. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . : Tsok ye yat tau mo shui,Kam chiu imin cluin fung. Last night all in a fog or flurry,This morning full of happiness. Another of their strange customs,but quite a good one, is that ofsweeping their houses from top tobottom before the dawn of New7Years morn. An amusing supersti-tion in connection with this is in thehiding away of all brooms as soon asthe sweeping is over. It would be adifficult matter to find a single broomin Chinatown on the first day of theyear. A Chinaman would muchrather meet Yim Lau Wong, orhis
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . : Tsok ye yat tau mo shui,Kam chiu imin cluin fung. Last night all in a fog or flurry,This morning full of happiness. Another of their strange customs,but quite a good one, is that ofsweeping their houses from top tobottom before the dawn of New7Years morn. An amusing supersti-tion in connection with this is in thehiding away of all brooms as soon asthe sweeping is over. It would be adifficult matter to find a single broomin Chinatown on the first day of theyear. A Chinaman would muchrather meet Yim Lau Wong, orhis satanic majesty, than an inno-cent broom on New Years have an idea that brooms usedon such a day would sweep all their good luck away. This is,however, only true of those Chinesewho have not been brought underthe enlightenment of the Chinese, as a rule, arefree from these fetters of dark super-stition. New Years eve is celebrated by afeast known as the tuen nin feast,or the feast of the winding up ofthe old year, and the day after Newr »it r 1. v A Chinese Merchant. Years day they have another feastknown as the hoi nin feast, or thefeast of the opening of the New Years day they take agreat delight in indulging in theeating of an abundance of oystersand mussels. It might be wonderedwhy they should choose such as theirfavorites for a NewT- Years dinner,but the mystery is solved when weare told that the name of the former,ho shee, sounds exceedingly likethe words prosperous market, andthey regard the latter as ominous of 270 THE EXIT OF THE ROYAL GOVERNOR. good luck, also from the fact thatthey are bi-valves, and consequentlywould indicate a compound inter-est or double profit to all theirconsumers in their business adven-tures. On New Years eve the Chinesemother, in her parental love commonto all mothers in the world, sits up tothe small hours of the morning toprepare her presents for her boys,whom she fondly hopes would growup to be faithfu
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