Large and attractive signboards are a great feature of Chinese shops, and the words upon them are a strange mixture of the flowery literature of the land and the advertising instincts of a commercial people. Here are some: “Shop of Heaven-sent Luck”; “TeaShop of Celestial Principles”; “The Nine Felicities Prolonged”; “Mutton Chop of Morning Twilight”; “The Ten Virtues all Complete”; “Flowers Rise to the Milky Way.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20362, 20 July 1934, Page 5
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