Up the Yang-tsePrinted at the "China Mail" Office, 1891 - 308 trang |
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Trang 59 - After a month, again, the insects begin to make nests on the stalks, (shang chia), form an egg around themselves, and begin to disgorge silk. As soon as they cease to move, they are removed from the branch. A certain number of insects are allowed to live in order to produce eggs for the succeeding year. The grub comes out of the cocoon in the fourth moon, and lays its eggs upon sheets of paper provided for that purpose. These sheets are carefully placed in boxes, and hung up in a dry place in the...
Trang 59 - The fabric made from the wild silk, or ehan-sz, is also called ke-ta ch'ou, from the lumps and nodules which are found in its coarse texture. The newly-hatched grubs must be fed daily with clipped leaves, and the leaves must be changed three times a-day. There must be no lime or dirt upon them, and they should be carefully wiped with a damp kerchief. Everything near the insects must be kept scrupulously clean. After ten days, they have grown to the size of a caterpillar, and developed their eight...
Trang 47 - The bird is really nothing more than a small crank. At intervals of four inches apart in the lath, are affixed tiny crutches about four inches high, having tops or hooks not more than an inch across. Through these tops the thread is made to run before it is attached to the large wheel ; and as the tops move two or three inches from side to side in a direction across the felloe of the wheel, and parallel with its axle, of course the thread never remains in a straight line but is wound slightly diagonally.
Trang 59 - On the arrival of the solar term ching chih, or 'movement of larvae,' about March the 5th, the sheets of eggs are taken out of the boxes, and carried about in the hat or bosom, or placed among the bed-clothes in order to be hatched. Sometimes they are placed, instead, in a sort of large basket or sieve (lo-tou, or shui-tsz) which is kept in a warm place.
Trang 59 - hard silk,' and none of it is found in Pao-ning or Shun-k'ing. The insects which produce the wild silk of Kwei Chou are fed on the young leaves of the Ch'ing Kang, a species of Quercus. These two trees must therefore be closely allied. In Kwei Chou, however, the insects are more often fed upon the tree than in the house, and the silk also is reeled off the insects as they are settled on the tree. The fabric made from the wild silk, or shan-sz, is also called ke-ta ch'ou, from the lumps and nodules...
Trang 58 - The line silk, however, comes in larger quantities from Shun-k'ing and Pao-ning, where the yellow cocoons yield a thicker thread. The value of the combined production of the two latter prefectures is estimated by competent native authorities at from one million to one million and a half of taels a year, against from two to three millions for...
Trang 76 - ... engineering I have as yet seen in China. They are in the shape of enormous but lightly constructed wheels, some of them between 30 and 40 feet in diameter. The paddles are of matting, and are propelled by the force of the current. Between each pair of paddles, and running diagonally across the...
Trang 46 - A womau sits on one bar of a very simple oblong frame, just wide enough to contain her legs, and allow free movement. In the middle, running parallel with the long side of the frame, and equidistant from each of the short sides, is a treadle, about two feet long, and 6 inches broad, like a double pedal of a piano. Through the middle of this treadle runs a stick about three feet high, and as the woman plays with each foot, or rather each shod stump, upon the two sides of the treadle one after the...
Trang 46 - At the other end of this last-named stick is fastened the outer end of a zigzag piece oi wood, or an iron crank, the inner end of which fits into a wooden roller about the size of a large bread roller. This roller is the axle-tree of a six-spoked wheel about two and a half feet in diameter. There is a double row of spokes, that is, six running out of each end of the axle, and each spoke is connected with the one opposite to it by a stick, these six sticks forming, so to speak, the felloe or tire...
Trang 46 - Through the middle of this treadle runs a stick about 3 feet high, and, as the woman plays with each foot upon the two sides of the treadle one after the other, of course the stick wags from side to side. To the top of the stick is affixed another stick about half as long as the frame and running parallel with its long side. At the other end of this last-named stick is fastened the outer end of a zig-zag piece of wood or an iron crank, the inner end of which fits into a wooden roller "about the size...