To troubles that are past!
‘Tis well they didn’t last;
Our Chinese cooks had fun,
But we, alas! had none—
Cold joints are good enough,
But oh! we like “hot stuff,”
No skittles and no beer,
For us, Chinese New Year.
“Life is not all beer and skittles”—
But it will be if we drink
RAINIER.
It’s all right Sir
it’s
Rainier
C. A. Nelson, Agt. Phone Main 1331
(Evening Bulletin, 2/18/1907, p. 5)
Evening Bulletin, Volume IX, Number 3619, Page 5. February 18, 1907.
QUONG ON CLUBHOUSE.
“Kung he fat choy!”
It always rains on Chinese New Year. Which is a mercy. Because, if it did not, all kinds of things that result from playing with fire would be likely to happen. They began happening at midnight last night, with a great and long-continued noise. At the first the whistles blew at the hour of twelve sharp. That was the signal. Then a fiery pandemonium broke forth, and raged up and down all through the Asiatic quarter of the town, from Nuuanu to River street…
(Hawaiian Gazette, 2/3/1905, p. 1)
Hawaiian Gazette, Volume XL, Number 10, Page 1. February 3, 1905.
…and beyond, and on all the cross streets where the sons of the Central Flowery Kingdom, who make their homes in Honolulu, have their abiding place. Continue reading
New Year’s Day of the Chinese.—This coming Saturday [1/25/1868], we were told, is the Happy New Year Day of the people of China [ka aina pua]. Their new year day is a day that is considered a very important day to arrive, perhaps just as how the new year day of other people are thought greatly of. But their celebration is probably much bigger than that of the other ethnicities. Their celebration of their new year often begins by setting off fire crackers at midnight, and you are welcomed by them with them saying not our “Hape Nuia,” but with “Kono-hi! Konohi!” And then you say “Kuninihi.” [?? I iho no hoi “Kuninihi.”]
(Au Okoa, 1/23/1868, p. 2)
Ke Au Okoa, Buke III, Helu 40, Aoao 2. Ianuari 23, 1868.
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