[T]here was grandfaither's siller tester in the puddock’s heart of him.

Dighis are square or circular reservoirs used to store water for personal use. The water is supplied to the dighis by the canal and each dighi has its own sluice gate.

The aging process has continued to spread (Figures 2.22-2.24). Using 7 percent as the standard to define an aging population (Sheng, 1997; United Nations, 1956), in 1963 only one township, Luchu, Taoyuan hsien, qualified as an old or aging area.

Many of the so-called rites of these secret societies were so patently ridiculous, that it is quite obvious that they were merely an excuse for men and women to indulge in sex-play and lustful gratification, frequently of an abnormal kind.