ABSTRACT
CHAPTER IV. THE TWELFTH MOON, OR " BITTER MOON."
~~5~~5I HE Chinese people have no Saturday half-holidays, no idle Sundays. They can not afford such luxuries. Life competition is too keen in a densely over-populated country, where ancestor-worship -that bridge between mortal
homes and a world of spirits needing offerings and loving service-makes a duty of large families, where, without sons, there is the tragedy of the broken line.
