320
MESNY'S CHINESE MISCELLANY.
The total strength of the regiment is thus: One Colonel, one Second-Major, two Captains, four Lieutenants, four Sub-Lieutenants, two Sergeants, four Corporals, two Lance Corporals and about 650 to 700 men.
The strength of this regiment is, however, very much increased by over one hundred and thirty gun-boats and a score or so of old ones. Each new gun-boat is manned by one officer and nine men on a peace footing, to which are added one officer and five men in times of war. The old gun-boats have two officers and over twenty men each, and some of them cruise down in the neighbourhood of the Bogue Forts.
The new gun-boats thus give a complement of 1,300 officers and men in times of peace and over 2,000 in times of war, to be added to the strength of the above naval regiment, besides a proportionate number of commissioned officers.
1439. PAN FEI-A favourite concubine of Tung Hun Hou, the last but one of the Sovereigns of the Ch'i dynasty, A.D. 499-501.
The practice of cramping the feet of Chinese girls is ascribed to her by some writers. Mayers says: "She is celebrated for her beauty and grace, and it is related of her (but on untrustworthy grounds) that the practice of artificially cramping the feet was introduced under her auspices See Yao Niang. Her imperial lover is said to have uttered one day, when gazing at her performances in the dance upon a platform ornamented with golden lilies the amorous expression: 'Every footstep makes a lily grow!' and hence the term Chin Lien metaphorically used for the feet of women is said to have taken its rise. In allusion to the same traditions the expression Lien Kou (lily hooks) is also applied in celebrating this charm of woman-kind." The term Chin Lien really means Golden Lotus, not Golden Lilies, frequently translated by foreign writers, and in like manner means the term Lien Kou Lotus Hooks. I have often heard the nicely cramped feet of women described as I tui lien hua, i.e., a brace or pair of lotus flowers.
1440. CHOU TICH CHÈN : The battle name of Chou-han the malicious. The rabid anti-foreign Hu-nan man, who has done so much harm to China and to the Chinese by stirring up animosity against foreigners instead of friendliness, adopted as a battle name the characters Tich-chen, which means True as Iron, or "True as steel" Chou Han has now fallen, and is ruined, and he is bound to die a miserable death, like everybody else who gets in the way of Christian progress. The following two characters-Tich-chen —may now be substituted for the two so boastfully selected by himself.
Hu-nan is bound to be opened to foreign trade and friendly intercourse with foreign nations. No mortal man even yet kicked against Christianity without hurting himself. Chou Han is as good as dead, or he ought to be dead.
1441. AI YEH -The leaves of Artemisia Moxa, q.v. This is considered a lucky plant. On the fifth day of the fifth moon every family gets a few leaves to hang over the house doors. When dry and rubbed up it answers the purposes of punk or tinder, and may be lighted with flint and steel by striking fire over the punk in the usual manner. It is also burnt to drive away insects, or mosquitoes at least, and is very useful as such.
1442. I-TS'AO-Healing Herbs, Medicinal Herbs, Drugs, Artemisia Moxa, q.v.
1443. AI-HO-Punk made from the dry leaves of the Artemisia Moxa, q.v., and used as a cautery in various cases of disease, and burning the scars seen on the head of all properly initiated Buddhist priests. Each scar represents a vow to abstain from evil and perform good deeds.
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Jan. 9th, 1896.
320
MESNY'S CHINESE MISCELLANY.
The total strength of the regiment is thus: One Colonel, one Socond-Major, two Captains, four Lieutenants, four Sub-Lieutenants, two Sergeants, four Corporals, two Lance Corporals
and about 650 to 700 men.
The strength of this regiment is, however, very much increased by over one hundred and thrity gun-boats and a score or so of old ones. Each
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The gun-boats have two officers and over twenty men each, and some of them cruize down in the neighbourhood of the Bogue Forts.
The new gun-boats thus give a complement of 1,300 officers in times of peace and over and may 2,000 in times of war, to be added to the strength of the above naval regiment, besides a propor- tionate number of commissioned officers.
1439. PAN FEI-A favourite con- cubine of Tung Hun Hou, the last but one of the Sovereigns of the Chidynasty, A.D.
499-501.
The practice of cramping the feet of Chinese girls is ascribed to her by some writers. Mayers ays: "She is celebrated for her beauty and grace,
and it is related of her (but on untrustworthy grounds) that the practice
the practice of artificially cramping the feet was introduced under her auspices See Yao Niang. Her imperial lover is said to have uttered ono day, when gazing at her performances in the dance upon
a platform ornamented with goldon lilies tho mpturous expression: "Every footstep makes a lily grow!" and hence the term Chin Lien me- taphorically used for the feet of women! is said to have taken its rise. In allusion to the sanie traditions the expression Lien Kou (lily hooks) is also applied in celebrating this charm of woman-kind." The term Chin Lien really means Golden Lotus, not Golden Lilies, frequently translated by foreign writers, and
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the term Lien Kou Lotus Hooks. I have often heard the nicely cramped feet of women described as I tui lien hua #7, i.c., a brace or pair of lotus flowers.
1440, CHOU TICH CHÈN k th: The battle name of Chou-han the malicious. The rabid anti-foreign Hu-nau man, who has done so much harm to China and to the Chinese by stirring up animosity against foreigners instead of fricudliness, adopted as a battle name the char- acters Tich-chen, which means True as Iron, or "Tric as steel" Chou Han has now fallen, and is ruined, and ho is bound to die a miserable death, liko everybody else who gets in the way of Christian progress. The following two char- acters-Tich-chen —may now be substituted
for the two so boastfully selected by himself.
Hu-nan is bound to be opened to foreign trade and friendly intercourse with foreign nations. No mortal inan even yet kicked against Christ- ianity without hurting himself. Chou Han is as good as dead, or ho ought to be dead.
1441. AI YEH -The leaves of Arte- nisia Moxa, q.v. This is considered a lucky plant. On the fifth day of the fifth moon every family gets a few leaves to hang over the house dloors. When dry and rubbed up it answers the purposes of punk or tinder, and may be lighted with flint and steel by striking firo over the punk in the usual manner. It is also burnt to drive away insects, or mosquitos at least, and is very useful as such.
1442. I-TS'AO-Healing Herbs, Mede- cinal Herbs, Drugs, Artemisia Moxa, q.v.
1443. AI-HO-Punk made from the dric leaves of tho Artemisia Moza, q.v., and used as a cautery in various cases of disease, and burning the scars seen on the head of all properly initiated Buddhist priests. Each scar represents a vow to abstain from evil and perform good deeds.
A full Index will be issued every Six Months.
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