China in Miniature: Containing Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, Character, and Costumes of the People of that Empire : with Sixteen Colored EngravingsCarter, Hendee, and Company, 1833 - 127 Seiten |
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Seite 56 - The feast of lanterns is universal throughout the whole empire, and all China is illuminated on the same day and hour. Every city and village, the shores of the sea, and the banks of the rivers, are hung with lanterns of various shapes and sizes: Some of them are seen in courts, and in the windows of the poorest inhabitants. Rich...
Seite 123 - Chun-chee, the founder of the present dynasty, sacrificed thirty slaves at the tomb of a favourite wife. If the deceased was a grandee of the empire, a certain number of Ms relations never leave the tomb for a month or two.
Seite 49 - ... breast, over one shoulder and under the other arm. Thus harnessed, they walk forward in a leaning posture, pulling at the end of a rope, the other extremity of which is fastened to the mast-head of the vessel. Where there are not persons who make an occupation of tracking, or when an extraordinary number is required, the officers of government impress poor people wherever they find them, for one day's journey, and to have them ready on the arrival of a fleet, they sometimes confine them for a...
Seite 117 - ... it is punished with death. Deficiency in proper filial respect to a father, mother, grandfather or grandmother, is punished with one hundred blows of the pan-tse. Abusive language to these relations, is death by strangling; to strike them, is punished by beheading ; and if any one presumes to hurt or maim them, his flesh is torn from his bones with red-hot pincers, and he is cut into a thousand pieces. Abusing an elder brother is punished with one hundred blows of the pan-tse ; striking him,...
Seite 113 - The following story, though it wears somewhat of an air of fiction, is too characteristic to be omitted : — A man of forty, who had a very passionate mother, frequently received from her a sound beating, which he bore with exemplary patience. So much the more was a friend of his astonished one day, when he found him after one of these drubbings, dissolved in tears and quite inconsolable. "What...
Seite 111 - The affair was discovered : Loo-nankin was imprisoned, and preparations were making for his trial, when his younger brother came forward. " It is I who harboured the fugitive," said he to the judge ; " of course I ought to die and not my brother.
Seite 55 - Chinese lanterns are frequently made of paper or gauze, but more commonly of horn, so thin and transparent, that at first sight it might be mistaken for glass. Each lantern consists apparently of one piece of horn, the junctures being so nicely formed, by means of boiling water, as to be imperceptible.
Seite 121 - The tombs of the rich are shaped like a horse-shoe- well whitened and finished with great taste, but those of the mandarins and people of quality are much more sumptuous and elegant. A vault is first constructed, in which the coffin is shut up : over this vault is raised a pyramid of earth, well beaten together, about twelve...
Seite 71 - ... middling classes live chiefly upon rice and on pork, which we found the best meat in China ; horse-flesh is eaten by the Tartars, and is sold in the markets at a higher price than beef. It has been justly remarked by some writer, that it would be much more difficult to say what the lower class of Chinese do not, than what they do eat. Dogs, cats, and rats, are exposed for sale in the markets, and eaten by those who can afford to purchase other food. In a shop at Ta-tung, the same price, about...
Seite 53 - He nevertheless made this eclipse a pretext for deferring his abdication. SEAMSTRESS. The seamstresses of China carry on their profession in a much humbler way than the dress-makers of Europe : on the other hand, their business is much sooner learned and they are liable to fewer vicissitudes. * The persons of this class are in general obliged to trudge about the streets, carrying in a basket all the requisites for their profession, as represented in the engraving, till some one who needs their services...