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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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