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tence of dragons is perhaps just as real as the most prosaic facts of our daily living. To them, moreover, the countless hosts of saurian creatures are such positive on- tities that they are venerated and credited with exerting great influence on the course of human events. Conse- quently, one finds throughout all portions of China, a wealth of folklore and superstitious practice coupled with the boundless respect paid to the dragon; for unlike the people of the West, who consider the dragon to be a monster and an omen of evil, the Chinese regard it as a unique member of the animal kingdom esteemed for its as a symbol of the greatest good amiable qualities and fortune.
Dragons, of course, are of tongue". This is used in the divers kinds, and the Chinese Chinese pharmacopoeia as themselves divide them into five remedy in the treatment of species, which they commonly coughs. The leaves are boiled mat-ta'o or "native classify as follows: "If they with have scales like that of a carp, jujubes" and hang-pan or "al- they are called kaou-lung: If monds" and the resultant infu- they have wings, they are known slon taken as a sort of medicinal as ying-lung: if they possess ten.
A few other instances of the horns like that of a deer, they are termed 'au-lung: if they occurrence of the word for dra-|
are gon in common speech may be are without horns, they referred to as ch'i-dung; and if noticed as follows: heaven they are designated as delight of so many local florists
All of these crea- is known in the vernacular as May 19th-Up betimes and my Fa noon I doe hold myselfe very tem- poon-lung.
"the resemble one another in lung-t'o-chue tures
pearl Wong being come to my office and perately as this evening wee must tells me of my vegetable garden play and I would not lose my words. n glasse or twu appearance; with of course, the which has been spewed up by where I learn my Indian corn bee Still I did drink and did agree
The and the dragon.” exceptions noted above,
morning pretty strong-grown and as usual with Mr. Coldbeck
that had the
been going
dry their general description as de- glory or convolvulus is another the cucumbers and arrows ariol
I enre but Strathroy might well have won. As tailed by Chinese authors seems good example. It is often re- For these last however
It was, I doubted before that the little they being very poor and
frull, and
weight would prove too much and to partake more of a pot-pourri ferred to by the Chinese gar-little
Courting was minded to wager upon Eve, but like a fool I did let it ntone, and so it paid thirty florins. Back to the Clubbe where I doc bathe and trim myselfe and drink and eat a mossel in the Red Room
great crowd. 22nd-(Lord's Day.) and so to the play where there is
Hongkong Telegraph they have not yet ascended into
SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1938.
CHINA'S FOE AROUSED
into the adventures.
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is
The clerodendron which in the
HONGKONG
of various animal characteristics dener 113 ty-chaun-kami-lung insipid in their
minded to have them up to lime the
Prominent Word in Every Day Phrases
¿
Scaly Creatures
time
wee
the shock, which indeed it doth And the Bft being I must needs walk to my
out to be a war of huge propo examples taken at random from said to differ from the other five. Iwee had not had since the one of
a
City Watch have done good work.
ainm
the
they may There is not much doubt now suggestive of the visions of an meaning the "five clawed goiden sull. But for
Hebrew prophet than dragon.'
rest, there being much overgrown about the predominance of the ancient
stuff to dig out and lime there first. Another botanical term may | And I am minded it would doe me nava! and military influence in that of the statements of
dig myself. Busy at Japan. The renovated Cabinet impartial scholar. Imagine
creature which is soberly stated be mentioned as a final example, little i did
Creed of this with where I talk
Lust night has the appearance of a sort of to have the "head of u camel, and this is the name quite often my papers and after at the Clubbe
And high staff organisation rather the eyes of a rabbit, the ears of applied to the French or kidney new crashe at Seletar whereby two
wee did play the last performance namely, lung-nga-tau men doc lose their lives.
of our play and as I doe afterwards than a political body. It a cow, the neck of a snake, the bean,
hear it said, the Company did their over many flying accidents in the scarcely a matter calling for belly of a frog, the claws of a which translated freely signifies are agreed that there seem to be
"the bean (which is shaped) ove
parts better than ever before. Straits, which Creed says is because criticism, however; for the deci-hawk, and the palm of a tiger”
the hot climate there doth make to the Gryps where wee doe see the But usual masse of sweating humanity- more alre pockets and bumps. sion has a quality of logic which and you have a composite de- like a dragon's tooth."
lineation of the appearance of a Ruter Of All The
of this I am not fully satisfied. To who doe belleve that they dance.
to God, our is characteristic of the Japanese Chinese dragon.
wee doe the But, praise bee
party the Playhouse where
verandah there play, and there I doc meet with a doth sit upon the | efficiency and is a natural enough
being a shirt and B
several pretty Ladles there and "much Tand The dragon is, according to mischance, and ruin
glasse one in the circumstances. Japan
merriment, and with my blood. But waistcoat has seen what she was pleased
the old Chinese notions of na- doubt not I could afford being let or two of strong waters maybe. By tural history, the ruler of all blood. Back to the Clubbe where myselfe on foot to the Clubbe and to call an "incident" develop It is interesting to mention
none spoke to mee, and it secras the most desperate of the hold that the word lung or scaly creatures, just as Man is now I sleepe and there u posset or
And this day I doe le late, it being two of the clock before my return, Never before has "dragon" has upon the masses chief of all naked animals. The two of strong waters to cure me of
and then pack my malls and send the nation been taxed as now: of the Chinese people. In fact, monarch of all the dragon tribe might well.
them to my house. But before I go I drink flaggon of ale with Mr. taxed physically, not monetarily, it occupies an exceptionally pro-, however, the shui-lung-wong stopped.
minent part in the vernacular er "water dragon king", which chamber, and so to bed.
corresponds in many ways to the
And we 20th-At nuncheon which I take Addis upon the Verandah. although in the latter sphere the phraseology of all sections of Neptune of western mythology, at the Clubbe Mr. Povy tells me that have both heard much anxious talk people are hard-pressed as well. The country. That this is and is worshipped and feared by the night before there had been a of the crowd of refugees that come
and throng be may
as from Amoy,
get more significant This incident, then, has turned pecially
fishermen. This regal species in great storm of thunder, such
our overcrowded Town. And wee instanced from a number of
that I think
agree that 1020. And Lord!
it were well that the which are familiar to tions. China, a very different
did sleep through it, or as near as poorer folk should bee placed in Cantonese:
through their representation in may bee, as I did presently recall 1
camps in the Territories where nation from that which bowed to
they will bee more healthful than "Deaf people are known as Chinese and Japanese art, in-had woken a minute and seemed to the Japanese will in 1932. has
already thronged lung-yan, from the character asmuch as its members possess hear a clap of thunder, but back thronging fought with a high courage and
fortuitous ideo- the bodies of men and the heads went to sleep again, which is most alleys of the city. As for the well- lung, itself u
Later I hear to-do, it is in my mind that they contrary to my habit. is still fighting with ferocity and
graphic combination formed of dragons. They are creatures much talk of this storm which, it should depart to their own country. the seems was at its worst over Mount But wee doe both agree there is like unshaken confidence despite the from the liaison of two separate which delight to lurk in
weather. Home to great inroads made upon her components one, signifying a depths of great rivers and seas Kellett where Mr. B. Brown's house to ben an epidemick of cholera come
is struck; and further on I learn it the hot territory by the army the "dragon" and the other, "ear" and like the fabled monster of strikes the Queen Mary Hospital at nuncheon where I find Mistress
Neus sometimes make Pokfulam, and all the bella put out Works and
her Lord, she being lately from hospital, but looking invader. And Japan has been expressing, of course, the idea Loch
of a person with ears like a their appearance to the amaze-of order, but none hurt.
blooming. I did spend all the day forced to reorganize in such dragon (which is incidentally ment of the credulous in-
thereafter in my house where I am way that the whole weight of popularly believed to be deaf)."
very content to bee again.
23rd-Reading in the newes-sheets her very considerable fighting
Further examples
but Lord! the mass of fond silly forces can be hurled at the stub enumerated from the vocabulary The Chinese rustics are prac-medical drugges sent out by the Red letters they doe print nigh turns my born Chinese
stomach. Very busy all day at my defenders. It of plants and flowers. One of tically unanimous in the affirma- Crasse and others have no
the
called tion that almost every
and all at a stonde how to herb
cove tifcates,
10 office. almost seems cause for the con- these is
Anon to the
takes 24th-Empire Day. This dawns gratulation of China that Japan | lung-lei-tip or "(the plant which along the coast is the abode of have them in order.
dragon's one or other of these fabled Races where a pretty Lady
her very foule and I must needs walk her nuncheon with mee and should have been forced to take has) leaves like
creatures, and that the pros-Lord comes too. 1 buy a plenty through heavy rain to my tromme. of the hinterland is billets In the sweepstakes, but none On being below I did look to see perity these drastic measures at home,
dependant to a greater or lesser come up nor my through numbers, some decorations on the Schools but not whether I dislike found none anywhere save maybe and know extent upon the respect paid to a Linstead more than Mr. Davis at a certain Girls' school where they
wide even more of the venerated snurlan at fixed or
contrary wise. All this after throw
windows that doc reveal such strange device. Being come to my of the offen by a quarter ufter eight of
of
a
may be
habitants of the Chinese littoral.
intervals. One of these periods, and one, too, which is widely
festival of no
to
21st-Up very betimes and to my office where I order my purers but Lord to see how careless men bee of procedure in these days. so that
yuen-po
cor-
the
my
con
the
The question of the moment, Japan wants no repetition of the however, ix whether this Shansi fiasco, where she gained recognition by Japan of the much territory only to lose it gravity of her position in China when she was forced to recall observed is that known in the invoking the "dragon king," clock I dec ses from my Verandah is not somewhat belated. On troops from that area to fling Cantonese vernacular as Shui- The paraphernalia, employed in "Rorquat" off Queen's pier, flying the face of it she appears to into the Shantung lines,
| lung-wong-taan or "Birthday of the worship consists of course not only her ordinary jack and en- The new Cabinet can be ex-the Dragon have done well and with her
King." This of the usual adjuncts on similar sign but also a second ensign
what did seem to my eyes the tip. оп the 28th day of occasions of ceremony such as of the periscope, but in any case it enormously superior mechanical peeted to do its utmost to retain occurs
fourth moon, and is the red tapers, the sheets of was the most lofty portion of equipment and gun-power, com- the ground already won in China the
or "imitation. paper boat. Anon comes His Excellency bined with an unchallengable and to press the invasion further, accordingly a
little interest. This birth- money", etc. There are, how- and to see in her, the first time as I verlly belleve that a governor fleet's effective support, has It is not improbable, according to
day fete of the ruler of genus ever, two or three variations
hath gone out in a submarine. In beaten the Chinese armies back the opinion of Governments draco fell on yesterday, and was which stand out in the memory the newes sheetes more than one from the coast everywhere but overseas, that Japan may pay celebrated by the rural folk of the onlooker, one of which is letter to say it should have been in the south. Her troops have more attention to South China, throughout the province with the use of paper yi-chi or "fac-bombs and not,, leaflets that the Chinese planes iropped on Osaka. penetrated deep into the interior. That, too, would be a logical the customary display of pious simile of garments for the use But Lord! the fools doo forget that
mighty difference there is
of The achievements
the move in such a war as this. fervour that is so characteristic of the dragon king," which are of
of the Chinese masses every burned as offerings. Another weight between bombs and leaflets invading forces should satisfy Whatever are the plans, China
is the curious, but extremely and I doubt the radius of flight with is sufficient to come the most exacting public. But must be prepared for the most
The ritual observed in the logical custom of offering ducks a carge of bombs
bce a return is to bee made. Home. in spite of the victories, Japan serious phase of the entire war. realises that the end is not yet It will take Japan a little time worship of the "dragon king" is instead of the customary fowls nigh Japan, or anything like it. So Chinese explanation being holiday for some folk, though I did Probably, too, nho to muster for the final effort, and similar to that employed on as at other sacrifices to the gods, to my nuncheon this day boing o
other occasions, although there the in sight.
25th-The weather still pretty foul for before then China must make a are differences in some of the an extremely practical one that not leave my office this forenoon. recognises the necessity
For instance, inasmuch as the "dragon king" pouring reinforcements into strong bid for victory over the minor details.
bec to God the pence Europe China to retain the gains in adversaries at present within the sacrifices are invariably held dwells in the watery depths, the there is a drizzle. Little newes the her reach. It appears Marshal out of doors, the worshippers the feathered offerings should comes from the war, though thanks. Shantung, and to hundreds of miles of railroad Chiang realises this. He is betaking themselves to the near- be aquatle birds. Other offer seems a little safer. This evening wood these three years, and Lord! which, returning to Chinese making a good fight of it on the est body of running water, such ings include prawns, lotus roots, I did play at lawn-bowls, it being pork, without what fob Idk iako of it! Home upon the shore at improvised dishes of roast
no Chinese sacrifice. is where I dined with my children and hands, would largely undo all Lunghai railway and if, indeed, as some retired cove, and there and of course, the ubiquitous the first time I have sent down a friend of theirs, and so to bed. that such generals as Doihara Lanfeng has been recaptured, it altars, perform the simple but which and Terauch! have accomplished, I may be a sign of a turning tide.extremely dignified ceremony of deemed complete.
hold
where.