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GENERAL
YUNNAN IS CHINA'S
LAND OF PROMISE
(Continued from Fage 7) -
Its situation is in the centre of Being neither handicraftsmen. a spačiona plain, bounded on each traders or shopkeepers, the ma side by vast ramparts of moun- jority of them are miserably poor. tains. The plain itself is 7,500 m. Many are the serfa of the No-Su above sea level, and the mountains barona. are a continuation of the mighty
Miao women wear no headdress, Himalaya range. Existence 15 but they have distinctive ways of from hand to mouth, and "when doing their hair. The younger the harvest has been good there ones mix it with wool and wind is general rejoicing. But if the it in great clusters round their rains fall and crops are poor then ears. The mother wind it into a the situation is serious indeed. striking looking cone on the top because communications with of the head, which of course, other areas are so difficult. I lived makes the wearing of a hat 'im- through one famine and the ex-possible-even our modem ones. perience was so terrible that one The men are dulled huntery, and has no desire to talk about it.
FIRST HOSPITAL
will track animals, such as the wild boar and dear, with great keenness. They also use the cross- pro-bow very cleverly, and often poison
the tips of their --arrows with preparation of deadly "nightshade.
The first hospital in the vince was established in this city. and its modern successor a noble building-has recently been open- ed. The first schools were like wise bullt at Chao-Tung, both for girls and boys. The girls school was a very courageous venture. because it was started at a time when education for girls was not as popular in China as it is to day.
Both schools have done fine work, and for many years, Chinese No Su, and Miao students, have Ilved and worked in them side by side. Those who know the tradi- tions of these people know how remarkable that is.
Practically all the Chinese women still have the bound foot but the girls are free from this horrible business, and are able to take part in games as vigorously as the boys.
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The arts of Migo Hfe are very few, and their implements are copied from the Chinese.
For mutual protection they live in villages, and their houses are mud built, and are thatched with grass. They are a
warm hearted and
friendly people, and they salute one another with great cordiality. Me greet men, and wonen, women" by rubbing one anothers' left shoulder, and asking-Dieb zów míoh gloh—Are you well?
WONDERFUL HOSPITALITY
They are wonderfully hos- pitable and will alwayS short themselves so that their visitors be treated generously. They are no lovers of fighting: they are inclined-by nature to be thriftless; they are simple and honest and loveable. the
I have the happiest of memories generous,
of my life among the Chao-Tung One of the child races of
They are great story people. I taught in their schools world. ---preached to them played all tellers, and their legends and folk their games with them; especially lore are a great delight,
football and tennis. And I wonder The have suffered more deeply what the future has in store for than I could ever indicate. They them Throughout the centuries bave been persecuted and down- there have been few changes, and trodden by their more powerful there is something delightfully neighbour for many years. And a simple and unsophisticated and time came, when their own morale loveable about these people who snapped, and they sank terribly have lived their lives with so few low..
contacts with the outside world.
Now the changes are coming with
REV. POLLARD: A GENIUS
a rush the courtyard of the main But during the last decade. temple is already an aerodroma-amazing things have happened in What will it all mean?--I wonder: Maoland. The Rev. 8. "Pollard I have already intimated that was the great leader of the move- West Country Chao-Tung in the jumping of ment. He was a place --for the border country, genlus, who gave his Me to the where the Tribespeople live. Le Mac people, and then gave it for me tell you something about the them, and whose, tomb is now No-Su people.. They are tall, sacred ground, and a place of
featured strong, straight
pilgrimage. "I wish that you could see what I have seen, but that is farist.. Probably they Tibetan extraction. They are dia story for another time and place, These people now have their vided into two main categories, namely The Black No-Su; and schools-their hospital and num- The White No-Su. They have bers of delightful village chapels lived under a feudal system which And on yon far hills, long cold and atill persists in diminished form grey has dawned the everlasting The Black No-Bu are the Baron
day, after a night which was dark Indeed. and overlords, while the White No-Bu are the tenants.
and of аге
They have no arts and few in- dustries. They are a race of war-
SPEAKER THANKED
Professor Forster said his only
riors, and a No-Bu's first desire is qualification to all the role of the for a horse and rifle. They are Speaker's thanker was that he had been up in that district himself. astounding "borsemen, The great
One of the compensations of the chiefs build strong fortresses -on the tops of the hills, from whence present dreadful war would be, he they sally forth to attack their thought, the opening up of that delightful area of Yunnan, and enemies; or in which they them the distribution of modern" ideas selves are besieged. Fighting is in their blood, and they hand down feuds of almost forgotten origin.
These people don't wear their hearts" on their sleeves but once
their loyalty and affection has been won, it is very durable..... A fine educational, medical, and up- Dfting work "is going on among them, with very definite results. It is also worthy of note that the; present governor of the Province in a No-Bu man, as also is one of their most distinguished generals:
.
THE MIAO TRIBE
which had hitherto been congre- gated only in places like Hong- kong, Canton and Nanking,
"Ín Yunnari to-day they bad.. the nucleus of universities
from Peking-there had been a driving of thin, scholars into Szechuan, Kwelchow and Yun- nan. In this, respect it WAR comparable with the sacking of Constantinople: In the Middle Ares, and the driving of scho- lars into Western Europe which had produced the Renaissance. He anticipated that Yumnan would no longer, in the near
And now let we say something future, be regarded as an inacces- about another fascinating group of sible region. Striking progréas had been made, even during the Tribes people, who are known a the Miao. There is a patch of last year.a
of the members of some 50,000 Flowery Mino, a they are called, in NE Yunnan, and the Club he thanked the speaker.
On behalf
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N.W. Kwelchow, This clan is so "named because their tribal cos- tumes are so colourful There are also clans of Black Mlao; and of River Miao, But the Flowery Miao Mrs. Florence Annie Smith, who are the people I know best,
died at the Royal Victoria and The Mino are yellow skinned West, Hants Hospital, Bournemouth, Hants, on November 8, 1988, felt and broadnosed. They are of local estate sworn under $5,000, short stature and have straight an application by Mr. H. J. Arm black hair. All are agriculturalists and grow their own food stats. Strong solicitor, for sealing certified copy of the probate of the will has
Their daily meal consists of been granted.
steamed
wheat-make-millet, .02
buckwheat, and vegetables. They have meat not more than once a
month. They cannot afford is The temperature remained high Maze, cooked in Miao fashion yesterday, the maximum reaching tastes something like steamed saw-07 degrees, the minimum being 60. dust, but they seem to like 16, and Humidity was 18 at 10 o'clock in the thrive on
morning:
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