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Chinese Birthday, Wedding, Funeral & Other Customs 1923

http://beijing.virtualcities.fr/Texts/E-Library?ID=269 http://beijing.virtualcities.fr/Asset/Source/bnBook_ID-269_No-01.pdf http://tianjin.virtualcities.fr/Texts/E-Library?ID=269 http://www.virtualshanghai.net/Texts/E-Library?ID=269

http://books.google.com/books/about/Chinese_Birthday_Wedding_Funeral_and_Oth.html?id=h3apnQEACAAJ http://books.google.com/books/about/Chinese_Birthday_Wedding_Funeral_Other_C.html?id=zI0WXBhJcUUC

http://www.worldcat.org/title/chinese-birthday-wedding-funeral-and-other-customs/oclc/1906325 http://www.worldcat.org/title/chinese-birthday-wedding-funeral-and-other-customs/oclc/729090632 http://www.worldcat.org/title/chinese-birthday-wedding-funeral-and-other-customs/oclc/41832268

http://books.google.com/books?id=W0fBhqb1kdkC&pg=PA1703&lpg=PA1703&dq=Chinese+Birthday,+Wedding,+Funeral+%26+Other+Customs+1923&source=bl&ots=2bDKH6q7KH&sig=pTOs6pjouA8h9Xd_pqj7JsmUwdI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BcdKVPzCDezGsQTe4YK4DQ&ved=0CCsQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Chinese%20Birthday%2C%20Wedding%2C%20Funeral%20%26%20Other%20Customs%201923&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=bZLuR24BZiYC&pg=PA260&lpg=PA260&dq=Chinese+Birthday,+Wedding,+Funeral+%26+Other+Customs+1923&source=bl&ots=XoXTQnymV5&sig=fm1MfueGZlR_5bb3D3Plo9OOQlE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BcdKVPzCDezGsQTe4YK4DQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Chinese%20Birthday%2C%20Wedding%2C%20Funeral%20%26%20Other%20Customs%201923&f=false

Beijing suncakes[edit]

There is a separate kind of suncake that used to be made in Beijing called (traditional Chinese: 太陽糕; simplified Chinese: 太阳糕; pinyin: tàiyáng gāo; Wade–Giles: t'ai yang kao), for a holiday in the Chinese lunar calendar, made out of different ingredients than Taiwan suncakes. The suncake is made in celebration of the sun's birthday on the second lunar month's first day. The cake is made layer by layer out of rice flour or flour with sugar and steamed. The layers deviate in size from each other and the thickness of each layer is around one half of an inch. The cake is assembled from the layers from with the top layers being the small ones and the bottomost layer being the largest, when they are steamed. A red colored dough shaped into a cock chicken is placed on a stick, which is then inserted into a hole made in the middle of all the layers. 5 or 3 of these suncakes are put on a plate with gold, paper money, silver and two red candles on a courtyard table during daylight. A kowtow is made to the sun during the worshipping and incense sticks and the candles are lit and in the anterior of the table and iron basin is placed in which the worshipper burns the paper money.

The worshipper eats the cakes after the ceremony is over when the flame burns out the incense and candles.

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http://books.google.com/books?id=zI0WXBhJcUUC&pg=PA193&dq=Suncake&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jXLPUMOqBcOa0QGZh4HYAw&ved=0CFcQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Suncake&f=false

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http://books.google.com/books?id=5sgO9BuZQSEC&pg=PA86&dq=Suncake&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-3PPUMusOI_h0wHyz4DwDg&ved=0CGQQ6AEwCTge#v=onepage&q=Suncake&f=false

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CHAPTER II— THE SECOND MONTH SUN CAKES (T'ai Yang Kao & & #&) ON the first day of the second month merchants make small ... The image of a small chicken, a little over an inch in size, is put on top, and these are called sun cakes.

CHAPTER II— THE SECOND MONTH SUN CAKES (T'ai Yang Kao & & #&) ON the first day of the second month merchants make small cakes out of rice flour which cost five coppers a layer. The image of a small chicken, a little over an inch in ...

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http://books.google.com/books?ei=ZHnPULX4AqWz0QHv94CQAg&id=2pjSAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sun+cakes+peking&q=Sun+cakes+peking+merchants#search_anchor

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CHAPTER II— THE SECOND MONTH Sun Cakes (T'ai Yang Kao *. fh *) On the first day of the second month merchants make small ... The image of a small chicken, a little over an inch in size, is put on top, and these are called sun cakes.

CHAPTER II— THE SECOND MONTH Sun Cakes (T'ai Yang Kao *. fh *) On the first day of the second month merchants make small cakes out of rice flour which cost five coppers a layer. The image of a small chicken, a little over an inch in ...

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http://books.google.com/books?ei=ZHnPULX4AqWz0QHv94CQAg&id=s_AOAAAAQAAJ&dq=Sun+cakes+peking&q=Sun+cakes+peking+merchants#search_anchor

Page 259 and 213

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Ta Han: Severe Cold (twenty-fourth solar term), 207. Ta Hsueh: Heavy Snow ( twenty-first solar term), 206. Ta Shu: Great Heat (twelfth solar term), 204. T'ai: carried by two people together, 45. T'ai yang kao: sun cake, 213. T'ang: a dynasty a.d. ...

http://books.google.com/books?ei=V5DPUOaPK-f20gHTtYDQCw&id=5rRxAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sun+cake+t%27ai+yang+kao&q=Sun+cake+yang+kao+213+dynasty#search_anchor

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lore. On this day worship is rendered to the king of day, mostly by the womenfolk. A special cake, called t'ai yang kao, or " sun cake," is made on this day, and is used in the worship. It is made of flour, or rice-flour, and sugar, and is steamed in

http://books.google.com/books?ei=V5DPUOaPK-f20gHTtYDQCw&id=5rRxAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sun+cake+t%27ai+yang+kao&q=special+Sun+cake+t%27ai+yang+kao+used#search_anchor

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of rice-flour cakes surmounted by a dough rooster. Chinese tradition has it that a golden rooster dwells in the sun. The second day of the second moon is the day on which the "Dragon Lifts its Head" from winter hibernation. On this day married ...

http://books.google.com/books?ei=yHrPUIWOC6-u0AGEsoG4Dg&id=uwobAAAAIAAJ&dq=Sun+cakes+peiping&q=Sun+cakes+peiping+dough+dwells#search_anchor

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"Sometimes during the day, while the sun is still shining, a table is put up in the courtyard, and on it are placed two red candles, silver, gold, and cash paper money, and a plate on which are three or five 'sun-cakes'. When the worship begins, ...

http://books.google.com/books?ei=sHbPUPmpO-LH0QHCkoGQAQ&id=WZfpAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sun+cakes+peking&q=+cakes+incense+kowtows+peking#search_anchor

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(In the matter of cakes alone, there are New Year cakes, spring cakes, sun cakes, elm- seed cakes, dragon-scale cakes, ... we must first take notice, if only for an instant, of the beauty and strangeness of the particular scenes which the Peking ...

http://books.google.com/books?ei=VnfPULHZCous0AGWxYDYBQ&id=AJAnAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sun+cakes+peking&q=Sun+cakes#search_anchor

Reliable chinese language sources

http://www.zdic.net/cd/ci/4/ZdicE5ZdicA4ZdicAA100153.htm

http://big5.huaxia.com/zhwh/whrd/whrdwz/2010/03/1801695.html

http://www.china.com.cn/chinese/zhuanti/313017.htm

http://xh.5156edu.com/html5/115123.html

http://big5.ifeng.com/gate/big5/zhongyi.ifeng.com/news/slys/20133/231320.shtml

http://zhongyi.ifeng.com/news/slys/20133/231320.shtml

http://life.qianlong.com/36311/2013/03/20/4682@8575536.htm

http://www.showchina.org/zt/24jq/f_7/8/201203/t1124876.htm

Not reliable sources

http://baike.baidu.com/view/6446435.htm

03:53, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

References

^ Cormack, Annie (2003). Chinese Birthday, Wedding, Funeral & Other Customs 1923 (reprint ed.). Kessinger Publishing. p. 193. ISBN 0766146685. Retrieved 24 April 2014. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
^ Welch, Patricia Bjaaland (2008). Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery. Art and Design Series (illustrated ed.). Tuttle Publishing. p. 86. ISBN 080483864X. Retrieved 24 April 2014. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
^ Ch'en, Tun Li; Bodde, Derk (1987). "CHAPTER II–THE SECOND MONTH". Annual Customs and Festivals in Peking. Translated by Derk Bodde (3, illustrated ed.). Hong Kong University Press. p. 25. ISBN 9622091954. Retrieved 24 April 2014. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help); horizontal tab character in |others= at position 14 (help)
^ Dun, Lichen (1936). "CHAPTER II–THE SECOND MONTH". In Bodde, Derk (ed.). Annual customs and festivals in Peking as recorded in the Yen-ching Sui-shih-chi. Vol. Volume 24 of Supplement of Asian folklore & social life monographs. Translated by Derk Bodde. H. Vetch. p. 25. ISBN 9622091954. Retrieved 24 April 2014. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help); horizontal tab character in |others= at position 14 (help)

Nonrelated[edit]

http://books.google.com/books?id=ksZAyOrepTMC&pg=PA487&dq=Sun+cakes+peking&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CHjPUOWZOsi00AHi64DoCg&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBjjwAQ#v=onepage&q=Sun%20cakes%20peking&f=false

Chinese Language(s): A Look Through the Prism of The Great Dictionary of ... By Maria Kurpaska

http://books.google.com/books?id=lCgnrA7Ke3QC&pg=PA116&dq=Sun+cake+beijing&hl=en&sa=X&ei=a3TPUNHhIaWy0QGgzIGgBw&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Sun%20cake%20beijing&f=false

Flour ferment

http://books.google.com/books?id=FgtFxedkgbcC&pg=PA190&dq=Sun+cakes+peking&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WHjPUOK6EKTK0AGAjoCYDg&ved=0CGMQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Sun%20cakes%20peking&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=fM2Bh6WifHQC&pg=PA290&dq=Sun+cakes+peking&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nnjPUJLLF8nr0QHuu4GgBQ&ved=0CDsQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=Sun%20cakes%20peking&f=false

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In this sentence the speaker describes the appearance of peddlers of mashed pea cakes in Peking. ... In his work Word-order change and grammaticalization in the history of Chinese (1996), Chaofen Sun elaborates among other subjects on ...

http://books.google.com/books?id=d7PZAAAAMAAJ&q=Sun+cakes+peking&dq=Sun+cakes+peking&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FHjPUNOXAaPG0QHD2IH4Dg&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBTj6AQ

Waste collection

http://books.google.com/books?id=ONWxWuI3udgC&pg=PA347&dq=Sun+cakes+peking&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WHjPUOK6EKTK0AGAjoCYDg&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAQ

Food machinery

http://books.google.com/books?id=crG1qDDI1sEC&pg=PA284&dq=Sun+cakes+peking&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WHjPUOK6EKTK0AGAjoCYDg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Sun%20cakes%20peking&f=false

Sugar cake bakers association

http://books.google.com/books?id=cZuaAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA816#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=ghkNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

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[1] Cormack, Annie (2003). Chinese Birthday, Wedding, Funeral & Other Customs 1923 (reprint ed.). Kessinger Publishing. p. 193. ISBN 0766146685. Retrieved 24 April 2014. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

[2] Welch, Patricia Bjaaland (2008). Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery. Art and Design Series (illustrated ed.). Tuttle Publishing. p. 86. ISBN 080483864X. Retrieved 24 April 2014. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

[3] Ch'en, Tun Li; Bodde, Derk (1987). "CHAPTER II–THE SECOND MONTH". Annual Customs and Festivals in Peking. Translated by Derk Bodde (3, illustrated ed.). Hong Kong University Press. p. 25. ISBN 9622091954. Retrieved 24 April 2014. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help); horizontal tab character in |others= at position 14 (help)

[4] Dun, Lichen (1936). "CHAPTER II–THE SECOND MONTH". In Bodde, Derk (ed.). Annual customs and festivals in Peking as recorded in the Yen-ching Sui-shih-chi. Vol. Volume 24 of Supplement of Asian folklore & social life monographs. Translated by Derk Bodde. H. Vetch. p. 25. ISBN 9622091954. Retrieved 24 April 2014. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help); horizontal tab character in |others= at position 14 (help)

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