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the stream, waterfalls and gardens returned.
It had been an impressive show, enlivened by the little comedy of the amiable man and the two girls.
JAMES HAYES
NOTES ON TEMPLES AND SHRINES,
HONG KONG ISLAND
The 1983 Journal contains my article about urban shrines and temples, written largely from the organizational and managerial aspects. See "Secular Non-Gentry Leadership of Temple and Shrine Organizations in Urban British Hong Kong”, in JHKRBAS 23 (1983), pp. 113-136.
The present Note refers to one of the shrines examined in the article, the Earth God shrine at Sheung Fung Lane, Sai Ying Pun at pp. 121-124 therein: and to another in the urban area of Hong Kong Island which was not included. This second shrine is the Pak Kung altar at Peel Street in the Central District, just below the junction of Peel and Staunton Streets.
Sheung Fung Lane
On 9th February 1974, when serving in the Urban Services Department as Assistant Director of Urban Services (Hong Kong Island) I attended the opening of the celebrations marking the god's birthday which falls in the first lunar month.
There was a pailau (M) or ornamental arch at the junction of Queen's Road West with Centre Street. The stage for the customary puppet opera performances, together with its adjacent temporary altar, both made of bamboo, were assembled in a nearby public playground. The whole frontage of the combined stage and shrine constituted another pailau.
Ribbons were stretched across the whole frontage, with another
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the stream, waterfalls and gardens returned.
It had been an impressive show, enlivened by the little comedy of the amiable man and the two girls.
JAMES HAYES
NOTES ON TEMPLES AND SHRINES,
HONG KONG ISLAND
The 1983 Journal contains my article about urban shrines and temples, written largely from the organizational and managerial aspects. See "Secular Non-Gentry Leadership of Temple and Shrine Organizations in Urban British Hong Kong”, in JHKRBAS 23 (1983), pp. 113-136.
The present Note refers to one of the shrines examined in the article, the Earth God shrine at Sheung Fung Lane, Sai Ying Pun at pp. 121-124 therein: and to another in the urban area of Hong Kong Island which was not included. This second shrine is the Pak Kung altar at Peel Street in the Central District, just below the junction of Peel and Staunton Streets.
Sheung Fung Lane
On 9th February 1974, when serving in the Urban Services Department as Assistant Director of Urban Services (Hong Kong Island) I attended the opening of the celebrations marking the god's birthday which falls in the first lunar month.
There was a pailau (M) or ornamental arch at the junction of Queen's Road West with Centre Street. The stage for the custom- ary puppet opera performances, together with its adjacent tempor- ary altar, both made of bamboo, were assembled in a nearby public playground. The whole frontage of the combined stage and shrine constituted another pailau.
Ribbons were stretched across the whole frontage, with another
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