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Pang tao ba xian hui, or Pang tao (flat peaches): eight fairies festival: a festival held on the 3d of the 3d lunar month in honour of the goddess Hsi Wang-mu. .

N.p., n.p., n.d. [1900].

8vo, pp. 21, with 10 hand-coloured illustrations on crepe paper; a very good copy, minor foxing to endpapers, an accordion style book in wooden boards with Chinese character intaglioed on cover and painted green.

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First edition. The parallel Chinese and English text with an illustration accompanying each page of text tells the stories of various figures from Chinese mythology including the eight immortals revered by Taoists. The eight immortals were also known as the eight genies, or sometimes the eight fairies. Partially historical personalities, each one represents a different condition of life and they are considered symbols of good fortune.

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