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Title: At home with the Hakkas in South China
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Nagel, Sherman A. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mountain View, Cal., Kansas City, Mo. (etc.) Pacific press publishing association
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p and down every river in China, in long,narrow boats, looking for his body. The bow of each of these boatsis built to represent a great dragon; and the boatmen, sometimes asmany as fifty, make their paddles all go to time, as one beats a bigdrum. From the shore, it appears like an immense dragon. The Chinese have great respect for the dragon. I do not meanthe boat dragon, but one which they think lives in the earth. When-ever there is an earthquake, they say it is caused by the dragons 1 HAKKAS IN SOUTH CHINA Page 43 turning over. An eclipse is caused by the dragons attempting toswallow the moon. This dragon is supposed to be able to prosperor plague the people. This is one reason why China has. so fewmines and railroads. Such things would disturb the dragon and thespirits of their ancestors. It takes years for these heathen superstitions to get-out of theheart of a Chinese, even after he has become a Christian. I remem-ber traveling one day with one of our oldest native preachers, a
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A DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL SCENE Brother Wang. His father had been a Christian preacher beforehim, and one would naturally think that all such nonsense as I haverelated would be out of his life. We had been traveling upriverfor several days, and expected to reach before Sabbath a city wherewe have a chapel. But we were delayed by contrary winds andcould not use the sails; so we saw that we would not reach ourdestination before late Friday evening. Then we prepared for the Page 44 AT HOME WITH THE Sabbath on the boat. I washed, shaved, and put on some cleanclothes. Then I seated myself on my canvas cot and began to reada book. Brother Wang came along and asked if he might borrowmy razor to shave with. Much as I disliked to do so, I let him haveit; but I warned him to be careful, as it was very sharp, not like theold hoes he was accustomed to using. He scoffed at my warning —said he was older than I and had shaved longer than I had. Ithought no more about the matter, but kept on reading,

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