1929-02-15 — Page 8

TUNG SHING

Dealer in

JADE STONES, JEWELLERY, SILK SHAWLS & ÍVORY WARE

also

GOLD & SILVER SMITH, WHOLESALE & RETAIL:

QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL (next door to Queen's Treatre.) HONG KONG.

IN AND AROUND HONG KONG

(Continued from Page 1.)

THE CHINA MAIL SPECIAL

TOURISTS”: SUPPLEMENT.

ANCIENT CHINESE CURRENCY

Demand Drafts Nearly 2,000 Years Agö

note started from "Fel Chdažų or "Aying money"

Tang of the

the Dynasty and "chinotie Sung Dynasty, no sample of which can, however, at premat vi found. During the Sung Dynasty notes were extensively printed with no adequate reserve for the issuanc

found every←

“FLYING MONEY" OF TANG DYNASTY Paper notes were

on

limited to

the

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1929.

WHILE

HONG KONG

buy the

OVERLAND

CHINA MAIL

To send to your friends at Home.

Sa, Wyndham St.

where, for buying daily necessities, paying taxes, and defraying publič expenses, in fact, for all sorts of Lecturing at the Rotary Club at rency known, the coin being in the purposes until the value of notes the Astor House Hotel recently, shape of a shovel. This was fol-dropped to about one per cent. Rotarian Mr. K. P. Hu of the Pe-lowed by "Dau Pl," or knife cur-The ill effect of the notes, however, rency, the coin being in the shape did not became serious as the de king-Mukden Railway gave a most interesting address Chinese of a knife, another of the most nomination was Coine and Currency. He supple-commonly used implements for "Kwan" or one thousand cash only. During the Chin Dynasty, about mented his remarka with several harvesting grain and for general

One end of the coin was a the beginning of the thirteenth cen- valuable specimans of ancient coins. use. and photographic remnants of old round ended handle with a hole in tury notes with denominations such as one hundred, four hundred, one currency notes. Among the latter the centre to facilitate tying to- was an imprint of an old draft,gether and the other end a knife thousand "Kwan," or one million bearing a chop signifying that it blade. This explains why the cash, were issued. Ten years later wan payable on demand at Chengtu, Chinese character "L" standing the value of the notes dropped to Nanking, and one other city, and for profit is composed of two char- such an extent that notes with ag "Kwan," or 120 billion cash, were is much to entertain, amuse and the variety of outdoor sport to be carrying a warning that fraudulent acters knife and a grain, and also gregated face value of 120 million

the coin took the instruct without resort to vehicles. Indulged in or watched, the prin- limitation of these drafta rendered has the meaning of sharpness. As worth only one tael of syces! The

Happy the guilty party liable to capital time went on

fore, had nothing on China!! Thia- The Chinese curio shops and Indian cipal ground being at

Ming Dynasty stores cannot well be passed over Valley, which can be reached in a punishment and offering a reward form of the round end with the modern mark and rouble, there- During the Yuan Dynasty, about by those in search of novelty or for very short time by tramcar, taxi- 300 "Kwan" to those giving in handle omitting the blade. a souvenir of their visit to this en-cab, or motor car, not to mention formation of such forgery. Mr. evolved into the round coin with a

rency made of metal of the size in use, to the present day. This 1280, a certain amount of reserve There is "China the slower jinrikisha if tima is nou also exhibited a form of cursquare hole, which form has been Town, toeming with thousands of object. There is a fine Racecourse, and shape of an old-fashioned key, has been called "Chuan Pl," or was provided for the issue of notes.

where

This, he sald, spring currency, signifying the re-Consequently the currency system races are held at various but minus teeth. Chinese living in narrow streets

was used as a draft as early aa semblance between the currency was greatly improved. Toward the where one can almost stretch hands periods from the middle

"thoroughfare," and ruary to the beginning of Decem-the days of Christ. This imple- and the spring water which la sup-end of the Dynasty, however, owing the

ment was engraved with a number posed to flow continuously without to extensive military operations, so noross

many notes were issued that notes at of characters, some of them in interruption. where glimpses may be had of ber.

Of other sports to be had

As business grew and travelling with the face value of 60 taela typical Chinese.life in all its varied,

Happy Valley, there are football gold, in order to prevent imitation. phases.

and Rugby codes), The draft was bought in one city became more frequent the demand would not buy ten lbs. of rice.

Very few notes were issued dur- of visiting as The and payment was returned on pre- for the medium of exchange in- ("soccer"

creased. Carrying of coins became cricket, baseball, and tennis. "home" of local cricket is the Hong sentation in another city. Kong Cricket Club opposite Murray manufacture of this currency was clumsy and inconvenient, and some

Paper Notes Barracks in Queen's Road. It is very complicated and ordinary per substitute had to be sought.

"interportsons could not do it, this ground that on matches are played, teams coming once in two years from Shanghai and less frequently from Malaya.

chanted Isle.

tera of Aberdeen and Applichau.

of Feb-

Sign For Profit

The

Mr. Hu sald that in the ancient daya China was essentially an agri- cultural country, consequently the principal assets of the people were are many farming implements.

the

•

Tel. C. 22.

"FIVE DRAGON TEMPLE'

Giant Brass Image

A KOWLOON CITY PLACE OF WORSHIP

"Five Dragon Temple" at Kow-fed great divine prodigy on differ loon City is well worth the trouble ent occasions, and much more in It contains many the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. When the Emperor Shai Tso of ed his capital at Peking, he re- vealed the

appearance of his the Yuan Dynasty first establish-

Divine Tortolae and Snake on the Ko Leung river in the 12th moon

foundation of the Sung Dynasty. of the year, prophesying the A temple was therefore built for.

Seventy-four years his worship, the Yan Chung Dynasty he again later, on a "Tin Shau" festival in showed his appearance in Mo Tung Hill.

Kam Luk Temple Therefore, the Kam Luk Temple was built, and the Five Dragon Monastery was renovated to make offerings to him every year. In Lok of the Ming Dynasty, grest the years of the Emperor Wing development was again made to this Temple and Monastery. In the record of the Mo Tung Hill

A good combination is a bus or

ing the Ming Dynasty and the only objects of interest to the Euro- drive to Aberdeen motor car

scroll in English which gives the the Hung Wu period. (already referred to) and a tour through the Chinese fishing village.

samples left were printed during pean. Hanging on the wall is a There were no notes issued dur-history of the glant "Chan Mo" If time permits there is also a

It was suld in one of the Con-ing the first part of the Manchu or "Pak Tai" as it is known in Hthe hamlet, Applichau,

The military operation the vernacular, an image over 500 quaint

few

fucian Classics that as early as the Dynasty. which can be reached In

The return

first part of the Chow Dynasty, against the Tal Ping Rebellion dur-years old reposing on the altar of minutes by Bampan.

about 1,000 B.C., a kind of currency ing 1860 necessitated the printing honour.

Mr. Tsang Foo, the local coal- journey from Aberdeen can be made

Where to Dine or Stay. by launch, In which case the scenery

For the tourist cooped up at sea

note consisting of a piece of cloth of notes both in tael and in cash, In the pro-two inches wide by two feet long, The relative values of the notes merchant is mainly responsible fringing the harbour approaches will be found very refreshing after for days on end there

as shovels, spades, ec., formed the wat used. Probably this was the be equivalent to one tael in notes. purchased the brass idol from the spell through the Chinese quar-facilities for lunch (or tifin)cess of bartering, implemente such chopped with a Government Seal, were so fixed that 200 caab would for the temple's erection, having

and dinner, including

in Fedder principal medium of exchange, sarliest form of currency note over The Government banks at Amoy, Canton and supervised the build- Foochow, and Tientsin were first to ing outside his villa and school. used in China. "Taan Pl," or shovel currency, was

Although A typical example of foreign in- Re- Crawford's For the Individual who cares not Hong Kong Hotel

Land

But the actual use of the paper circulate these notes. therefore the earliest type of cur-

the notes were supposed to be legal fluence in Chinese life is notice- for the joys of motoring a casual Street;

Road

tender, even the Government taxable in Mr. Tsang's house which walk through the heart of the citystaurant, in Des Voeux

bureaux were unwilling to accept adjoins the temple. The grounds will reveal much of interest in the (along which the tramcars run);

of the Canton River, with the ruins of them. Then the Government had contain buildings of strictly Chin- way of publie buildings and statues, the King Edward Hotel, the Savoy including-although some way out Hotel, and the Alexandra Restaur-Ancestral Temples, Temples

type while a Chinese pond has. the Univaralty of Hong Kong. aut in Ice House Street (directly the 500 Genli, City of the Dead, the San Paulo, Camoes' Gardens to fix a percentage at which the ese type and the semi-European

feather, Work-Jade, and Grotto, and Fan-tan Gambling taxed amount could be paid in

Paintera, Saloonia,

notes. Even for this the public did two foreign-style rowing boats in picture There are taxicabs and jinrikishas, opposite the Star Forry wharf). Kingfisher'a

Jade Stone Pagoda, not to mention sedan chairs, but in also the Kowloon Hotel and the Ricepaper

Kowloon Flowery

Steamers save Hong Kong on not want to accept notes. Officials it and the garden has a wind- In Hotel the case of the two latter the legal Peninsula

the Street, Old Embroidery Shops and week days at 8 am and 2 pm, tried to doctor the issue and mer driven water condenser made in

Illinois, US.A. · and Macao at 8 am, and 2 pm. chants manipulated the exchange of fare should always be ascertained

Sai Hing Street, etc. the

There are images worked in Single journeynotes to get profit. The value of beforehand

otherwise 28

Passage 4 hours.

notes dropped. Foreign merchants "stranger within the gates", may

$4 and return $7. And himself the victim of profiteer-

on the other hand bought the netes brass of a tortoise and a anake

All this was at a great discount to pay the per- which represent the deities who great, divine and awe-inspiring. Ing."

centage of import taxes allowed carry out God's benevolent orders. Under him peace prevailed at the owing to the help of Chan Mo, by regulation. The Government That the natives of Kowloon at-home and abroad. bureaux had to accept. It was said tach much importance to that, principally through these temple is evident from the large who came down to guide the 6 Armies of the Emperor. To manipulations, one clerk in the incense containers. bestowed in

award his services, great repairs Ministry of Finance, while having the place of worship.

were made to his Temples. Then an official salary of 30 or 40 taeis,

prosperity reigned throughout the Empire; and the power of the Em- Squeeze Stopped owned property worth 50 to 60

Indeed the different milliona

peror was extended to the farthest country. temples built in honour of Chan Mo were as numerous as stars in This shows that the the sky."

was mora worship of this god

Chair and Jinrikisha Fares For chairs the tariff is two bearers-15 cents for the first tan minutes; 20 cents for a quarter of an hour; 30 cents for half an hour; and 25 cents for every subsequent hour. For four bearers the fares are exactly double, with the excep- tion that every subsequent hour after the first is charged 40 cents.

Jinrikisha charges are: 10 cents for 10 minutos; 20 cent for a quarter of an hour, 30 cents for half an hour; and 40 cents for an hour.

Kowloon and New Territories A

reference to Kowloon has already been made in the third of the suggested tours-namely, to Castle Peak, Fanling, Taipo and Shatin.

(a few minutes' drive from Ferry in a jarikisha).

In Des Voeux Road and other many Chinese streets there are restaurants for those who like to sample Chinese dishes.

For the guidance of those whose time is limited, the following itinerary is given.

(about)

11 to 12 p.m. first class

to

There is also a special excursion Macao every Sunday leaving One Whole Day in Canton Leave Hong Kong

... 10 p.m. Hong Kong at 9 am, returning at Miscellaneouts Information

7 to 8 a.m. Office Arrive Canton

3.30 p.m., return fare $5; week-end The

Telegraph Radio

4.80 pm.excursion, return fare $6.00. (above the Post Office in Fedder Leave Canton Street) is open day and night for Arrive Hong Kong the transmission and reception of

The fare provides radio messages and for reporting

The travel tickets, breakfast, lunch and vessels entering the harbour. charge to most vessels is 30 cents dinner, service of competent pri- for sightseeing by per word with a minimum charge vate Guide

sedan chair to City of the Dead. of $3.

There are branches of the East-Elowery Pagoda, Ancestral Temple,

Extension, Telegraph Com-etc. pany and the Northern Telegraph Company

ern

Moars of longer duration and in Connaught Road including passage by 8 am, steamer Fares of ap- (facing the water front and just may be arranged. beyond the Hong Kong Club). plication. These are open day and night for the transmission of cablegrams to any part of the world.

MACAO

A Portuguese Colony and the

Cable rates are: To Europe via Suez, $1.65 per word; to America, pioneer settlement of the Far East, $1.70 to $2.30; to Canada, $1.90 to being founded in 1657. It is a picturesque spot at the mouth of $2.30; and to Australia, $1.35.

Four

per

Travellers cheques can be cash- ed and payments made on letter! of credit issued by other bankers, by Messrs. Thomas Cook and Spo, the CPR, and the American Ex-

A good afternoon's outing can be spent at Kowloon City, omnibuses to which run from the Star Ferry at Kowloon Point (10 centa fare The postage rates are: from Hong Kong to Kowloon). En cents per ounce to British terri- route a glimpse is afforded of the tories and China; 10 cents whole of the Kowloon Bay, with ounce to America and other for- Lycemoon Pass in the distance.

eign countries. Eventually the granite wall of tire old city of Kowloon will be reached, containing the old-time residence of the official representa- tive of the Emperor of Chine.

There is also a School for the preau Co. Blind, where dainty articles may The principal exchange banka be purchased.

are: The Hong Kong and Shang- Returning by - bus marked hai Banking Corporation, Charter- "Yaumati" the tourist can alighted Bank of India, Australia, "and in Jordan-road and spend an enjoy- China, the Mercantile. Bank of able time in King's Park, where are India, the Banque de T'Indo-Chine, laid out football, tennis, and bowls and the City National Bank of New Banking (International grounds for various Clubs and York

rsituated In institutions.

As an alternative a visit may be Queen's Road Central, commended to Kowloon Tong, For other useful information which lies of the main bus and concerning Hong Kong the tourist motor road in Kowloon, namely, may be recommended to purchase Nathen Road. This is destined to a copy of the "Dollar, Directory"" be a modal settlement and garden published at 3a, Wyndham Street. city combined, and

the self-

Corporation)-all

CANTON

The commercial Capital

And

-21700

contained houses, each with a strip of garden, are a distinct change from the row upon row of flats which the

In most dateresting City of South vehicles pas

in direct Nathan and other roads in Kow- China,

munication with Hong Kong .loon.

Lovers of lawn bowls are well by steamer railway, catered for... Besides the rinks of are daily, services of steamers the Club de Recreio at King's Park both directions. The Journey is there are bowling greens at the about 615 to 8 hours by steamer, Kowloon Bowling Green Club, in according to steamer and tide, and Austin Road (off Nathan Road); 4 hours by train.

There

the Kowloon Cricket Club, and the On arrival in Canton visitors are Kowloon Dock Tennis can be had met by an experienced and combat at many Club courts at King'sent guide who has conducted the Park, at the United Services Club principal visitors through this f (opposite King's Park) the Kow-cinating City for many years. The loon Cricket Club, and the Kow- tour usually embraces Chun-ka-chí loon Bowling Green Club Football

is played at King's (Park" and on

the ground of the Kowloon Football

Club. facing the

Chatham Road, Cricket is pro

ed at: King's Park and at the

loon Cricket Club.

Spor

"On the nat

SWATOW DRAWN WORK CO.

14 Pedder Sh

(next to the

HONG KONG HEIGHTS For the information of visitors the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:---

Eland. Victoria Peak Signal Station

Fect.

1823

Mt. Parker

Mountain Lodge'

The Eyrie

Peak Hotel

Taikoo Sanatorium

1774 1734 1725 1725 1305 1000

Mt. Davis ..kana

-877

Bowen Road (filterbeds)

297

Mainland

Taimoshan Kowloon Peak

"Feet, 8124 1971

*

"Chan Mo" Below we give an interesting translation:-

History of the brass image of It was not until the Government the god "Chan Mo" in the Five had bought back the notes at a fix-Dragon Monastery.

ed price that this system of squeeza "Mr. Tsang Shiu-wing allas from these manipulations stopped.

WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF CHINESE LACQUER WORK.

by Wong To-kwan, will be found

the following quotations:-"Power-

ful is Emperor Shing Tea. He la

zealous in the Sung Dynasty than in the reign of Yuen, and there- fore his temples could be found everywhere in the Empire.

Made At Peking

Since the introduction of modern Tsang Foo bought the image af banking, more emphasis, was laid Canton for a sum of $1,200. It on the reserve, the printing, and measures 8 feet high, and weighs issuance. With the exception of over 1,000 cattles. At the left of are inscribed the 18 the panic of 1916 the large Govern- its robe ment Bank notes were reldom quot characters, "Yam Chai Tak. Li

This brass image was manufac- Kwong Tung Chu Chi Shi Pok d at a discount.

Rotarian Young thanked Mr. Ha Kim Kun Im" (Imperial Inspector tured under the supervision of a in behalf of the Club for his ad- General of Canton Shipping and native of Ta! Hing of Shun Tin. dress.

Salt Commissioner), but the part From this we can tell that it was beneath this has been torn away.made at Peking and during the At the right corner are found the Dynasty of Wing Lok. The date 17 characters, "Tai Ming Man Lik Kwai Man of the Emperor Maù Sam Shap Yat Nia Shul Chi Kwai Lik inscribed thereon is the date of the erection of the Temple and Man Kwai Chau Kat Yat Kin" (manufactured on a lucky day in not the date of the manufactura The Imperial - the 9th moon of the Kwai Mau of the image. year, le, the Thirty-First year of spector-General of Canton Ship- Man Lik of the Great Mingping and Salt Commissioner en- the image, was the Dynasty). On the back of the graved on Image there are 21 characters in bailder of the Temple, but unfor 8 rows, which read thus:-"Pak tunately his name has been torn King Shun Tin Fu Tel Hing Yuen off. However, during the Dynasty Cheung Chiu Wong Tso Kun Tao of Shan Chung many servants of Chu Chi To Shi Tong To Char" the Imperial Household were sent (manufactured under the super-out to make heavy levies on the vision of Cheung Chin and Wong income of merchants, and from Tao of the Tai Hing District of this we can deduce that the image the Shun Tin Prefecture, Peking was brought to Kwong Tung from and Tong To Chan, the Priest in Peking by one of such servants, Charge). The image was the pro-and was enshrined in a temple at of the perty of the Sze Tat Shim Lam Canton after the name Monastery, and that it fell into manufacturer and the date of the hands of some ordinary in manufacture had been engraved dividuals after the political change on it. 4T

Alas! over 500 years have elaps

In the San Hol year. On refer- ence to some Taalat Authorities, ed since the Wing Lok Dynasty. It has been found that "Chan Mo" The image was removed from was born in the 3rd moon of the Peking to Canton, and again from 3rd year of the Emperor. Hol of a Taoist Temple. Into a Buddhist the Teul Dynasty. He was born Monastery and just some time ago. a divine sage. He took oath to it had a narrow escape from b remove all evil spirits, and to pro- ing destroyed. Can it be the case tect the people. He gave up his that even a lifeless object has its ecoular iffe, and took up the study time of prosperity and misfortune?

of Taoism. Aftor pursuing ble The Temple

Now Mr. Teang having obtain study in Mo Tang Hill for 49 years, be succeeded in becoming ed the Image, has erected a an immortal. He took the North temple for it at Kowloon under under bis protection. He showed the name of the Five Dragon his appearance on the solicitation: Temple the very original name of

of any man, and suppressed any the Monastery from which It evil spirit when asked to. He came. This history is written for came down among the people the advice of those who may wor every Kang San or Kap, Tst day ship the god and pray him to re-

7th day to remove any cause of misfortune.

and

It is

here Char

of misfortune

Annals of the Echolar.

the True Retired

loon on the 18th

don pl the Yani Bhul