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Saturday, October 22, 1930.
A
Strange Chinese Beliefs
BY T. PAUL GREGORY
TH
About Hades
Toh-wong, the Ruler of Hades himself. Fa-kung, the husband is assisted in his work of caring for the garden of the world's future citizens by twelve youths, whom the Chinese designate na Fa-tung-tsz, or "Flower Boys," while Fa-p'oh has for her helpers the same number of falries known us
·Fa-naal-ngunu,
"Flower Wet
专
Nurses, and on equal number of hold their appointments from Yim- Dry Nurses."
feminine deity. There is likewise n
THE belief that there
In mundane affairs, Fa-p'oh is also is a region of dark- regarded my the Goddess of Child- ness inhabited by the brand in every house where there are young children, there is a shrine
to her. Usually this si spirits of the dead was a erected
tocated under the foot of the bed in common notion among most the parent's room, and consists of n nations of antiquity. Thus tablet inscribed with the name of this the ancient Greek mytholo-sort of lamp found here, also, but gists spoke of the existence unlike most similar objects it in Hades a mysterious entirely home-made, constructed out region situate not in the rolled into cylindrical shape and bowels of the earth, but on gummed together, five or six pieces to one lamp. Although never lighted, the under side of the limits me old Janip Is replaced ench of the known world-bound- year by 1 new. one, in token
that the favour and protecting care ed by an awful river, and of the goddess are confided in from ruled over by Pluto and his year to year. She is, however, more beautiful Queen, Proser-
of
pina.
of lengths of red and yellow paper,
than the goddess of childbirth, but also the fairy godmother of children; for the goddess personally or through her assistants, acts as The Chincau have a similar
wardian to every child from birth notion, and singularly enough, until it attains its majority, In the fundamental ideas of the prayers addressed to her, she lo ancients of the Occident seem to generally referred to as Ch'on-nei be incorporated in their con-fa-p'oh Tang 100-yan "Our Lady ception of the nether world. In Tang, the Godless of the Foot of the Bed." Her husband, Fa-kung is also fact, with perhaps the sole ex- tnvariably regarded as a deity of ception of the absence of a the bed chamber, and the Canton- counterpart for the wife of ese preter to designate him as Ch'onp-
mortal
A Century Old Briar Root Campaign, with headquarters at force their own distinctive conception
Perfect Cleaning Cool and Dry Smoke
No contact between Tobacco and moisture
the Bed."
CHILD PROTECTOR
GRIN AND BEAR IT
EUMPS
ANALIZED LIL
PALMS
READ
PRICE LIST
ILUMO
LUMPS.S0
FOR THE NGASE
Style Tatare trebate. Ins
By Lichty
The first bump Indicates you are kind, the second says you have a sense of humour, and the big one indicates an unhappy home life!"
MR. PEPYS in
HONGKONG
6th, October-This day very hall bronchitis, though the lungs bee
to to
days in It is, however, as the protector of atter the storm and indeed it la not clear and
་
1WD
the
I did dino my
YOUTH SPEAKS OUT Pluto, the Chinese Hades, is in fau fa-kung Lei Sz-pack, "Let Sz- most respects strikingly similar, paak, the Flower God of the Head of While their elders are strug. The more one compares these gling with very mixed success two mythologies, one is convine- ed that the idea of Hades and an to find a way through the underworld in general, is a sort dangers and difficulties of the of universal heritage, and barr- children that the Goddess Fa-p'ch is seasonable in October. I doe feel bed, when the thermometer roads of world situation, it is cheering to ing, of course, the inevitable dis- best known; for like the Irish who mighty unwell and doe cat a bite in in the shade this being mid-October;
have a beautiful myth that when an my office and, after ordering my and Lord! how I doo curso tinctions due to racial and reli- infant smiles while asleep, it is be-papers, home where I doe cat no weather and my allment. realise that large numbers of
15th-Somewhat recovered, but not gious differences, practically cause angels are whispering in its dinner but get mee to bed.
well and again a hot day. News of a young men and women, who identical.
car, the Chinese aver with equal
7th-Somewhat restored in my serious invasion of Kwangtung from sincerity that such walles are duc took no part in the Last War,
TANGIBLE PURGATORY
to Fa-p'oh who is talking to it in health, to my office and later comes Bias Bay and, as it seems, no resist
the Baron with my picture of a ance. Watched cricket and later did the land of dreams.. are... becoming increasingly
chestnut coll which hee hath restor- dine with Mistress, Monk and her The Chinese, however, owing to
These happy smiles are, moreover, ed to a marvel. And hee tells met, daughter, and so home early to bed. aware of the responsibility that the influence of Buddhistic teaching,
masses of the as I had Heard from my Mother, that have created an even more highly regarded by the
10th-Lord's Day and at work in heart le will fall upon their shoulders if imaginative conception of the nether Chinese people as a sure and cer- the picture bee but n sketch, dashed the garden but Lord! my
world than even Homer in the im- tain sign that the father will become off in it may bee half an hour or broke with the damage the storm they accept the advent of
from the like Odyssey; for
and then the ferre heat hath done.. Dante wealthy; for as the Cantonese say: less, but most excellent
knowledge of the artist. And I de Both my carly sawings of lettuce are. Next War in dumb acquiescence. Alighieri in his celebrated Purgatorio,
"Yat-slu ka-moon hol;
belleve it to bee true that Mr. H. gone and the radishes too. Out of they have profited from the Ideas of The British Youth Pence other peoples, and have created por-
Yi-siu fant-taal-taʼol.”
| Hall was the leading painter of race every three sweet pea seeds, two bo "At the first smile the family door horses in early Victorian times, hee dead, and I must sow all over again being a distant cousin by marriage and then bee late, even if the second of the habitation of the dead. Their
opens (to prosperity);
of my Mother. With the Barou and sowing comes up. Mistress Barbara the same address as the League underworld is not only a sort uf
At the second, great wealth is Mistress Jean to the Hostelry to take to nuncheon and we take a dish of shadowy realm where the spirits of
our nuncheon and I so merry a tea in the garden when, thanks bee- of Nations Uni.n and supported the departed assemble after death, amassed."
to God, I doe feel a chill come in the- by the Union's Youth groups but also a more tangible purgatory Furthermore, the popular belief in never more.
whose transcendental power extends connection with these smiles of the 0th-This day I doe wake with anir. For now I can but hope to doe and University Branches and even into the world of the living. In aceping babe, is that if the infant chill or rheum afleting mce and well with my bulbs, and this may fact, according to Chinese belief, siceps in its cot with its hands re- whence it comes I know not. To the only bee. If wee de have good cold niso by the Youth organisations the soula of All future in laxed, then wealth is surely to be a Races and did take nuncheon in Mr. weather. Before of the Liberal, Labour and habitants
are reward of the home; but if it sleeps Tang's box and all very merry but neighbours come in to drink a glasse in with its sts tightly clenched, the I doe win nothing in the sweepstakes of wine with mee and I do find that Communist parties, has become the state of suspended anima- opposite is to be implied,
and Lord! 1 doe wish I were clear they have had similar trouble to of them. But if I doe drop a num-mine in their garden, during the last year or two atlon, awaiting the seasonable hour
17b-Very busy in the office. for their birth into our mundane WEDDING CEREMONIALS ber, tls sure to win at the next!
meeting. Home betimes after the colder day and I do feel somewhat vital and efficient part of the sphere. In short, the Oriental bellef
In conclusion, one may mention
better, but Lord! I am so thronged bed, is that every human being is re-
Meeting and go
with Business I have no leisure.. peace movement.
presented in a sort of garden in the that the Flower Goddess and her
0th. (Lord's Day)-Abed all day
18th-This day to Government underworld, and while this may be spouse are regarded us being capable
wretched as ever I felt, House where Sir Robert Kotewall likened to the so-called Garden of of bestowing children to a married and Proserpina, as celebrated by the couple, and as offspring is the sole blowing of my nose and so at last doth receive his Letters Patent 68 Greek and Latin poets, there is a vast purpose of the Chinese conception of fell asleep after many asprins, and a Knight Bachelor and Mr. J. Taggart is invested with the most Honourablé persuade the Government of its difference; for instead of there being marriage, it is inevitable that these hot drink of limmon and honey.
10th-This day I doć wake some-Order of the British Empire, while duty to stand clearly along groves of sombre trees about the two popular deities should occupy a
palace of Yim-ich-wong, or the Ruler prominent place in wedding cere- what better and my chyrurgeon an Indian Officer dath receive a high. on the marriage sounds mee and doth permit mee to order as well. After, much pleasant talk with my friends and so back to with other peace-loving coun-of Hades, and fields of pale-flowered monials. In fact,
Asphodel, the Chinese conceive of a night, after incense has been burnt go to the Races where I take my my office, but Lord! It is turned hot. tries in defence of Czecho real garden in which every living and libations poured out to the vari- nuncheon in Mr. Caldbeck's box and agala and I doe feel none too well. Slovakia.
a representative plant ous gods and goddesses and their aid all as merry as usual-and some of and I minded that I need a holyday person has
so, seeing their and some walking over the hills in with his name written on the pot in and protection invoked, a married the Ladies more which it grows. Singularly enough, couple who have had several sons Lords doe return from the South in the open air.
19th Again very unwell, and to life and death are both explained in born to them, and hence called it may bee a week. My fortune la gency Committee has recently the behaviour of the plant; for if the ho-ming-kung-pah,
or "fortunate as ill as ever though I doe make a the Hostelry at one of the clock when telegraphed to the Czecho-Slova fatter flourishes, the person it re husband and wife" are invited to pre- couple of wagers and win a dollar! doe cat my nuncheon with Mr. A.
Jay-whom I have not seen there. GUARANTEED kian Committee of the World resenta prospers, and if it dies, then pare the nuptial bed, and while they or two. Home very betimes and so many days. There wee dos speak
Individual typifled dies also, are
engaged, they
together of the speed of the Japanese Youth Congress Movement, de- when these plants blossom, white is the following invocation to the Fa-
11th. To my office but I am a sick dash upon Canton, which shall either claring Its solidarity with them. «mblematic of sons and red of kung and Fa-ploh:
man, and yet no fever. So what to prosper greatly in a few days or shall On October 25, a National daughters, a notion which is further "Fa-p'oh tìm chuk sham kwong fal, doe I know not. Mistress Aun to come to some great disaster, Later I did betake mee to his house where NO INNER BORING WHATSOEVER Conference of Youth is being it somewhat portfe Cantonese ex-
nuncheon at the Hostelry and after he hath a couple of pretty ladies and at my office, and go home very be some gentlefolk, with whom I have- much converse. And they dos doubt Pa jaat moon-t'ong ch'eng - joo-| times and to bed.
much of the strength of the Canton Ital
12th-This day I doo feel even defence, but of this we shall assured. worse, though no fever, and son to ly be certain in a few days. I looked Ofee where I doe pay my insurance everywhere for the dogge Martin bük This may be freely translated some-polley and give Mistress Diana ait seems hee hath had one of those, what as follows:
D&PAT
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Among its latest activities a meeting is being planned to
PIPE In this connection ita Emer
ALL POPULAR SHAPES
SOLE IMPORTERS FOR THE FAR EAST:- C. INGENOHL'S CIGAR STORES LA PERLA DEL ORIENTE
HONGKONG
SHANGHAI
preserved
the
of the universe
OF more
less
explained by the fact that a common
pression for a youth is peak-fa-t#GT "white flower son," while a maiden is designated as hung-fa-nul "red nower
daughter."
FLOWER GOD
thus
•Fa-kung eung-tes to moon lai,
chant to bed.
Fa-kaan kit-tez tzol loh-wat”'.
for thee
GJ
held at the Friends Meeting House, London, to declare the general attitude of Youth in the present crisis. It is expected that discussion will centre in
posset and drink one myself, though hysterical attes that puppies are particular round such matters This garden is, moreover, under “Flower-goddess,
our it does me little good. Took my nun- wont to take at the end of the hot weather and so is gone to the Jockey cheon with Mr. Caldbeck and his club for nursing. But I trust he wil jas A.R.P., Voluntary National the control of a happy couple who in candles burn bright,
Lady at the Snakepit, but I cannot soon bee humb. So home, and, after the scheme of popular Chinese belief Service, the Territorials, etc. axert a tremendous influence, and home to delight,
Flower god, pray send sons this enjoy it and so, ordering matters as listening to the wireless which plays best I may in the office, I home and Gilbert and Sullivan, to bed." And 1 There is also to take place, if here is scarcely a native of the
Middle Kingdom who has never Flowers Alling with wealth and to bed where at last I doe firid I have a somewhat minded to set aside thy diary for a pace, there being mo. it can be properly organised, a
fever and so tô à very III night...
much of other import of which eard of them. These are the god honour, the hall, great Youth ponce pilgrimage to Faskung "lower man" and his
18th-14th-Comes my Chyrurgoon must take notice. But how this hall Flowers bearing much fruit on this London.
spouse Fa-p'oh “Flower woman," who bed to fall."
who tells mee I am sick of a bee. I cannot yet saJĀ
.