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... boats in constant movement . They float around without aim or direction while the celebrants eat their dinner , talk , or admire the neighbor's boat or his daughter's new dress . The crowds on the shore are perhaps still gayer . They ...
... boats in constant movement . They float around without aim or direction while the celebrants eat their dinner , talk , or admire the neighbor's boat or his daughter's new dress . The crowds on the shore are perhaps still gayer . They ...
Page 72
... boats is accompanied by a deafening noise , exciting the crew and the onlookers alike . The boats are manned by different guilds or clubs or any two crews from the same village with a hereditary or traditional enmity toward each other ...
... boats is accompanied by a deafening noise , exciting the crew and the onlookers alike . The boats are manned by different guilds or clubs or any two crews from the same village with a hereditary or traditional enmity toward each other ...
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... boats which in a great procession are brought either to a temple or to the banks of the river near the town . Some of these boats are simple canoes ; others are large , elaborate ships with a host of deities — the king of hell and his ...
... boats which in a great procession are brought either to a temple or to the banks of the river near the town . Some of these boats are simple canoes ; others are large , elaborate ships with a host of deities — the king of hell and his ...
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the new years festival 3 | 3 |
the dragonboat festival | 69 |
the midautumn festival | 97 |
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ancestors animals asked beautiful became believe boats body Buddha Buddhist calendar centipede ceremony Ch'ü Chinese Chinese astronomy Chinese calendar cock Confucianism Confucianist custom cycle dance dead death door door gods Double Fifth dragon dragon-boat dress drink dynasty emperor ENSIS famous feast fifteenth day fire ghosts girl give goblin goddess gods groups hare hearth heaven INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES INDIANENSIS Jade Emperor killed lantern festival lanterns lion dance lions live lotus marriage MDCCCXX ET VERITAS midautumn festival Ming dynasty month moon moon cakes mountains nese night official palace peasant play popular rain rice river sacrifice SIGILLUM solstice songs soul South China spirits spring festival stone story streets tale Taoist temple tion told tomb took tree tribes Tung UNIVERSITATIS LUX VERITAS MDCCCXX village wife winter Year's day Yüan