ABSTRACT
The Chinese are noted gamblers, and have invented a great many methods of playing for amusement or for money. The shops opened for gamblers are very numerous in some streets and in some localities. The Chinese are very fond of farces. A popular farce is that of a Buddhist priest leading a blind man to see the show of lanterns. The thing which seems to be amusing is the main idea of the farce. Boys in China have no such games of ball as are common and popular in the West. But among adults, in the Chinese January, and occasionally at other times of the year, there are one or two kinds of amusement practised which perhaps deserve mention in this connexion. The Chinese have most strange and singular ideas in regard to thunder and lightning. Both are worshipped. There is a temple dedicated to the thunder god near the east gate.
