"What is this Dragon Boat)" Festival which the Chinese celebrate I wonder how many of foreign, and even Chiness friends Properly understand what the ocvasion really is. Is it an occasion of joy for we hear the drums beating land see the Chinese racing in boats?
On who has not studied Chinese! history would in all probability not know that the Din Woo (fifth day of the fifth moon, Chinese calendar) is. In fact, to be very frank, I did not know myself until' my wife told me about' it. That is why I desire to let my friends know what I have learned.
It seems that there was a very high official whose name was Wah Yuen (Wat Yuan to pronounce it jin Cantonese), who was a very clever scholar. So well versed in literature was he and so great an administrator, that the King of the time greatly respected him for his abilities. The King learn-not only to recognize his ability, but to put his trast in Wah and to love him deeply.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.