[363]As taxes.return to text[364]Visitors to Peking may often see the junkmen at T‘ung-chow pouring water by the bucketful on to newly-arrived cargoes of Imperial rice in order to make up the right weight and conceal the amount they have filched on the way.return to text[365]That is, with a false gloss on them.return to text[366]In order to raise to nap and give an appearance of strength and goodness.return to text[367]Costermongers and others acquire certain rights to doorsteps or snug corners in Chinese cities which are not usually infringed by competitors in the same line of business. Chair-coolies, carrying-coolies, ferrymen,&c., also claim whole districts as their particular field of operations and are very jealous of any interference. I know of a case in which the right of “scavengering” a town had been in the same family for generations, and no one dreamt of trying to take it out of their hands.return to text[368]Chiefly alluding to small temples where some pious spirit may have lighted a lamp or candle to the glory of his favourite P‘u-sa.return to text[369]This is done either by making a figure of the person to be injured and burning it in a slow fire, like the old practice of the wax figure in English history; or by obtaining his nativity characters, writing them out on a piece of paper and burning them in a candle, muttering all the time whatsoever mischief it is hoped will befall him.return to text[370]Popularly known as the Chinese Pluto. The IndianYama.return to text[371]The celebrated “See-one’s-home Terrace.”return to text[372]Regarded by the Chinese with intense disgust.return to text[373]Father’s, mother’s, and wife’s families.return to text[374]I know of few more pathetic passages throughout all the exquisite imagery of the Divine Comedy than this in which the guilty soul is supposed to look back to the home he has but lately left and gaze in bitter anguish on his desolate hearth and broken household gods. For once the gross tortures of Chinese Purgatory give place to as refined and as dreadful a punishment as human ingenuity could well devise.return to text[375]A long pole tipped with a kind of birdlime is cautiously inserted between the branches of a tree, and then suddenly dabbed on to some unsuspecting sparrow.return to text[376]If this is done in Winter or Spring the Spirits of the Hearth and Threshold are liable to catch cold.return to text[377]I presume because God sits with his face to the south.return to text[378]Pious and wealthy people often give orders for an image of a certain P‘u-sa to be made with an ounce or so of gold inside.return to text[379]Primarily, because no living thing should be killed for food. The ox and the dog are specified because of their kindly services to man in tilling the earth and guarding his home.return to text[380]The symbol of the Yin and the Yang, so ably and so poetically explained by Mr. Alabaster in his pamphlet on the Doctrine of the Ch‘i.return to text[381]One being male and the other being female. This calls to mind the extreme modesty of a celebrated French lady, who would not put books by male and female authors on the same shelf.return to footnote 134return to footnote anchor 381[382]The symbol on Buddha’s heart; more commonly known to the western world as Thor’s Hammer.return to text[383]Emblems of Imperial dignity.return to text[384]Supposed to confer immortality.return to text[385]Unfit for translation.return to text[386]This is ingeniously expressed, as ifmotherswere the prime movers in such unnatural acts.return to text[387]On fête days at temples it is not uncommon to see cages full of birds hawked about among the holiday-makers, that those who feel twinges of conscience may purchase a sparrow or two and relieve themselves from anxiety by the simple means of setting them at liberty.return to text[388]Bones are used in glazing porcelain, to give a higher finish.return to text[389]The seven periods of seven days each which occur immediately after a death and at which the departed shade is appeased with food and offerings of various kinds.return to text[390]To warm them.return to text[391]When they are born again on earth.return to text[392]Heart, lungs, spleen, liver, and kidneys.return to text[393]Many millions of years.return to text[394]The following recipe for this deadly poison is given in the well-known Chinese workInstructions to Coroners:—“Take a quantity of insects of all kinds and throw them into a vessel of any kind; cover them up, and let a year pass away before you look at them again. The insects will have killed and eaten each other, until there is only one survivor, and this one isKu.”return to text[395]He who “turns the wheel;” achakravartti raja.return to text[396]The capital city of the Infernal Regions.return to text[397]The ghosts of dead people are believed to be liable to death. The ghost of a ghost is calledchien.return to text[398]On the “Three Systems.” Seenote 347,Appendix.return to text[399]Women are considered in China to be far more revengeful than men.return to text[400]SeeAuthor’s Own Record(inIntroduction),note 28.return to text[401]While in Purgatory.return to text[402]It was mentioned above that the rewards for virtue would be continued to a man’s sons and grandsons.return to text[403]That is, go to heaven.return to text[404]Of meat, wine,&c.return to text
[363]As taxes.return to text
[363]As taxes.return to text
[364]Visitors to Peking may often see the junkmen at T‘ung-chow pouring water by the bucketful on to newly-arrived cargoes of Imperial rice in order to make up the right weight and conceal the amount they have filched on the way.return to text
[364]Visitors to Peking may often see the junkmen at T‘ung-chow pouring water by the bucketful on to newly-arrived cargoes of Imperial rice in order to make up the right weight and conceal the amount they have filched on the way.return to text
[365]That is, with a false gloss on them.return to text
[365]That is, with a false gloss on them.return to text
[366]In order to raise to nap and give an appearance of strength and goodness.return to text
[366]In order to raise to nap and give an appearance of strength and goodness.return to text
[367]Costermongers and others acquire certain rights to doorsteps or snug corners in Chinese cities which are not usually infringed by competitors in the same line of business. Chair-coolies, carrying-coolies, ferrymen,&c., also claim whole districts as their particular field of operations and are very jealous of any interference. I know of a case in which the right of “scavengering” a town had been in the same family for generations, and no one dreamt of trying to take it out of their hands.return to text
[367]Costermongers and others acquire certain rights to doorsteps or snug corners in Chinese cities which are not usually infringed by competitors in the same line of business. Chair-coolies, carrying-coolies, ferrymen,&c., also claim whole districts as their particular field of operations and are very jealous of any interference. I know of a case in which the right of “scavengering” a town had been in the same family for generations, and no one dreamt of trying to take it out of their hands.return to text
[368]Chiefly alluding to small temples where some pious spirit may have lighted a lamp or candle to the glory of his favourite P‘u-sa.return to text
[368]Chiefly alluding to small temples where some pious spirit may have lighted a lamp or candle to the glory of his favourite P‘u-sa.return to text
[369]This is done either by making a figure of the person to be injured and burning it in a slow fire, like the old practice of the wax figure in English history; or by obtaining his nativity characters, writing them out on a piece of paper and burning them in a candle, muttering all the time whatsoever mischief it is hoped will befall him.return to text
[369]This is done either by making a figure of the person to be injured and burning it in a slow fire, like the old practice of the wax figure in English history; or by obtaining his nativity characters, writing them out on a piece of paper and burning them in a candle, muttering all the time whatsoever mischief it is hoped will befall him.return to text
[370]Popularly known as the Chinese Pluto. The IndianYama.return to text
[370]Popularly known as the Chinese Pluto. The IndianYama.return to text
[371]The celebrated “See-one’s-home Terrace.”return to text
[371]The celebrated “See-one’s-home Terrace.”return to text
[372]Regarded by the Chinese with intense disgust.return to text
[372]Regarded by the Chinese with intense disgust.return to text
[373]Father’s, mother’s, and wife’s families.return to text
[373]Father’s, mother’s, and wife’s families.return to text
[374]I know of few more pathetic passages throughout all the exquisite imagery of the Divine Comedy than this in which the guilty soul is supposed to look back to the home he has but lately left and gaze in bitter anguish on his desolate hearth and broken household gods. For once the gross tortures of Chinese Purgatory give place to as refined and as dreadful a punishment as human ingenuity could well devise.return to text
[374]I know of few more pathetic passages throughout all the exquisite imagery of the Divine Comedy than this in which the guilty soul is supposed to look back to the home he has but lately left and gaze in bitter anguish on his desolate hearth and broken household gods. For once the gross tortures of Chinese Purgatory give place to as refined and as dreadful a punishment as human ingenuity could well devise.return to text
[375]A long pole tipped with a kind of birdlime is cautiously inserted between the branches of a tree, and then suddenly dabbed on to some unsuspecting sparrow.return to text
[375]A long pole tipped with a kind of birdlime is cautiously inserted between the branches of a tree, and then suddenly dabbed on to some unsuspecting sparrow.return to text
[376]If this is done in Winter or Spring the Spirits of the Hearth and Threshold are liable to catch cold.return to text
[376]If this is done in Winter or Spring the Spirits of the Hearth and Threshold are liable to catch cold.return to text
[377]I presume because God sits with his face to the south.return to text
[377]I presume because God sits with his face to the south.return to text
[378]Pious and wealthy people often give orders for an image of a certain P‘u-sa to be made with an ounce or so of gold inside.return to text
[378]Pious and wealthy people often give orders for an image of a certain P‘u-sa to be made with an ounce or so of gold inside.return to text
[379]Primarily, because no living thing should be killed for food. The ox and the dog are specified because of their kindly services to man in tilling the earth and guarding his home.return to text
[379]Primarily, because no living thing should be killed for food. The ox and the dog are specified because of their kindly services to man in tilling the earth and guarding his home.return to text
[380]The symbol of the Yin and the Yang, so ably and so poetically explained by Mr. Alabaster in his pamphlet on the Doctrine of the Ch‘i.return to text
[380]The symbol of the Yin and the Yang, so ably and so poetically explained by Mr. Alabaster in his pamphlet on the Doctrine of the Ch‘i.return to text
[381]One being male and the other being female. This calls to mind the extreme modesty of a celebrated French lady, who would not put books by male and female authors on the same shelf.return to footnote 134return to footnote anchor 381
[381]One being male and the other being female. This calls to mind the extreme modesty of a celebrated French lady, who would not put books by male and female authors on the same shelf.return to footnote 134return to footnote anchor 381
[382]The symbol on Buddha’s heart; more commonly known to the western world as Thor’s Hammer.return to text
[382]The symbol on Buddha’s heart; more commonly known to the western world as Thor’s Hammer.return to text
[383]Emblems of Imperial dignity.return to text
[383]Emblems of Imperial dignity.return to text
[384]Supposed to confer immortality.return to text
[384]Supposed to confer immortality.return to text
[385]Unfit for translation.return to text
[385]Unfit for translation.return to text
[386]This is ingeniously expressed, as ifmotherswere the prime movers in such unnatural acts.return to text
[386]This is ingeniously expressed, as ifmotherswere the prime movers in such unnatural acts.return to text
[387]On fête days at temples it is not uncommon to see cages full of birds hawked about among the holiday-makers, that those who feel twinges of conscience may purchase a sparrow or two and relieve themselves from anxiety by the simple means of setting them at liberty.return to text
[387]On fête days at temples it is not uncommon to see cages full of birds hawked about among the holiday-makers, that those who feel twinges of conscience may purchase a sparrow or two and relieve themselves from anxiety by the simple means of setting them at liberty.return to text
[388]Bones are used in glazing porcelain, to give a higher finish.return to text
[388]Bones are used in glazing porcelain, to give a higher finish.return to text
[389]The seven periods of seven days each which occur immediately after a death and at which the departed shade is appeased with food and offerings of various kinds.return to text
[389]The seven periods of seven days each which occur immediately after a death and at which the departed shade is appeased with food and offerings of various kinds.return to text
[390]To warm them.return to text
[390]To warm them.return to text
[391]When they are born again on earth.return to text
[391]When they are born again on earth.return to text
[392]Heart, lungs, spleen, liver, and kidneys.return to text
[392]Heart, lungs, spleen, liver, and kidneys.return to text
[393]Many millions of years.return to text
[393]Many millions of years.return to text
[394]The following recipe for this deadly poison is given in the well-known Chinese workInstructions to Coroners:—“Take a quantity of insects of all kinds and throw them into a vessel of any kind; cover them up, and let a year pass away before you look at them again. The insects will have killed and eaten each other, until there is only one survivor, and this one isKu.”return to text
[394]The following recipe for this deadly poison is given in the well-known Chinese workInstructions to Coroners:—“Take a quantity of insects of all kinds and throw them into a vessel of any kind; cover them up, and let a year pass away before you look at them again. The insects will have killed and eaten each other, until there is only one survivor, and this one isKu.”return to text
[395]He who “turns the wheel;” achakravartti raja.return to text
[395]He who “turns the wheel;” achakravartti raja.return to text
[396]The capital city of the Infernal Regions.return to text
[396]The capital city of the Infernal Regions.return to text
[397]The ghosts of dead people are believed to be liable to death. The ghost of a ghost is calledchien.return to text
[397]The ghosts of dead people are believed to be liable to death. The ghost of a ghost is calledchien.return to text
[398]On the “Three Systems.” Seenote 347,Appendix.return to text
[398]On the “Three Systems.” Seenote 347,Appendix.return to text
[399]Women are considered in China to be far more revengeful than men.return to text
[399]Women are considered in China to be far more revengeful than men.return to text
[400]SeeAuthor’s Own Record(inIntroduction),note 28.return to text
[400]SeeAuthor’s Own Record(inIntroduction),note 28.return to text
[401]While in Purgatory.return to text
[401]While in Purgatory.return to text
[402]It was mentioned above that the rewards for virtue would be continued to a man’s sons and grandsons.return to text
[402]It was mentioned above that the rewards for virtue would be continued to a man’s sons and grandsons.return to text
[403]That is, go to heaven.return to text
[403]That is, go to heaven.return to text
[404]Of meat, wine,&c.return to text
[404]Of meat, wine,&c.return to text