. Chess and playing cards. No. 169837, Prom Korean (James. ings are conducted by means of eighty pieces of paper, each having one of the eighty characters written niton it. Twenty characters aredrawn at random at each drawing, and the players win in proportionto the number they The name of the lottery, pdk foj/t. WhitePigeon, is probably a slang phrase for pdk hop. meaning one hundredunited, a name which is quite intelligible in the light of the Koreanmoney-lending clubs. 1 169327, Gift of Stewart Culin. 2 Stewart Culin, for detailed account see The Gambling G
. Chess and playing cards. No. 169837, Prom Korean (James. ings are conducted by means of eighty pieces of paper, each having one of the eighty characters written niton it. Twenty characters aredrawn at random at each drawing, and the players win in proportionto the number they The name of the lottery, pdk foj/t. WhitePigeon, is probably a slang phrase for pdk hop. meaning one hundredunited, a name which is quite intelligible in the light of the Koreanmoney-lending clubs. 1 169327, Gift of Stewart Culin. 2 Stewart Culin, for detailed account see The Gambling Gamea of the I binese in America, Philadelphia, 1891. 90-1 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 73. Is/ Word-Blossoming. A lottery. Canton, China, andChinese in the United States. Chart and lottery similar to the preceding. The lots are the names of thirty-six persons, and appear upon the chart (fig. L14) arranged in ninecategories: 5. i* Oj n A A. & is Wft £,^ 09 4- 3L g? pP *4 mi* ) »Xi lipfa is 7L. /2s. 4r % Z- Jx £ \ 7C, 7c- 1 IS. * a* 7T* 3k C3 At 99|<^ 1 ^ ^ 7L t Alt- as « ^&) 4K. ^if tL 0 0-/ 5fe I v9 CHART FOR WORD-BLOSSOMING LOTTERY (tsz fti fb). Impression. 8 by 9 inches. China, and Chinese in United States. Cat. No. 169328, From Korean Games. 1. The four Chong 2. The seven successful merchants. 3. The four Buddhist priests. 4. The five beggars. 5. The five generals. 6. The fortr ladies. 7. The four destined to good The nun. !». The t*\ Taoist priests. \... 109328, l . Gift of Stewart name given to those who take the highest degree at the examinations for the llaiili CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 905 One name is selected as the winning one before cadi drawing, andthe players who guess it receive thirty times the amount of their each of the proper names on the chart are the names of vari-ous animals, common occupations, of noted characters in the popularromances and histories, and of miscell
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