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NOTES TO TABLE 2

A = yearly cycle claimed

B = celebration period (one-day, three-day, five-day), (refers only to main rituals started from the ritual “Qi Tan” [Opening of the Jiao) and ended with the "Da You" [Great Offering])

C = predominant occupation of the community

== market town

D = spority ethnic groups:

E

P → Punti Cantonese

H

T = Takka

:. = Tanka

=Territorial type:

บ = village

VC = village cluster

local alliance

1: = Descent type:

S = single-lineage

sc = single-lineage dominated

H = single-lineage village, multi-lineage community

m = multi-surname in one community

year celebrated

--

Sources: Either seen by myself

JE = from beginning to end,

e = only partially.

recorded in other scholars' work [0], or provided by villages or Taoist priests

[T].

OI

02

——

03 = Chan, "Jiu festival** see note 37

Tanaka, Village Festival, 99, 816

Note:

*1 In fact, it is held every ninth year, as the year of celebration is counted into both the outgoing and incoming decade.

*2 Photos taken on 1989.3.10. A poster was written Cheung Lung walled-village of Ping Kong Tsuen village, ten years' once Taiping Qing Jiao". The notice recorded the Year Mu Wa (1988).

*3 This alliance include the following fishing villages in the northeastern part of Hong Kong: Tap Mun, Kau Lau Wan, Sham Wan, Wong Wan, Kat O, Sam Mun Tsai. See Tanaka, Village Festival, 99, 816.

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