Chinese Creeds And Customs

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Front Cover; Chinese Creeds and Customs; Copyright Page; Volume I; Contents; New Year; The God of Wealth; New Year Customs; The Budding or 2nd Moon; The Feast of Excited Insects; The Beginning of Spring; The T'ien Hou Festival; The Fourth Moon; The Tam Kung Festival; The Ch'ing Ming Festival; The Dragon Boat Festival; The Lotus Moon; The Double Seventh; Festival of the Hungry Ghosts; The Moon Festival; The Moon and Marriage; The Mister Rabbit; The Harvest Moon; The Gods of the Measure; The Double Ninth; The Tenth Moon; The Kindly Moon; The Eleventh Moon; The Bitter Moon. New Year PreliminariesThe New Year Fair; The Twelfth Month; Thanksgiving Day; A Boat People's Wedding; Fortune-telling; Marriages Made in Heaven; Funerals; A Junk-warming; Wedding Walk; The Chicken's Bride; Clairvoyance; The Meaning of Presents; The Chinese Cuisine; Betrothal and Wedding Customs; Symbolism in Chinese Art; Primitive Religion; The Star Gods; Feng Shui; The Taoist Pope; A Chinese Bestiary; The Home Physician; Patron Saints; Moon Cakes; Secret Societies; The Earth Gods; The Eight Immortals; Purveyor to the Gods; Luck; Religion and the Chinese; Children in China; Burial Customs. Charms and TalismansIndex; Volume II; Foreword; Contents; The Chinese Calendar; The Measurement of Time; Finger Jades; Pagodas; A Peking Pilgrimage; On the Nature of the Soul; The Queen's Beasts; A Diversity of Dragons; Horses; Paper Tigers; Monkey; The Rats' Wedding; Cats; The Three-Legged Toad; Chinese Fish Stories; The New Year Feast; Cantonese Hungry Ghosts Festival; The Magnolia Festival; The Dragon Boat Festival; The Moon Festival; A Village Festival; The Birthday of Confucius; The Birthday of the Lotus; Etiquette; Chinese Dress; Hakka National Costume; Chinese Shadow Boxing. Domestic DifficultiesTemples at Stanley; Village Shrines; Local Worthies; The Patriarch of Cheung Chau; Lu Pan; Requiem Masses; Urn Burial; Feng Shui; Exorcists; Spiritualism; National Health Insurance; The Babies' First Bow; The Care of Children; The Walled Villages; Ti Tsang Pusa; The Hundred Gods; Temple Guardians; Water Legends; Taoist Worship; The Queen of the Western Heaven; The City Gods; Lei Kung, the God of Thunder; The God of Fire; The Boat People; Fishermen at Stanley; Chinese Family Names; Appendix I: The Twenty-Four Solar ""Joints and Breaths"" of the Year. Appendix II: The Ten Celestial Stems and Twelve Earthly BranchesAppendix III: Chinse Temples; Index; Bibliography; Volume III; Contents; The Creation; The Legendary Period; Birthdays; The Status of Women; Chinese Religion; Redecorating the Temple; The Birthday of Kuan Yin; The Spirit of the North; Consecrating a Temple; The Birthday of Pei Ti; Ancestral Tablets; The Hungry Ghosts of Fukien; The Path to Purgatory; Sidelights on the Moon Festival; Demoniac Possession; Fox Fairies; Ghosts; Metamorphosis; Compounding a Quarrel; The Pool of The White Geese; Spirits of Healing; The Hakkas