The Floating World of Castle Peak Bay |
Common terms and phrases
aggressive ancestors behavior boat people's boat person bride brothers Cantonese opera Castle Peak Bay catch catty ceremony chapter Chau Cheung child China Chinese Choi clothes Communist croaker dragon economic extremely father feasts festival fictive fictive kinship fish fishermen fishery frequently fung4 geomancy ghosts girls Hakka hand liners hand trawlers Hau Wong Hoklou Hong Kong huge important incense INDIANENSIS informants Japanese Kowloon kuai6 laans land and boat leader less Leung lineages live fish luck Ma Wan Macau mahjongg marriage married MDCCCXX mou5 paai2 pattern ports problems rarely reason refugees religion religious restaurant rites saan4 sampans San Hui san5 shaman shore shrine SIGILLUM social society sometimes songs spirit-mediums spirits Tanka Taoist temple Teochiu Tin Hau Tin Hau temple traditional trawlers typhoon typhoon shelter usually VERITAS village waterfront weather Western wife women worship Yun Long