Aside from wine, you may also see a lot more chrysanthemum desserts and Chung Yeung cakes during this time – the latter is a steamed rice flour confection usually decorated with jujube, chestnuts, and almonds.
They were poking him with rulers, hitting him in the face with chestnut shells, and were making him out to be a cripple and a monster, by mimicking him, with his arm hanging from his neck.
Aunt Kate was more vivacious. Her face, healthier than her sister's, was all puckers and creases, like a shrivelled red apple, and her hair, braided in the same old-fashioned way, had not lost its ripe nut colour.