Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 17, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
NANCY
BUT I DID, TRY TO
JOIN ARMY..
BUT THEY
WOULDN'T.
TAKE
ME!
WELL
TRY A
DIFFERENT
RECRUITING
OFFIEE!
OH, PLEASE.. YOU KNOW HOW I LOVE MEN IN UNIFORMS!
AWRIGHT!
I'LL WAIT, HERE··· AND READ WHILE YOU'RE IN THERE,
SLUGGO!
O.K.
Cope, Milky t'kisid Pintere Benkleste, Red,
NEW HOSTESSES ASSIGNED
TO CAMP SPUDD
CHILDREN'S
ASUN SUITS
WE HAVE A
VARIED SELECTION
FROM WHICH TO
CHOOSE,
news.
One-Third of the Human Race Eats
RICE
By T. Paul Gregory
many parts of the Asiatic lit-
Helpers at the recently-opened “fair price” depot in the Central Market, which is one of many centres where rice is being sold at Government prices. These depots have served to break profiteering by dealers. (Photo: Ming Yuen).
THE PRESENT becomes the familiar paak- Actually, the amount of rice SHORTAGE OF faan of the daily Chinese grown in the Middle Kingdom RICE in Shanghai and the menu, taking the place of is hardly sufficient for its teem- ing millions of consumers but, decision of this Colony to bread..
strangely enough, much is ex- supply the northern port As rice may be prepared ported as a luxury grain to have concentrated public at- for the table in so many toral. Thus it happens that the tention on the problems con- varied ways, it is probable Chinese farmer family growing nected with China's staff of that one could partake of a rice often cannot afford to ent life. As the staple food- different form of it every the produce of its own paddy. stuff of at least one-third of day for several months and fields but has to depend on the the human race, it is inevi- yet not exhaust the resource- sustenance.
cheaper imported product for table that anything. con- fulness of the Chinese chef. nected with its scarcity, No wonder the. Cantonese tung three main qualities of In the province of Kwang- increase in price or abnor- aver that life without it is rice are grown, the best being THOSE WHO HAVE a treadle. The action of the mal market demand should not worth living, and even produced in the Shatin district WITNESSED the spec- descending pestle serves to at once become front-page designate those who have of the New Territories. In tacle of Chinese peasants har- polish the grain, and the pro- rice have re- cess is hastened by the employ- passed on into eternity as deed, so superior is the Shatin vesting their Rice constitutes a larger m-shik Kwongtung mai, that product that it was formerly marked at the simple yet highly ment of powdered chalk. After included in the annual tribute effective methods employed. being sufficiently polished, the part of the diet of the Asiatic is, "no longer eating Kwang- dispatched to the Emperor at These
are the fruits of rice is emptied into a large sieve masses than the product of tung rice!"
Peking!
long generations of agri- und the dust shaken off, leaving cultural tradition, and like the grain clean, and whilė. any other one plant. It is,
Although practices vary in most of the primitive pro-. different parts of the province, cesses of the countryside, still the Chinese staff of life. In a bound up with the daily life NO ONE KNOW'S who the sewing of the paddy fields linger on in first introduced the rice usually
this disturbed nation, where so many of its and customs of the people plant into China. A tradition February or early March, and the methods used is the thresh cerned with the rice problem, it commences in Inte twentieth century era. Among population are so, gravely con- that it is probable that all relates that the grain reached transplanting of Orientals have a different the Middle Kingdom from India shoots takes place
the tender ing of the rice with the fa-woh- is understandable how the com- about a p'aung, or bamboo flail. This mon greeting to friends should word for almost every about the time of the semi- month later. By late June the consists of a handle of bamboo long ago have become the fami- particular form of mythical Emperor Shen Nung rice is ready for harvest, and about six feet in length, with liar shik-chok faan mei ah- This is especially true of the (B. C. 2838-2698), but there is shortly thereafter the fields are flails made of several short have you eaten your rice yet?" a probability that rice has been prepared for the second sowing. pieces of the same material Indeed, this salutation sums up Cantonese, who call the cultivated in the monsoon re- Thus two crops are usually ob- mounted side by side on a kind in a few words the paramount young shoots
or sprouts gions of Asia since remote au- tained before November.
of horizontal spindle near the importance of the cereal grain young, the plant while grow- tiquity.
end. A jerk of the long handle to the Chinese masses. ing woh, and the unhulled The rice of China is noted for
causes the flails to revolve, and grain kuk. The cleaned its fine quality, and may be
the apparatus is brought downj grain forms the paakmai readily distinguished from that
imported from
moreover,
commerce.
intimately
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every
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The-husk-is-removed-by-an-
THE RICE HARVEST is with a resounding thwack onj
of the happiest the ears of rice to be threshed." (literally "white rice") of Siam, which forms the bulk of times of the Chinese rural year
When boiled it that offered in the market, and is the occasion of great ac other equally simple process.
tivity. The heart of peasant rejoices,
This is done by passing the rice and aged grandmothers croon rustic dit- through a rustic "mill" con- ties to the children in celebra structed of wood and operated tion of the ripened field:
by a push-bar. Even in those districts where modern rice hulling machinery has been in stalled many of the conservative peasantry still prefer to hul their rice in the old-fashioned way.
The depots have been besieged daily by hundreds. Below, Above, an interesting picture of the customers. prospective purchasers queucing up to pay money. They get receipts in return, which they exchange at another counter for parcels of different quantities made up con- veniently. (Photos: Ming Yuen).
"Ho woh ah!
Ho saang-lci ah!
Kat-Isai kira moon-mei. Fan-trai chan foon-hei; Wok-keng taai yne lei. Wok-yip tuai yne chau, Taui-yan chan foon-hei, Siu-yi si-hei-hei!"
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An elderly Sussex woman Is using odd pieces of firewood and old rags to make into expensive- looking dolls for children who have lost their homes in the bombing of London and other
For the winnowing of the big cities. grain, most Chinese farmers Carefully sewing the rags which may be somewhat freely follow the age-old method of around the firewood and then "translated:
letting a quantity fall from a painting in the features, pho "A good rice harvest (signi- height for the wind to blow off has already made many dolls.
Jics)
for children good business to the chaff. Winnowing machines] some everyone!
of a primitive pattern are also evacuated from the Channel
Islands. Hang up the tangerines above used in some districts.
the door,
Young and old are truly
happy.
*
The paddy stalks are as big THE FINAL PROCESS
68 pears,
of preparing the rice for domestic use is that of The paddy leaves are as large polishing. In muny rural
as boats,
The grown-ups
are
of them
Many people are learning to dye and spin the hair from their logs' coats into wool to knit into comforts.
Оле woman weaves these wools into cloth, which she then has made into costumes and skiris.
Another woman has a hobby of households this is stil making things out of rubbish. From truly done by use of the ch'ung-hom, all types of waste; such as fish bones, And the youngsters giggle de- works a heavy pestle, raised by ari'icial flowers, blotters and toys.
a large stone mortar in which fult stones and pickings from the waste paper basket, eho has made lightedly!"
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