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Start Over Object class Supernatural entities (motifs) Collection place Beijing municipality, Northern China Materials Paper (fiber product)
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Hair ornament, accession number 9-21313a, described as Hair decorations [a-f] for girls at the mid-summer (dragon-boat) festival. 1) Replica of “tsung-tzu”: glutinous rice wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves and tied in many colors (sacrifice on dragon-boat day to the spirit of Ch’u Yuan, the faithful but slandered minister who drowned himself in protest) over frog, one of the poisonous animals for children; 2) Scorpion and snake on red velvet. There should be three more poisonous animals, but they can no longer be identified; 3) Many-colored ball over snake, one of the poisonous animals; 4) Two many-colored yarn braids; 5) Leeks over gourd; 6) Eight folded paper squares combined into a star, three glutinous rice packages in descending size and a large, many-colored tassel.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Hair ornament, accession number 9-21313e, described as Hair decorations [a-f] for girls at the mid-summer (dragon-boat) festival. 1) Replica of “tsung-tzu”: glutinous rice wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves and tied in many colors (sacrifice on dragon-boat day to the spirit of Ch’u Yuan, the faithful but slandered minister who drowned himself in protest) over frog, one of the poisonous animals for children; 2) Scorpion and snake on red velvet. There should be three more poisonous animals, but they can no longer be identified; 3) Many-colored ball over snake, one of the poisonous animals; 4) Two many-colored yarn braids; 5) Leeks over gourd; 6) Eight folded paper squares combined into a star, three glutinous rice packages in descending size and a large, many-colored tassel.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Hair ornament, accession number 9-21313d, described as Hair decorations [a-f] for girls at the mid-summer (dragon-boat) festival. 1) Replica of “tsung-tzu”: glutinous rice wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves and tied in many colors (sacrifice on dragon-boat day to the spirit of Ch’u Yuan, the faithful but slandered minister who drowned himself in protest) over frog, one of the poisonous animals for children; 2) Scorpion and snake on red velvet. There should be three more poisonous animals, but they can no longer be identified; 3) Many-colored ball over snake, one of the poisonous animals; 4) Two many-colored yarn braids; 5) Leeks over gourd; 6) Eight folded paper squares combined into a star, three glutinous rice packages in descending size and a large, many-colored tassel.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Hair ornament, accession number 9-21313c, described as Hair decorations [a-f] for girls at the mid-summer (dragon-boat) festival. 1) Replica of “tsung-tzu”: glutinous rice wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves and tied in many colors (sacrifice on dragon-boat day to the spirit of Ch’u Yuan, the faithful but slandered minister who drowned himself in protest) over frog, one of the poisonous animals for children; 2) Scorpion and snake on red velvet. There should be three more poisonous animals, but they can no longer be identified; 3) Many-colored ball over snake, one of the poisonous animals; 4) Two many-colored yarn braids; 5) Leeks over gourd; 6) Eight folded paper squares combined into a star, three glutinous rice packages in descending size and a large, many-colored tassel.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Hair ornament, accession number 9-21313b, described as Hair decorations [a-f] for girls at the mid-summer (dragon-boat) festival. 1) Replica of “tsung-tzu”: glutinous rice wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves and tied in many colors (sacrifice on dragon-boat day to the spirit of Ch’u Yuan, the faithful but slandered minister who drowned himself in protest) over frog, one of the poisonous animals for children; 2) Scorpion and snake on red velvet. There should be three more poisonous animals, but they can no longer be identified; 3) Many-colored ball over snake, one of the poisonous animals; 4) Two many-colored yarn braids; 5) Leeks over gourd; 6) Eight folded paper squares combined into a star, three glutinous rice packages in descending size and a large, many-colored tassel.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Hair ornament, accession number 9-21313f, described as Hair decorations [a-f] for girls at the mid-summer (dragon-boat) festival. 1) Replica of “tsung-tzu”: glutinous rice wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves and tied in many colors (sacrifice on dragon-boat day to the spirit of Ch’u Yuan, the faithful but slandered minister who drowned himself in protest) over frog, one of the poisonous animals for children; 2) Scorpion and snake on red velvet. There should be three more poisonous animals, but they can no longer be identified; 3) Many-colored ball over snake, one of the poisonous animals; 4) Two many-colored yarn braids; 5) Leeks over gourd; 6) Eight folded paper squares combined into a star, three glutinous rice packages in descending size and a large, many-colored tassel.
Hearst Museum object titled Hair ornaments, accession number 9-21313a-f, described as Hair decorations [a-f] for girls at the mid-summer (dragon-boat) festival. 1) Replica of “tsung-tzu”: glutinous rice wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves and tied in many colors (sacrifice on dragon-boat day to the spirit of Ch’u Yuan, the faithful but slandered minister who drowned himself in protest) over frog, one of the poisonous animals for children; 2) Scorpion and snake on red velvet. There should be three more poisonous animals, but they can no longer be identified; 3) Many-colored ball over snake, one of the poisonous animals; 4) Two many-colored yarn braids; 5) Leeks over gourd; 6) Eight folded paper squares combined into a star, three glutinous rice packages in descending size and a large, many-colored tassel.
Hearst Museum object titled Paper cutouts, accession number 9-21362a-e, described as Paper cutouts. Set of four paper cutouts for the midsummer dragon boat festival. Red paper. 10.5 - 12 cm high; 6 - 7 cm wide. 1) Centipede and lizard on top, frog in center beside lotus leaf; 2) Pair of scissors to cut scorpion and frog on top, snake in the middle, and lizard and centipede in handles; 3) Star decorated gourd; 4) Swastika decorated gourd with frog and scorpion below, lizard (?) and snake above.
Hearst Museum object titled Paper decorations, accession number 9-21348a-d, described as Set of four paper decorations for mid-summer (dragon boat) festival: a) four-colored square, reminiscent of the pharmaceutical plasters against summer poisons; b) two colored square, same as a, but with imprint of the magician Chung K’uei on his tiger holding poisonous animals in check; c) monad in octagon with eight trigrams powerful magic against poisonous animals; d) large paper imitation of girls’ hair decoration: two beads, on gourd, two beads, tassel in red and cobalt blue.
Hearst Museum object titled Pendants, accession number 9-21367a-k, described as Eleven Pendants. Left to right: 1) Fish over gourd (the magician, Chung K’uei catches and/or releases evil spirits in his magic gourd). 2) Butterfly over gourd. 3) Goose over gourd. 4) Velvet gourd over fruit and vegetables: apple, pear, strawberry (?), ?, ?, spring onion; the magician riding the tiger; carrot; eggplant, ?, leek, and a Ho-pao perfume pouch. 5) Buddha’s fingers citrus over a gourd. 6) The magician Chung K’uei with his magic sword on the tiger slaying one of the poisonous threats to children, the centipede. 7) Goldfish over gourd; 8) Tsung-tzu (glutinous rice wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves and tied in many colors: the sacrifice, on dragon boat day, to the spirit of Ch’u Yuan, the faithful, but slandered minister who drowned himself in protest) and a snake, another of the five poisonous animals. 9) Magpie on peach blossoms (joy and long life) over gourd. The character “special” on the paper bead below. 10) Rooster (happiness) over gourd. 11) Eggplants over gourd.

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