Assignment #3: Concordancer Exercise

1.    What are more than ten women doing in the temple, not sleeping but deftly tying the dumplings?

2.    According to the custom of Taiwan and southern Fukien, families in mourning are not supposed to make nien-kao or tzung-tzu for the holidays, but they can be given some as a present by their neighbors.

3.    At festival times, they add chicken, onions, tomatoes and spices to the corn flour, wrapping it all up in banana leaves to create an Indian version of the Chinese "zong-zi," a sticky rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves.

4.    "I've waited eleven years!" said Mr. Chen, who lives in Kaohsiung, as he viewed the scenery and ate his tsung tzu (a large dumpling of glutinous rice).
He waited from his youth until middle age to fulfill one wish, to complete this railroad journey.

5.    To pay off a debt of NT$1 million to a cooperative loan club, these women sell rice dumplings and give the proceeds to the club; this money is then used to do good deeds.
The club was started up and is led by Chen Chou, head of Yuching Temple's Lianghsien Hall.