The face of China, travels in East, North, Central and Western China; with some account of the new schools, universities, missions, and the old religious sacred places of Confucianism, Buddhism, and (14592979929)

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Title: The face of China, travels in East, North, Central and Western China; with some account of the new schools, universities, missions, and the old religious sacred places of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Kemp, Emily Georgiana, 1860-
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Publisher: New York, Duffield
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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much amused by inspecting a river-bank village.The whole of it is built of the most flimsy materials,and put together so lightly that it can be taken downand moved to another spot at the shortest possiblenotice, according to the height of the river. Eventhe gods shrine is thoroughly perambulatory, andis dedicated to the god of the earth. Many of theshanties are lofty ere£tions, but the walls and roofsconsist entirely of mats hung on to poles, which aremerely tied together and stuck into the ground.There was quite a good village street, containing abarbers shop, a butchers, a drapers (where mostattractive wadded quilts made quite a goodly show),a chemists, greengrocers, &c. There were several delightful restaurants, withpretty bowls and natty cooking arrangements, whichmade us long to purchase and experiment with theminstead of using our primitive stove, where my breadrefused to rise, though I never failed with it at home.So far, it can only be considered successful for making 140
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ch. xiii On the Yangtze poultices, but we eat a little of it daily, as thereis no sort of bread which we should find palatablein this part of the empire. The counters of therestaurants had many tempting dainties displayedupon them, especially tiny saucers full of relishes ;among them we saw several Escoffier sauce bottles,but no doubt the original contents had disappearedlong ago ! The women of the place seemed nice and friendlyand clean, and were dressed in the gayest colours ofthe rainbow; green, scarlet, blue, and black was quitean ordinary combination on one person. They weartight wadded trousers to just below the knee, andfrom there to the ankle the leg is neatly bound.Often the legs are very thin, and look like sticks,while the out-turned tiny feet and stiff knees allcombine to give the appearance of goats legs. WhileI was sketching the little shrine one came and stoodbeside it, with a very evident desire to be included inthe sketch. I at once took advantage of this unusualoccur