Identifier: liondragoninnort00john (find matches)
Title: Lion and dragon in northern China
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir, 1874-1938
Subjects: Weihaiwei
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ffering parentscalled M little Mang-Shen or Tai Sui. The Lantern Festivall is assigned to the fifteenthday of the first month. As the Chinese year is strictlydetermined by lunations, this means of course thatthe festival occurs at the time of the first full moonof the year. Coloured-paper lanterns are hung at thedoors of houses and shops and are also carried inprocession. Above the doors of the houses are oftenhung fir-branches, betokening prosperity and especi-ally longevity.2 The family eat little round cakes ofglutinous rice which, being supposed to represent the 1 Shang Yila?i Chieh, Feast of the First Full Moon. * Cf. pp. 262 seq. From Gibbons Decline and Fall (vol. i. p. 344) weknow that long after the establishment of Christianity there was keptup, in Europe, a pagan festival at which it was customary to decoratethe doors of houses with branches of laurel and to hang out lanterns.The doors of Roman houses were regarded as being under the specialprotection of the household gods.
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FIRST-FULL-MOON STILT-WALKERS (see p. 183).

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