ABSTRACT
The ceremonies at the" Investiture of the Top Knot" deserve a brief notice as among the most important of the singnlarities of the nation. When the father and family have decided that a boy shall be "invested," which in nearly. all cases is on the verge of his marriage, men's clothes, the hat, mang-kun, etc., are provided to the limits of the family purse, and the astrologer~ are consulted, who choose a propitious day and hour for the ceremony, as well as the point of the compass which the chief actor is to face during its progress. The fees of the regular astrologer are very high, and in the case of the poor, the blind sorcerer is usually called in to decide on these important points.
