20250824 Jocelyn Commemorative
Ching Lum Shee From Shanghai to Hawaii with "Golden Lotus" Feet 1887-1968 Ching Lum Shee, Ching Chow's wife, whose maiden name was Lum Yuk Ip, was born in Namlong Village, Dai Chay Hamlet in Kwangtung Province, China. Her father, Lum Tai Gung, had a steel factory in Shanghai and was a prosperous ship merchant. He had three wives. The first wife had no children and died young. The second wife had two sons and four daughters, the fourth being Lum Yuk Ip (Ching Lum Shee). He married a third wife to take care of his mother when his father died. She had two boys. The family lived in Shanghai but her mother commuted to the village in Namlong whenever she gave birth so that she would have adequate help. Additionally, new mothers were placed on a strict diet of chicken soup cooked with wood fungus, ginger root, and rice wine and sweet-sour pigs' feet wi...
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