. Lion and dragon in northern China. 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 The family eat little round cakes ofglutinous rice which, being supposed to repr
. Lion and dragon in northern China. 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 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 doors of Roman houses were regarded as being under the specialprotection of the household FIRST-FULL-MOON STILT-WALKERS (see p. 183).
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