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CHINESE
FORTUNE
TELLERS
By
T. PAUL GREGORY
THE professed ability of a few to tell the fortunes of the many has always been a subject of the widest appeal. Those adepts in the so-called art of divination have therefore never been lacking in popular favour; for prescience of the future has ever been one of mankind's strongest yearnings. Consequently, every
race has developed its own distinctive soothsayers, credited with the requisito skill for delving into the occult, and thrusting into the sunlight of welcome clarity all that agitates the mortal mind in secret. As is to be expected, the Chinese as the premier people of the Orient, have not been far behind other nations in their researches into the
produced no famous personalities comparable with such con- summate mystics as the Pythonesses of Delphi, or even the Witch of Endor, yet their undoubted mastery of the black art has cap- tivated the popular imagination for unnumbered generations.
Hongkong Hotel forbidden fields of stygian lore. Although, they have apparently
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SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1938.
HONGKONG SLUMS
of
a
Stums, the outcome surplus population and an ap pallingly low economic level, still constitute the major social { problem of Hongkong. The attendant evils, of course, are squalor, mental and physical Yet the depravity, and disense, matter has probably received less effective attenion than many
of China's long history that as for
In fact, it is related in the annals Middle-Aged Prophets back as 2000 BC. an ancient worthy The majority of the Chinese adepts by name of Ful Hsi through the study of the shell of the common tor. In the seallsayer's art in the Colony are middle-aged men who combine toise evolved a a system of prognosti- the practice of divination with the cation so comprehensive in its scope slightly more lucrative one of letter- that it is still in common use amongst writing. Indeed, it Is as amanuenses Chinese diviners at the present day, to the host of Hongkong's illiterate The fundamentals of the system Chinese amahs that they are enabled discovered by this semi-mythical to reach an extensive clientele; for personage are fully covered In the naturally enough, If a putren hns
Changes, of ges," heard tidings of exceptionally good
Yi-king, or "Book
yours
GRIN AND BEAR IT
Cap, 1926 by United Pentury Syndicate, The
By Lichty
63
"Thank heaven we live in a country where there ain't no dictators.”
MR. PEPYS in
HONGKONG
ing much restored in health, sibelt ingeniously from the high winds ny 30th. This day I doe awake feel- excellently contrived and sheltered which incidentally is one of the most joss from one expert, he or she is ancient books of China. If It is actu- bound to advertise 1 by word of is as hot as ever. To my office doth suffer. Here I find a many ally the product of Fuh Hsi's re- mouth, and this alone is sufficient to belmes and very busy there and after plants that I would faln grow but searches, it must be nearly 4,000 send scores to the stall or kerb-side doe bid to share my nuncheon a cannot and doe believe nee hath old, and is in more respects than of our professional in the ardent hope gentleman who was at Blundell's, fertilized his soll better than I. one a most remarkable human docu- that what he foretells for them may though several years after the date And I am much charmed with the ment. Compilations fron it form
orm be as equally auspicious.
of my leaving. And wee have much view from his caseients when after- the bulk of reference works resorted The usual means of telling fortunes pleasant talk of the school and of wards wee doe sit and drink a sack
T's'lm
the folk at Tiverion of whom doc or "divining sticks.
pussett together. Thence home and. by 10 by Chinese fortune tellers, who is quote glibly from its pages, and the These consists of sixty-four slender
know a a many. But when wee did dined with my he-child, the wenches
them systern itself is based on what is strips of bamboo, appropriately num-
up it seems there Bre a being gone to the Picture House. known as the Paat-kun or "Eight bered to correspond with sentences Fren
great number of Blundell's men In 2nd-Last night being awakened. Trigrams"
China and I am minded to seeks to at about three of the clock by distant a series of sixty-four in the Ta't-po ut "oracle book,"
doc lined figures
goc out upon the or hexagrams, based on the precepts of the above-arrange a dinner, when the weather thunder,
the These
we are to believe the dieta mentioned Yi-king or
At four of the clock to leads and see away over of bee cooler.
Government House, of the Chinese fortune teller "repre- Changes." In practice, the trim are for His Excellency's team against the have no rain here. So, after looking where I doc play storm in the distance but wee dee sent the principles of life and growth placed in a bamboo receptacle and Medicals, but they are too hard for about mee to see if there bee the by division of substance," which are then shaken until two fall out. The alleged to have evolved singularly numbers of these are carefully noted, enough from an extra-mundane force by the fortune teller who looks up called the T'asi-kik or "Great in his books, the sentences which Monad." Each of the trigrams con- correspond to the numbers on
on the with and the favourable or In other
favourable
slx
"Book
of its companion social problems. stats of a three-lined gure of the sticks, character of the answer is until eleven of the clock; and so to
03
un-
Those who practice this sort <f
divination are noteworthy on account generally chanted as a sort of pres vocative Interlude to business and
of their special trade call which is
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us, and win by some fifteen shots. burglars, who did climb into Mr. R. After did drink & glasse of strong Mackay's house, in my policies, to waters and so home in Sir R. bed again. But I did lock the grille Harpenden's motor coach. Dined upon the door, for though I doubt with my children and after reading not I have not many valuables 1 Efforts, hitherto, to find a solu- following form: A whole line determined therefrom. In this type.
would fain not have broken. Tho' Lord! it words, they consist of u tion,
have been
house #t 1st July-This day is holyday Mr.
did break MacLay's somewhat and a broken one, the former of of divination, questions upon all sorts decreed, as I am told, so that the one'e, not even tho dorga's unu!! at theoretical, and interesting which is stated to represent the of subjects are asked and the answers Banque may have undisturbed leisure
Young or "Male Principle," and the
readily given; therefore on this
the end. Working at my office until mainly from the academic view-tatter the Yam or
"Feraaie
the Peake in Mr. Principle."
eccount it is largely popular with the
to reckon up our overdrafts and the noon and then up point. However,
the The two principles either singly or Chinese masses who for a sum not with
Interest thereon. But for mee there A. Jay's car and looking about in in combination are alleged
ere 1 to explain exceeding five or
am somewhat ten cents
is no leisure as I must needs to my my garden where may
health of publication to-day of a report the whole riddle of human existence, ascertain the
office there being work to be done. in doubt of the "Joss" of practically
peach- which However I do on a pair and the
Реб Mistress
did Yi-king and similar books everything.
short tree by a group of social workers contain various statements said to
amall clothes and stockings
that
I give mec, for being six feet in height
large who sponsored what they call thes
elucidate them. Actually, however,
day. at eleven of the clock to the Took luncheon with my may delude myself I am upon holy-it is somewhat
children. explanations Bre couched in "Social Settlements," the subject such difficult phraseology that they
Gloucester with Mr. Franklin where her walk around
This evening I doe visit the sick and are well nigh incomprehensible to
Mount we cat a chicken sandwich and appears to have been tackled the laity, and the book itself has long
Kellett drink after
see the site where La a glasse of lemon squash, which is But Lord! to from an original and practical since been relegated to the domain of
mighty palatable but later it did sit Hacienda once stood makes me sad. the occult, and has become peculiarly
to 1915 back to
when I angle. This group
Il upon my stomach and I fear it for it takes mer came to enough the "Book" par excellence of
is a beverage I may not yet enjoy. ald dge there, a
lodge
a space, and of our every kerb-side Chinese fortune grips with the problem, not by
kwai-pan-Wee talked of much and then back now. Drank a glasse of wine with
Mess on
Mr. North and only
I be alive teller.
to our offices. Reading in the news debating it from arm-chairs, but
sheetes I am at a stonde to find that pretty Lady but her Lord being by administering a number of
the Jews doc complain bitterly for from home I staid not long. "Know your fortune by the divin- | that the military doe hang a a Jewish 3rd (Lord's Day)-Up betimes and Chinese tenements in order to
ing sticks
murderer, they contending a I mighty pleased to find that there is discover precisely what the
suppose, that only Arabs should be heavy rain falling. After I had hanged for the killing of Jews. And written to my wife, poor wretch, who lower class Chinese can afford to
though I discommend the methods now it seems travels about paying pay for rent, and what it is
used in Germany, I cannot but think some visites, I do set my Chamber in that the parties in Palestine might and our Verandah, which now look order, and after that the Living Room possible to provide him with for
boe bee more easily reconciled were mooted to hand over the mandate and did take nuncheon in my Cham- more seemly. Read for some space that rental.
to that Power. But Lord!
a most
In their findings, the sponsors
Part of this goes to meet the profit required by the owners of the property, but even with this eliminated, experience had shown that it would require a per cents a month should any con- capita subsidy of probably 50
cern, not seeking a profit em-| bark on a similiar scheme.
There are other
runs thus:
"Ts'im-kwa sucn-meng K'au-tr'ai-kwa
Tsz-shan, ka-chaak,
Icwa
Manu-mung-kwa
Lau-nin-Icwa
(All kinds)-Looking for wealth, Personal, family, and friends, Facts regarding employment And the happenings of present year."
Horoscope Readers
the
to whom-
The type of fortune teller most ever it went Britain would be mighty her farly, while reading in frequently met with in such crowded ivell rid or it. To the Clubbe for a excellent book. At about five I do frankly admit a certain degree absorbing facts revealed by the centres is, however, the T'ai-seung At six of the clock I doe walk to out with Mistress Caldbecks by motor equally districts as Hollywood Road and other space and so home to my nuncheon. pay a call at Magazine Gap and so of disappointment and fallure.report. One is that the present sin-shaang or
tell able What they seem to have demons- | type of Chinese tenements built Presses to be siognomist" who Mr. F. Franklin's house at High West coach to Deep Water Bay where we trated is that the lower class of are utterly impracticable for the Present and future by the one's past, where I find his garden to beo most three, hounds. Drank a possett and
intently for a few
Chinese carns an income below
that necessary to enable him to enjoy healthy, decent accommo. dation. In the administration of the Wai Ching Strect flats, the group not only worked out a "basic rent" level which, if paid in full, would still require
ccss of peering
a few mo-
knuck
find her Lord and Mr. Tom with the
so back to the house but Lord! the rain comes down like a-sheete and
more.
simple pro- purpose of conversion. into ments into one's countenance. An- cubicles. Tho Wal Ching Street other figure, too, is the peripatetie of grains of rice, The card in ceases not and they dog entreat me tenements are typical of those worthy, who vaunts an ability to cast question is examined and the sentence mighty kind, insisting I shall dine
clothed in existing in all of the Colony's cry may be sometimes heard in the
horoscopes and read the palm. His printed thereon (usually a quotation there, though I am but
from the Book of Changes) is inter- short small-clothes and an old coat. preted for the customer's benefit,
So to dinner and there are no sanitary arrange- slum areas. Lighting is bad, streets:
so merry as never It is interesting to note how these "T'al saam-shal shue!
birds are trained. According to most ments, and it is impossible to
Tuk shu-cheung!
4th.To my office where in the informants, the Java
newes shecies I doe learn that Ger- sparrow (which arrange cubicles to make them
"(Let me) east your horoscopes Incidentally capable of becoming many doth undertake to pay Aus- through three generations! both financially and hygienically
qulte tame) is caught when very tria's debts, which, though but a just (Let me) read your palm!" effective. These are important
young. The trainer accustoms it to thing, is pleasant to hear. My points, and they are given special who naturally enough do not place grains of cereal
There are, of course, many Chinese searching for its food by concealing papers being ordered I do on my amongst fortune garments of ceremony and so to the a certain amount of subsidy, but prominence in the report. This too much credence in the assertions telling cards, and the bird is taught American Club in the Banque build- found it necessary in some cases experience, in fact, led the of those fortune tellers who depend to hunt for them. Eventually, ting. But Lord to think that a man
пропа glib tongue and to accept even below that rental. sponsors to suggest that if knowledge of human psychology in up
keen acquires the
of picking who doth design. many office rooms cards by Its beak,
and in a building should allow but two This, apparently, was simply Government adopted a scheme order to insure their daily harvest of when it is able to do this, it is dwarf elevators upon the north face because the tenants, although in tenements of a special design methods.
to eliminate the Colony's slums, pennies, and will consequently go to deemed sufficiently able to eld its of the building! So there is much others who use more spectacular master in earning a living. In fact, congestion and wee arrivo somowlint employment, did not Carn
One of these Is the all that one has to do, is to point to Inte. Most excellent speeches and sufficient to enable them to pay should be built. This "special employment of woh-kule or Java a certain card in an unobtrusive way, afterwards I doe converse with many
Normally, then, these design" would allow for the uparrows" as aids to the art of and the keen-sighted sparrow has of my friends. I did search for
divination, and is the most interesting caught the point, and proceeds to people would be forced to accept provisions already mentioned In inferior accommodation at ren- The suggestions made in the immense patience required in train-the customary tribute of rice (which the 4th July, 1930, though they tell many respects on account of the pick it out, receiving for an old friend Mr. T. Beigh and presently find him where I did leave him upon tals within their means to allow report call for a fairly heavy ing the feathered assistants in thela never refused).
me he had moved between the dates. In them a sufficient surplus for the capital outlay, and a subsequent task of selecting the cards. This conclusion, one might mention But to my greatest possible sorrow other necessities of life.
designated in the another tax-payer.tonese
encountered in Chinese was Mistress Louisa The main effect of the report These two factors alone are laam-kwa
thero; but or "the Java.
and may be said without hear shice is out of Town. This even- seems to be not so much that probably sufficient
sparrate temples, to make tonguing" the fortune teller's
exaggeration to be the most popular in did play at Bridge at the Peake property owners are extorting Government shy of a scheme flourishes
especially in
Wanchal
and of all forms of divination
amongst
zet Cluble where after a poor start I rson who de- Hollywood Rond. A A person huge profits from the working | such ne Social Settlemente. siren to ascertain the will of Heaven, casting of
Chinese. This is
have
ve fair, the
fore- doo
fortune. And it the
by classes, but that there is a fan- Nevertheless, taking the longer approaches the diviner
marvellous to see how popular these und laying of the koau-pool or
Monday bridge nights are become, tastic exploitation of labour by view, if Government should down the necessary fee (two or three These cousist of two pieces of
5th. This morning I wake to find employers. Because their ten- satisfy itsolf that a scheme, coppuyer will then open his sage and shape, and in uso permitted to fall God, and though I get pretty wet The I boo or wood, semi-ellipsoidal in heavy downpour, prolso bee to Boothsayer ants literally cannot afford to although involving these charges, permit one of his sparrows to come from a height upon the floor. If they walking to the Tramme I care ne wit pay more for their accommodal would liquidato Hongkong's forth. The bird with a wise not of fall with their similar surface down- for it. Therein I find two young tion, the sponsors of Social slums, It appears to be a its tiny, head, proceeds to a pack of ward, it is regarded as an unfavour wenches bound for school and they Settlements have to subsidiae reasonable and practical solution cards, and apparently pulls out one able omen, but if it is otherwise, the wet already so I dos take them into the families to the extent of one to a tremendous problem at random with his beak. This it "joss" is considered to be favourable my motor hackney to drive to the brings to his master, and is rewarded and there is consequently goneral | French Convent. But Lord the dollar per head per month. S.A.G.
for his exertion by 'n gift of a couple – rojoleing.
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Woll-lent is generally fortune telling which | Mr. A. Joy did esclipe my view, nor
the