How similar the music in the Chinese wedding banquet hall
is to that in the Funeral parlour hall
The fast number of gongs and trumpet fit harmoniously to both
The bride and groom leading their trains of relatives to the conversationless guests
making rounds and rounds of toasts
and the taoist sifu leading his disciples doing their round of dance round a basin of fire
with his wooden sword to break open the gate to hell
and when the slow number is played
and everybody is back to their place
that 's when the sifu can rest in his lotus seat
and the bride and groom can sit and have some eat