Show Rice at Weddings Tho Chinese have a curious legend as to how the custom of throwing rice nt weddings originated A famous sorcerer sor-cerer named Chao became jealous of tho power of another sorcerer a woman wom-an and conceiving a plan to destroy her he persuaded her parents to bestow be-stow her upon his supposed son The crafty Choa chose the most unlucky day for tho wedding tho day when tho Golden Pheasant was in tho ascendant as-cendant so that when the bride en tored the red chair the spirit bird would destroy her with his powerful beak But Peach Blossom gave directions di-rections to have rice thrown out at tho door and she passed out unharmed un-harmed while the spirit bird was devouring de-vouring it |