China : a history of the laws, manners and customs of the people . ellationKong-Sing is said to be unlucky. This constellation consists ofseven stars placed so as to mark tlje outline of a long-taileddragon with a general named Nghon on his back. To purchaselands or rank, or give daughters in marriage, or celebrate thefuneral obsequies of parents on this day, will certainly entailevil consequences. The day of the month wliich is ruled by Tai-Sing is very un-lucky. This constellation consists of six stars, which mark theoutline of a camel, near which stands a general named Ka-Fuh. To enter upon
China : a history of the laws, manners and customs of the people . ellationKong-Sing is said to be unlucky. This constellation consists ofseven stars placed so as to mark tlje outline of a long-taileddragon with a general named Nghon on his back. To purchaselands or rank, or give daughters in marriage, or celebrate thefuneral obsequies of parents on this day, will certainly entailevil consequences. The day of the month wliich is ruled by Tai-Sing is very un-lucky. This constellation consists of six stars, which mark theoutline of a camel, near which stands a general named Ka-Fuh. To enter upon commercial transactions, or to commenceto plough fields, or to begin to delve gardens on this day, is tobe unlucky in business, or to reap bad crops. If children burytheir parents on this day, a member of the family will, erelong, commit suicide; if shipbuilders lay the keels of ships, ormerchants permit their ships to go to sea, shipwreck willfollow; and the brides of men who marry on this day, will,before many months have elapsed, prove unfaithful. Similarly,. COMETS AND ECLIPSES. 15 each of the other days of the hmar mouth is ruled by a con-stellation, and each constellation has its own special under the stars is beyond the reach of their Iiyper-physical control. Events in social and official life, commei-ce,shipbuilding, silk-culture, cattle-rearing, fuel-gathering, digging,draining, building, laying foundation stones, literary competi-tion, ploughing, travelling—all are witliin the scope of theiraction. The appearance of comets, eclipses of the sun or moon, earth-quakes, and all other unfrequent and extraordinary occurrences,exercises, in the estimation of the Chinese, a good or bad in-fluence on empires and kingdoms, on emperors and kings, andeven on ordinary individuals. During an eclipse of the sun ormoon, the people, as I have stated in a previous chapter, go tothe tops of their houses, and beat gongs and tom-toms to frightenaway the heaven
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