China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary (1812)
Breton, M. (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Freschi, Andrea, b. 1774 · London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale ... · leaf 154
oken of,should not take place at the fourth butat the eighth moon. From sunset and the getting up ofthe moon, till midnight, it is customaryfor every one to walk with their friendsand relations in the streets, public places,gardens, and on the terraces of thehouses, to wait the apparition of a… … ARTS, AwND MANUFACTURES. 123 cular form, arid the largest about twohands breadths in diameter. They re-present a full nnoon, with, in the middle,a hare made of paste, nuts, almonds,kernels, sugar, and other ingredients.They eat them by moonlight: the rich,to the sound of instruments of the…
