Up the Yang-tsePrinted at the "China Mail" Office, 1891 - 308 trang |
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appearance bamboo bend Blakiston's boat boatmen breeze bridge called candareens cash the catty Ch'ang Ch'i Ch'iao Ch'ung-k'ing channel Chên Chinese Chou River coal coolies cotton crossed dangerous descend District Downward junks east feet Fu Chou Fu-shun gorge Hankow hawser Hien high water highest water hills Hoh Chou I-ch'ang journey K'i-kiang K'ou K'wei-chou Kiang Kung-t'an Kwan-yin Kwei Chou land land-tax left bank loads look low water lower Lung-ch'ang maize market-town metres mid-water miles Ming Dynasty moor mountain Nan-ch'uan Nan-pu opium ounces P'ing paddy paddy-fields Pao-ning passed picul poppy rapid rice ridge right bank road rocks rope round runs salt Sha-shih Shan Shê-hung Shen Si Shih shui Shun-k'ing side silk sort stone stream Sz Ch'uan T'an T'ang t'ung tobacco town travelling trees Ts'ao Tsz-liu Ching Tung turned upward junks vernicia village wheel whilst Yang-tsz Yung-ch'uan
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Trang 96 - ... 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 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...
Trang 80 - ... 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 of a large bread roller. This roller is the axletree of a six-spoked wheel about 2J^ feet in diameter. There...
Trang 126 - ... reaches the upper circumference of the wheel. But a bamboo channel is erected on a framework so as to catch this flow, and two other bamboo tubes or lengths of tube communicate at right-angles with the two ends of this channel, and, slightly declining, carry the water to the fields above. I have a vague recollection of having seen something of the sort at the Taku salt flats, but there I think the wheels were propelled by sails. The barometer marked 73.20 in the hotel at which I lodged. It had...
Trang 81 - 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 96 - 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 (lu-tuu, or shai-tsz) which is kept in a warm place.
Trang 95 - 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...
Trang 126 - ... 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 120 - The seeds are sown in the spring, but need not be renewed. All that is necessary is that the stumps be each year covered over with cow-dung after the stalks have been cut or broken off. The first and best crop, [t'ou-fa], is gathered about the end of the year ; the second in the 3rd moon ; and the third in the 6th or 7th moon. It is considered better to tear off the stalks than to cut them ; but, as this method is slower and more troublesome, it is not in use amongst the larger growers. The outer...
Trang 96 - Kwo-p'Sn" is used to indicate silk which has undergone more than one washing, or in the washing of which more than one pan or basin is used. All silk must pass through at least one basin of water, so that the definition, given by the delegates, of "Kopun, so called from its passing through the basin in reeling
Trang 80 - ... In the middle, running parallel with the long side of the frame and equidistant from each of the short sides, is a treadle about 2 feet long and 6 inches broad, like a double pedal of a piano. 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...