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'THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAFII, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1938.
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The Carp In Chinese
NE of those curious
10 Featured of human Folklore
psychology is the in- in which certain natural objects are
and explicable way
the funeral of the late Mr. Joe F. Henrickson Castro, also for
floral tributes sent and messages regarded with superstitious
of condolence received in her
recent sad bereavement.
The
awe by many people.
Fish that
It is, of course, perfectly Receives Veneration obvious why thunder and
in the East lightning are the terror of
Jay Wilbur's Band Hongkong Telegraph. the savage mind, but why
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A Little bit of Heaven
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1938.
UNSATISFACTORY HOSPITALITY
should other objects, such as if ever exceed four or five cattics in beasts and birds, be includ- weight. ed?
According to the popular Chinese notion, the carp is regarded as the symbol of endurance and fortitude. it is stated that this fish, like the Canadian salmon, Is want to
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Scientists may argue that these phobias are nothing the fresh water stream where it ..Reginald Dixon
more nor less than the sur- was born, even at the risk of in- Brian Lawrence's Orchestra
curring death in its attempts to There has been much talk and Vival of some atavistic urge leap over the rocks on its vallant Brian Lawrence's Orchestra
in man's sub-consciousness. Journey to the spawning ground. It pother about the invitation ex-
Whatever may be the under- is affirmed, too, that this hardy .Sandy Powell
tended to three American crui-lying reason, the peculiar re- endeavour to vauit over a waterfall
of the waters will .joe Paterson sers to visit Singapore for the gard, or rather awesome venera in its efforts to reach its destina-
tion with which members of the tion. .Joe Peterson occasion of the formal opening lowlier creation are held is in it- Such fortitude on the part of such
of the big British naval base. self a matter of remark.
Gracie Fields Gracie Fields
to
denizen
cven
"The
humble creature has called forth the admiration of the eld Chinese But there is still something to be) The phenomenon is not limited cholars, who were want to Boy:
certain division of the "Lei-que t'i lung-moon" said. For some reason which hashance but is universal, and carp has leaped into the dragon's Vera Lynnot yet come to light the impres-most people can cite examples gate," meaning that one has achieved literary advancement; for according Vera Lyn sion was created in London, and of creatures which have a place to the Oriental way of thinking the acquisition of scholarly honours 1s Thus, for example, we can readily as difficult as that of a carp attempt- mention the wolf, the fox, the lem- ing to surmount the obstacle of the ming, and the raven, amongst others; waterfall. in-China-creatures_to_whom there is an attribution of supernatural qualities are even more varied.
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THE Chinese word for carp-lei- authorities at Singapore were
is in itself of felleilous origin, not particularly pleased that the AS is well known, the mythical "profit."
as the syllable may also signify
The significance of such invitation had been sent. How A dragon occupies first place in happy augury is at once apparent to or why was not explained. The popular regard la Chinn, so much those who are acquainted with the
Chinese so (says an authority) that it
people; perhaps no other- advisable for fact is that it was no more than accurate knowledge of the Chinese lein of fast-ta'ol, or the "acquisition an race is more absorbed in the prob-
of this American idea of the venerated saurian if he of wealth." On account 11 courtesy. The
desires to gain a truly sympathetic tortuitous circumstance, the carp Is Government was friendly enough understanding of this remarkable regarded as the
proper, symbol of much in evidence to send these three cruisers on people.**
wealth, and is In addition to the genus draco, during the New Year season when goodwill voyage to Australia Chinese folclore places considerable the popular expression of good will emphasis upon the tiger, the cobra le Kung-hei fant-ts'of"Respectful for the Sydney aequi-centenary and the monkey-all of which are felicitations for your getting rich
(during the New Year)!" celebrations and it is only na-esteemed for peculiar virtues.
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There is also a sort of superstitious
veneration ationhed to certain species epicuristampe the common NE (Cyprinus κατρία, L.), which the Cantonese term fel-yue.
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Let-yue-kwat, lei-yue-kwat Tin-ngan choan tang-yat Lel-yue-l'o, lel-yue-l'o
THE "VERY IDEA"
LOADED DOWN TO THE PLIMSOLL
AN ANCHOR TATTOOED ON HIS CHEST OR A BOTTLE. OF ANCHOR INSIDE HIS TUMMY: IT'S THE SAME TO—
Eddle "Blow Me Down" Kelly'
"OH,
a life on the ocean
waves," he sang with
a Cockney accent.
We have become a tough. old sea salt.
Spinnaker is what did it. The stuff Pop-eye feeds on: It all came about when we went out yachting last Satur day.
Stuce when we have become nautical
over. "Naughty Cal.," they call us.
Gallant, that's 118. Wo even. Kave our berth to 010 of the girls who accompanied us on the trip: Pretty, she W23. One of those doll-faced types.
Just as well the newspapers
It. didn't hear about
We can imagine their screaming headlines
Tang net yat-nin to'o ket koh KELLY GIVES BERTH TO
taal-aan-po
Let-uuc-ko, let-pue-ko
Kam-nin ho-tak-toh Lei-yuc-keng, tei-yue-keng Tang et ch'ah-ch'oh shuk-tak kal-ch'un kom taal koh kaan Tit-ch'ul tak-m-plu
Lei-yue vult, tei-pue puke Chiu que kim maan yuk" The words of this song of fellelta- tion run In English somewhat as follows:
"Live carp, live carp * *
May yon make money from the beginning to the end of this year As the carp opens and closes its
mouth
to your
So may nione) come
hand Carp's head, carp's head May you have ts'z-kwoot cooked
with jerked pork to cat Carp's beard (cirrus), carp's beard May your elders be able to sit at
case and take in their rcuts Carp's checks, carp's checks May you be able to make several piles of money (during the New
Year)
Carp's milt, carp's milt
May you make so much money
that it will reach to the cock-| loft of your house Carp's roe, carp's roc May you bo no prosperous that the commode will be transformed into a flower-vase Carp's eritrails, carp's entrails May the rice in your home be so great that it will reach to the rafters Carp's scales, carp's scales May you be rich, noble and pros-
μετούς
bladder, carp's air
BABY,"
An eighteen-footer, our yacht was. Like a centipede. This da known as the cutter typo, but we think there's a ketch in it some- where. Still, it was a bit of yawl right.
It was fairly rough outside, ard the wind whistled through the stays (we're talking about the ship now, not the girts!)
WHY BRING THAT UP?
"Heave too," roared the captain." We henved, too. Our heart was in our mouth. So was our stomach and other bits and pieces.
We Just #kimmed along the waves. Estimating our speed would have been a knotty problem.. We could see our captain deep in. thwart.
The chief mate was splicing his mala brace, which had broken at the part that joins the buttons on the back of the panta
The crew were dolag a spot of tuffing with the girl passengers on the quarter deck, where no quar-- ter was asked or given.
We could see it was up to us to bring our ship home.
We let go the painter (my, but she was an artiste, though1) and took a clove hitch in the starboard guff sail. Gently pushing In the fore-sall we let out the mizzen and accelerated.
TOO MUCH STARBOARD-LIGHT
Carp's air bladder
We had a bit of trouble with the May your children when they traffic cops on Waglan because they begin school be so clever that wouldn't change the red light to they will not have to endure the green. There was a bit of an ebb discomfort of having their heads on at the time, but we pumped up cuffed by their teacher
Carp's liver, carp's liver
May you make so much money
that it will fill a ts'cam‡ Carp's teeth, carp's teeth
the halyards. We had to take in a couple of reefs on the way from Waglan to Lyemoon, and we'll have something to say to the
naval Mey your sons and grandsons be authorities about their charts whee
rich, noble and prosperous Carp's bones, carp's bones
slay you ba the first in earning
money
we see Lt. Commander Helbert again.
According to the bearings We Carp's stomacht, carp's stomach Itook, our position by dead reckon- I hope that you will be able to gesing at 11 pm was at the third Lierat uto daughters-in-law table from the niste in the fong- during the course of this year kong Hotel. Carp's fat, carp's fat
May it, Le. your wealth be even or were we in the Hongkong hotel? Eight bells! Were we yachting
more abundant
Carp's neck, carp's neck
very
I hope that you from the
beginning will have your cocoons spun bigger than hen's caps. So much so that even a hammer
will not dent them
The carp wiggles, the carp wiggles May you have fish to eat with your morning rice and meat with your evening repast"
tural that they should have
NE of the singulor customs as- called at Singapore. It so hap-
sociated with this season is the purchasing of a carp for use in the pened that the opening of the
It is not dimcult to comprehend various ceremonies welcoming the big docks there was fixed for the reasons why this denizen of the New Year. Some people in long- waters is no highly esteemed, as it kong make it point, of buying carp February 14, the time the
Is a fish
or three Inches in possessing exceptional minnows (two
in their American warships would be tenacity of life and is likewise pre- length) which they keep
sumed to be capable of Uving to a homes for a month or so, and then passing on their homeward great age, several apparently well berate in the harbour on the second
authenticated
re- day of the instances being
first moon. There is. cruise. What
natural
ported of it arriving at an age likewise, a peculiar observance al the than that, in politeness, they considerably in excess of the greatest this time of carrying through
age attained by man.
streets a flat earthenware dish con- Ishould be made to feel they were Specimens are sometimes of large taining a live carp.
size one to three feet in length, This
not now practice, whilst not encroaching on the naval and weighing as much as twenty common in the Colony, is often seen base's hospitality and embar- cattles, although those generally met in country districts, especially In
with in the native markets scarcely Shun-tak, rassing the authorities by their
It is sold to be of particularly felicitous origin, for the person who t The taz-kwoo is a kind| presence there? And now, all
of Chinese vegetable, very. this talk, without the man-of-war is prying into these carries the bowl with its auspicious
Icast
omen stops before each door, and quite
starchy in substance. possibly chants the following rhymed ditty
When foundation, has created the im- secrets; and pression that the Americans are might breed ill-will. There is in the hope that the listeners will not entirely welcome. It is a nothing more distressing, age, generous in the bestowal of lei pity; for no amount of denials gravating indeed, than misplaced or corrections will eradicate en-suspicion or an accusation un- tirely the suspicion that some deserved. Not that British na- one, at least, may have misgiv-val people indulge in it. But ings about the diplomacy or there are imaginative folk in [expediency of this invitation. every fortified area who
spies behind every beard and
see
It is time for the sinking of plots behind each whispered con- ok animosities and suspicions-versation. Presumably they and there is no intention to sug- are to blame for all this non- gest that animosity or suspicion sense out of Singapore. T exists among British people
Now that tho French have! where the United States is con- been invited to the Singapore cerned. Quite the contrary ceremony it is safe to wager that {Rivalry, perhaps. But that is the circumstance will give rise healthful. It is so futile to pre- to the suspicion, if not the tend that there are secrets at charge that the three great Singapore which any visiting democracies are giving a de ahip might discover to the demonstration of their solidarity, triment of the defences; and it friendship and co-operation. As Is so senseless to nourish the a matter of fact it is high time Auspicion that every foreign they did.
shi or "gratuity money" for the
occasion:
"Shaang-lei, shanng-tel • • Nin-t'au chaan to nin-mel Lei-yue ngap-ngap-hau Kam-ngan to nei shau Lel-yue-t'au, iel-vue-l'au Ta'z-kwoo chue laap-ngaau Lei-que-zo, lei-yue-so Pank-foo tsch-lok ko ahati-tio Lei-yue-soi, lel-yue-nai Yat-nin-chaan kel tus Lel-yue-wok, lel-yue-wok Trin-ngan tik moon kok Let-que-ch'un, ici-que-ch'un Shi-t'oap pin fa-trun Lei-yuc-ch'anno, lei-que-ch'cung Kuk-mal ting to leung Lei-yue-lun, let-yue-lun Foo-kwal yau hing-lung Lei-yue-pok, lel-true-p'ok
taal-nut hol-hok M-shat pel sin-shdang pok Let-pue-taam, let-que-toam Txin-nean clinan laat-ta'aam Loi-vue-nga, lei-qua-nga' Tiz-zuen skeung shing foo-kuni
.wing-tod.....
Nei
This is, a play upon the words: shaang-lei, "live carp: shaang-lci, "may all your of- forts during the New Year | produce profit !"
Now we've gone and got ourselves muddled up.
It's this hangover that's done it: And as they say on the Peak: "The same to you, with snobs on?"
cooked with cured pork it forms according to Chinese notions a most tasty dish, The scientific name of this vegetable is Caladium escula
tiin.
# This is a kind of recep tacle shaped somewhat liko a dust-pan and used for the ac. cumulation of rubbish, etc.
-T. Paul Gregory
BULLS AND INNERS
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From the Office Butts
We notice that the price of The gentleman who saw two-
naturally terrior-stricken. ᄆ
frogs has increased two-fold.wild dogs on the By leaps and bounds.
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The Superintendent of Mails will in future be known as the Controller of Posts. He hant quite a nice one himself.
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We are authorised to contra- [dict the rumour that N.A.A.F.I. standa for Never Ask A Fellow Inside.
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The cold snap along the Chat ham Road was most in tents.
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It must be hard on a society- gossip-writer not to be able to describe her own "get up."