Old Customs Vie with Revelry as Crowds Visit Temples and Watch Entertainers Roggars in droves invaded Shanghat on. Tuesday (Feb. 5) to glenn every last conner vouch= sated by tradition, while scores of entertainers setup their stands and regaled mobs of merrymakers along Aventie Edward VII. Wherever the sightseers strolled, darens of small. Chinese, tossing paner toys, or dragging scarlet rabbits mlorlous with paper streamers, reflected the gaiety of their elders and beamed at the passer-by with aces scrubbed until" they literally shone. Every one had a new gown, and the whole city was in gala dress.
On the Soochow Creek, trae was a stondsiill, for the boatmen and their families were on holiday. They. too, treated their floating homes to 4 thorough cleaning, and then, fearing the "bad luck" that every one fof them believed hovered just over their heads, they devoted the entire night from sundown on Sunday until dawn on Monday by fung off hundreds of crackers.
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Along the Bund. one berner how drew his ovate of conners by tossing knives, while' an. inerant—tale wandered off towards the French Fund, his nose turned high at the size of the yorngster's audience. Later he, with his net dow walking tu circles, solemnly guided by a very. bleary-eved monkey, was dle covered in the centre of some 200 admirers. The passing show was all too passing. for the mobs along Avenue Edward VI were hard to hold. They sought more exciting adventure. They stood spell-bound while an artist strinped to the waist his face smeared with "blood." brandishing a spear in one hand and cleaver in the other. promised to plunge this cleaver Into. the body jot his young assistant. He bested. He leaded. This was the most wonderful trick, More coppers! Morel! [Morel They cascaded. The men No Sleep, Good Luck the crowd pressed forward. The performer's right hand went high Unfortunately for the stranger within the gates, tradition has that "the best luck comes only those who do not sleep from. dark until dawn. From all reports safe to say that Shanghai is pre destined to exceptionally good luck this year for none slept undisturbed. There was more noise created to welcome the returning kitchen god and to hasten away evil than since the 1992 dimeulties, lacking. One Jong before the slumbering muster chose to awaken, "Why make this noise?" demanded the infuriated personage. The puller explained that it brought "good. luck, and the forelimer, placated, thanked him, grumpily.
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