancestors and inlaid classical Chinese script.