. Ping-Kua; a girl of Cathay . ke youlook up or speak. Do neither. They will sayyou are bad tempered and very homely, and theywill pull your clothes and throw rice over youand down your neck, but remember, neitherlaugh, cry, get angry, speak, nor look up. It willbe over at last, and the women will come, take offthe wedding garment and dress you as a daughter-in-law. They will pull out the hair on your tem-ples by the roots, making your forehead square,to show that you are a married woman, and dressyour hair in the married woman style, and youwill be settled for life. As evening approached, the
. Ping-Kua; a girl of Cathay . ke youlook up or speak. Do neither. They will sayyou are bad tempered and very homely, and theywill pull your clothes and throw rice over youand down your neck, but remember, neitherlaugh, cry, get angry, speak, nor look up. It willbe over at last, and the women will come, take offthe wedding garment and dress you as a daughter-in-law. They will pull out the hair on your tem-ples by the roots, making your forehead square,to show that you are a married woman, and dressyour hair in the married woman style, and youwill be settled for life. As evening approached, the women — mothersof sons — who had been chosen to dress the bride,took Ping-Kua in hand. They powdered her faceand neck till they were white like an idoFs,touched her lips with red, and brushed a hint ofred on her cheeks. Then her heavy black hairwas done up on her head for the first time andstuck through with ornamental hairpins thatcame out over her ears. Red artificial flowersfollowed. The bandages were drawn a little 26.
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