Workers in wood and stone, masons, contractors and scaffolding builders drank to the memory of their patron saint, Lo Pan on day. An annual affair, no one connected with any of these trades dea stroke of work on the birthday of he who founded. the vocations that they follow.
Masters had to give their mer a day off, and to provide then with huge' quantities of rice and good things that go with the rice, The workmen ate, drank and made merry, but remembered to give a dow! of rice with meat on the side to all who came for it, Te is belief of long standing that a matt who partakes of food prepared in honour of Lo Pan during the yeat to come will be free from sickness, will be strong and have plenty o€ flesh on his bones,
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