Shans at home . aten raw,minced, and mixed with boiled rice and spices. Meatand rice are never cooked together, and cooked meatis never served in the same dish with rice. Besidesthe ordinary everyday cooking, women make manykinds of pickles. Fruit is often eaten between is always eaten with sour fruits, much improv-ing their flavour. Pineapples, though skinned, arenever sliced; Shans prefer to eat the fruit uncut, asin this way they do not lose the juice. Before the wet season sets in, besides mending theroofs of their own houses, the men of each villagejoin together to repair the t
Shans at home . aten raw,minced, and mixed with boiled rice and spices. Meatand rice are never cooked together, and cooked meatis never served in the same dish with rice. Besidesthe ordinary everyday cooking, women make manykinds of pickles. Fruit is often eaten between is always eaten with sour fruits, much improv-ing their flavour. Pineapples, though skinned, arenever sliced; Shans prefer to eat the fruit uncut, asin this way they do not lose the juice. Before the wet season sets in, besides mending theroofs of their own houses, the men of each villagejoin together to repair the thatch of the zayats, andclean the tiled roofs of the monastery. Foi thiswork they receive no payment, and appear to do itVi^ith pleasure. It has been said that work for themonasteries is compulsory. Public opinion wouldcertainly be against any man. who refused to assist,but I have always found that they enjoy doing any-thing that may be required for the monastery. Men(and sometimes women) from every house in the. FESTIVALS 121 village help in the work; if they do it unwillinglythey certainly show no signs of discontent. There are many religious festivals. In March boysgo through the villages, with drums and gongs, visit-ing the houses of their friends, and making a greatnoise. Sometimes this amusement is kept up all night,and householders to get rid of them give them moneyor sweetmeats. Towards the end of the Shan year, inNovember, young men of about sixteen years of agevisit the surrounding villages, to pour water on thehands, and sometimes on the feet, of the elders. Atthe same time they ask pardon for any sins ofomission or commission of which they may havebeen guilty during the past year. This apology isonly offered to middle-aged or old people. The water-feast at the beginning of April is a timeof great fun for young folk, who are then in the villagestreets from morning till night, throwing water at eachother. Even the more serious members of the com-munity do not escape t
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